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Inroad vs Onset - What's the difference?

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Inroad is a related term of onset.


As nouns the difference between inroad and onset

is that inroad is an advance into enemy territory, an incursion, an attempted invasion while onset is a rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.

As verbs the difference between inroad and onset

is that inroad is (obsolete|transitive) to make an inroad into; to invade while onset is (obsolete) to assault; to set upon.

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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    onset

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.
  • * (rfdate) (William Shakespeare),
    • The onset and retire / Of both your armies.
  • * (rfdate) (William Wordsworth),
    • Who on that day the word of onset gave.
  • (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
  • (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
  • (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
  • (obsolete) A setting about; a beginning.
  • * (rfdate) (Francis Bacon),
    • There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
  • (obsolete) Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}
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    Verb

  • (obsolete) To assault; to set upon.
  • (obsolete) To set about; to begin.

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    * English irregular verbs