Foreboding vs Tension - What's the difference?
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A sense of evil to come.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
An evil omen.
Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
Condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other
Psychological state of being tense.
(physics, engineering) State of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
(physics, engineering) Force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions on'', ''in'', or ''of , e.g., "The tension in the cable is 1000 N", to convey that the same magnitude of force applies to objects attached to both ends).
(physics, engineering) Voltage. Usually only the terms low tension, high tension, and extra-high tension, and the abbreviations LT, HT, and EHT are used. They are not precisely defined; LT is normally a few volts, HT a few hundreds of volts, and EHT thousands of volts.
To place an object in tension, to pull or place strain on.
Foreboding is a related term of tension.
As nouns the difference between foreboding and tension
is that foreboding is a sense of evil to come while tension is tension.As an adjective foreboding
is of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.As a verb foreboding
is .foreboding
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Alternative forms
* forboding (much less commonly used)Noun
(en noun)- A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
Synonyms
* auguryAdjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)tension
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
- We tensioned the cable until it snapped.