Hindrance vs Imp - What's the difference?
hindrance | imp |
Something which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else.
The state or act of hindering something
(obsolete) A young shoot of a plant, tree etc.
* Sir Orfeo , 69:
(obsolete) A scion, offspring; a child.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:
* Fairfax
A young or inferior devil; a malevolent supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less powerful.
* Beattie
A mischievous child.
* 1908 ,
(UK, dialect, obsolete) Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, such as an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; or a length of twisted hair in a fishing line.
(obsolete) To plant or engraft.
(archaic) To graft, implant; to set or fix.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.9:
*:That headlesse tyrants tronke he reard from ground, / And, having ympt the head to it agayne, / Upon his usuall beast it firmely bound, / And made it so to ride as it alive was found.
(falconry) To engraft feathers into a bird's wing.
To eke out, strengthen, enlarge.
As a noun hindrance
is something which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else.As an initialism imp is
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Alternative forms
* hinderance (archaic) * hindraunce (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- High-heeled shoes may be fashionable, but they can also be a hindrance to walking.
- Your hindrance of this process will not be tolerated.
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Noun
(en noun)- Þai sett hem doun al þre / Vnder a fair ympe-tre.
- And thou most dreaded impe of highest Ioue'', / Faire ''Venus sonne, [...] come to mine ayde [...].
- The tender imp was weaned.
- to mingle in the clamorous fray of squabbling imps
- I've left my young children to look after themselves, and a more mischievous and troublesome set of young imps doesn't exist...
Synonyms
* (mischievous child) brat, urchin, little dickensDerived terms
* impish * implikeVerb
(en verb)- "For, if I imp my wing on Thine" – Herbert (1633)