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Dog vs Inertia - What's the difference?

dog | inertia |

As nouns the difference between dog and inertia

is that dog is a mammal, canis lupus familiaris , that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding while inertia is (physics|uncountable|or|countable) the property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.

As a verb dog

is to pursue with the intent to catch.

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    inertia

    Noun

  • (physics, uncountable, or, countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
  • (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
  • * Carlyle
  • Men have immense irresolution and inertia .
  • * 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, " Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
  • City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent, and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.
  • (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
  • Synonyms

    * (unwillingness to take action) idleness, laziness, sloth, slothfulness

    Derived terms

    * inertial * inertia welding * moment of inertia