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Inroad vs Penetration - What's the difference?

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Inroad is a related term of penetration.


As nouns the difference between inroad and penetration

is that inroad is an advance into enemy territory, an incursion, an attempted invasion while penetration is penetration.

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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    penetration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of penetrating something.
    • Any penetration , however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense.
  • Specifically, the insertion of the penis (or similar object) during sexual intercourse.
  • The act of penetrating a given situation with the mind or faculties; perception, discernment.
  • * 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , XVI:
    • my observations of her looks and actions became acutely sharpened, and that to a degree which, notwithstanding my efforts to conceal it, could not escape her penetration .
  • A number or fraction that represents how many cards/decks will be dealt before shuffling, in contrast to the total number of cards/decks in play.

    • Derived terms

    * double penetration * interpenetration