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Detract vs Momentum - What's the difference?

detract | momentum |

As a verb detract

is to take away; to withdraw or remove.

As a noun momentum is

(physics) (of a body in motion) the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity.

detract

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To take away; to withdraw or remove.
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  • To take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry.
  • * Drayton
  • That calumnious critic / Detracting what laboriously we do.

    Synonyms

    * defame, decry * See also

    Derived terms

    * detraction * detractor

    momentum

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (physics) (of a body in motion) The tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity.
  • The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events. (i.e: a moment)
  • * 1843, Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Old Apple Dealer", in Mosses from an Old Manse
  • The travellers swarm forth from the cars. All are full of the momentum which they have caught from their mode of conveyance.
  • * 1882, Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower
  • Their intention to become husband and wife, at first halting and timorous, had accumulated momentum with the lapse of hours, till it now bore down every obstacle in its course.
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