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Inroad vs Infiltration - What's the difference?

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Inroad is a related term of infiltration.


As nouns the difference between inroad and infiltration

is that inroad is an advance into enemy territory, an incursion, an attempted invasion while infiltration is the act or process of infiltrating, as of water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body.

As a verb inroad

is (obsolete|transitive) to make an inroad into; to invade.

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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    infiltration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of infiltrating, as of water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body.
  • The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body.
  • * Kirwan
    • calcareous infiltrations filling the cavities
  • The act of entering a physical location and/or organization secretly.