Interpose vs Impose - What's the difference?
interpose | impose | Related terms |
To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
* Cowper
* Shakespeare
To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
* Cowper
To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.
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.
Interpose is a related term of impose.
As verbs the difference between interpose and impose
is that interpose is while impose is .interpose
English
Verb
(en-verb)- to interpose a screen between the eye and the light
- Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations.
- What watchful cares do interpose themselves / Betwixt your eyes and night?
- (Milton)
- long hid by interposing hill or wood.
Synonyms
* insert * (To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment) interruptAnagrams
* ----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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