Ossify vs Entrenched - What's the difference?
ossify | entrenched |
(ambitransitive) To transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals.
* 1884 , Arthur C. Cole, Studies in Microscopical Science ,
(ambitransitive, animate) To become (or cause to become) inflexible and rigid in habits or opinions.
* 1996 , , The Art of the Long View , p. 96,
* 2006 , Michael S. Jones, Metaphysics of Religion: Lucian Blaga and Contemporary Philosophy , p. 79,
(ambitransitive, inanimate) To grow (or cause to grow) formulaic and permanent.
* 1886 , ,
* 2001 , , translated by Kevin O'Neill and David Suchoff, The Wisdom of Love , p. 55,
* 2005 , Michelle Goldberg, "
(rare) To calcify.
* 1850 , ,
(entrench)
(construction, archaeology) To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
(military) To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
(figuratively) To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
* Senator Cornpone was able to entrench by spending millions on each campaign.
* 2013 September 28, , "
To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on'' or ''upon .
* John Locke
To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
As verbs the difference between ossify and entrenched
is that ossify is (ambitransitive) to transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals while entrenched is (entrench).ossify
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(en-verb)p. 35,
- , nor do all bones of the same skeleton ossify during the sam? period of time.
- Before long, the entire organization ossifies .
- Possession of absolute knowledge would ossify the human spirit, quenching human creativity;
- This accidental repartition gets repeated, develops advantages of its own, and gradually ossifies into a systematic division of labour.
- Now, in turn, we apply a revolutionary critique that ossifies into a rhetoric to become "the monstrous Latin of a monstrous church."
The war on 'Munich'", Salon.com , December 20, 2005,
- [T]he charge threatens to ossify into conventional wisdom before the movie's audience can get to theaters to see how misguided it is.
- The cartilages become brittle, and in many instances are ossified ; the ligaments are rendered harder, but are less capable of resisting extension.
Synonyms
* (become inflexible and rigid) hardenentrenched
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(head)entrench
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(es)- The army entrenched''' its camp, or '''entrenched itself.
London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.
- We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children.
- It was this very sword entrenched it.
- His face / Deep scars of thunder had entrenched .