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Inroad vs Infall - What's the difference?

inroad | infall |

As nouns the difference between inroad and infall

is that inroad is an advance into enemy territory, an incursion, an attempted invasion while infall is the act or process of falling in.

As verbs the difference between inroad and infall

is that inroad is (obsolete|transitive) to make an inroad into; to invade while infall is to fall in.

inroad

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • an advance into enemy territory, an incursion, an attempted invasion
  • * 1776 : Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol 1
    • The brave and active Contsantius delivered Gaul from a very furious inroad of the Alemanni;
  • *1850 , '', ''The present time
  • *:And everywhere the people, or the populace, take their own government upon themselves; and open “kinglessness,” what we call anarchy , […] is everywhere the order of the day. Such was the history, from Baltic to Mediterranean, in Italy, France, Prussia, Austria, from end to end of Europe, in those March days of 1848. Since the destruction of the old Roman Empire by inroad of the Northern Barbarians, I have known nothing similar.
  • * 1910 : G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With The World
    • ... our whole great commercial system breaks down. It is breaking down, under the inroad of women who are adopting the unprecedented and impossible course of taking the system seriously and doing it well.
  • (usually plural) progress made toward accomplishing a goal or solving a problem
  • * 1983 : Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV, episode 1.03)
    • You must have been fairly surprised at Dr. Glaser's inroads into reprogramming the brain.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To make an inroad into; to invade.
    • The Saracens conquered Spain, inroaded Aquitaine. — Fuller.

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    infall

    English

    Noun

  • The act or process of falling in.
  • An incursion; an inroad.
  • (countable) The area where water, storm runoff, etc., enters a storm drain.
  • (astronomy, uncountable) Movement towards a massive astronomical body under the influence of gravity; especially the process whereby gas falls towards a neutron star or black hole at high speed, forming a plasma

    • Verb

  • To fall in.
  • (astronomy) To undergo infall.
  • *1997 , Bo Reipurth, Claude Bertout, Herbig-Haro flows and the birth of low mass stars :
    • After this time the beam mass loss rate decreases since once the expansion wave radius is larger than the beam, material initially outside the beam starts to infall and compensate for material which is collapsing at centre of the core [...]

    Derived terms

    * infalling

    References

    * Urban Exploration Resource

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