Impose vs Impulse - What's the difference?
impose | impulse |
To establish or apply by authority.
* Milton
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to be an inconvenience
to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
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To practice a trick or deception.
To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
A thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.
* S. Clarke
A wish or urge, particularly a sudden one prompting action.
* Dryden
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(obsolete) To impel; to incite.
As verbs the difference between impose and impulse
is that impose is to establish or apply by authority while impulse is to impel; to incite.As a noun impulse is
a thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.impose
English
Verb
(impos)- Death is the penalty imposed .
- Congress imposed new tariffs.
- Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
- I don't wish to impose upon you.
- Social relations impose courtesy
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Derived terms
* imposition * superimpose * imposureExternal links
* * *impulse
English
(wikipedia impulse)Noun
(en noun)- All spontaneous animal motion is performed by mechanical impulse .
- The impulse to learn drove me to study night and day.
- When I saw the new dictionary, I couldn't resist the impulse to browse through it.
- These were my natural impulses for the undertaking.
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- The total impulse from the impact will depend on the kinetic energy of the bullet.
Derived terms
* impulse buy * nerve impulse * on impulseReferences
* * * [impulse in the Online Etymology Dictionary]
Verb
(impuls)- (Alexander Pope)