Invasion vs Metastasis - What's the difference?
invasion | metastasis |
A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government.
The entry without consent of an individual or group into an area where they are not wanted.
(medicine) The transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body, specifically the development of a secondary area of disease remote from the original site, as with some cancers.
* 1963: Thomas Pynchon, V.
(metaphor) The spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer.
(rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.
As nouns the difference between invasion and metastasis
is that invasion is invasion while metastasis is metastasis.invasion
English
(wikipedia invasion)Noun
(en noun)- an invasion of mobile phones
- an invasion of bees
- an invasion of foreign tourists
Derived terms
* British Invasion * invasion of privacy * invasion stripes * pitch invasionmetastasis
English
Noun
(metastases)- Stayed in her own house, searched her body each morning and examined her conscience each night for progressive symptoms of the metastasis she feared was in her.
