Forcing vs Oppress - What's the difference?
forcing | oppress |
(horticulture) The art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed
(photography) An extension in the development time of an underexposed negative in order to bring out detail
(set theory) A technique used to prove the consistency of certain axioms in set theory. See .
(climatology, countable) The net flux of energy in or out of a system; the net change in an energy balance.
(obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
* , II.x:
To keep down by force
To make sad or gloomy
As verbs the difference between forcing and oppress
is that forcing is present participle of lang=en while oppress is physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.As a noun forcing
is the art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed.forcing
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* radiative forcingVerb
(head)oppress
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(es)- Most mercilesse of women, VVyden hight, / Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse , / And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse.
- The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.
- We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.