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Curtain vs Repress - What's the difference?

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Curtain is a related term of repress.


As nouns the difference between curtain and repress

is that curtain is a piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc to offer privacy and keep out light while repress is the act of repressing.

As verbs the difference between curtain and repress

is that curtain is to cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains while repress is to press again.

curtain

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
  • *
    • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
  • A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
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  • (label) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
  • * , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220:
    • Captain Rense'', beleagring the Citie of ''Errona for us,.
  • Death.
  • * 1979 , (Monty Python), (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)
    • For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.
  • (label) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
  • A flag; an ensign.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * curtain call * curtain-raise * curtain-raiser * final curtain

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.

    • See also

    * blind * drape * (wikipedia "curtain")

    repress

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The act of repressing.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To press again.
    • to repress a vinyl record
  • To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
  • *to repress sedition or rebellion
  • *to repress the first risings of discontent.
  • Hence, to check; to keep back.
  • * Milton
    • Desire of wine and all delicious drinks, / Thou couldst repress .

    Synonyms

    * (forcefully preventing an upheaval from developing) to crush out; to quell; to subdue; to suppress * (to keep back) to restrain; to hold back

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