Cramp vs Pain - What's the difference?
cramp | pain |
A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
* Sir T. More
That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
* L'Estrange
* Cowper
A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
(of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
To prohibit movement or expression.
* Layard
To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
* Ford
To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp.
(by extension) To bind together; to unite.
* Burke
To form on a cramp.
(countable, and, uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.
(countable) An annoying person or thing.
(uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
Labour; effort; pains.
To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
(obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
As nouns the difference between cramp and pain
is that cramp is a painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled while pain is .As a verb cramp
is (of a muscle) to contract painfully and uncontrollably.As an adverb pain is
towards, in/to the direction of.cramp
English
(wikipedia cramp)Noun
(en noun)- The cramp , divers nights, gripeth him in his legs.
- A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.
- crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear
Derived terms
* brain cramp * cramp ring * writer's crampVerb
(en verb)- You're cramping my style.
- The mind may be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.
- You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
- when the gout cramps my joints
- The fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
- to cramp boot legs
References
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English
Noun
- The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain .
- I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
- In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
- The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
- Your mother is a right pain .
- You may not leave this room on pain of death.
- Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. — Dryden
- We will, by way of mulct or pain , lay it upon him. — Bacon
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "pain": mild, moderate, severe, intense, excruciating, debilitating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, steady, throbbing, stabbing, spasmodic, etc.Synonyms
* (an annoying person or thing) pest * See alsoAntonyms
* pleasureHyponyms
* agony * anguish * pang * neuropathic pain * nociceptive pain * phantom pain * psychogenic painDerived terms
* pain in the arse * pain in the ass * pain in the back * pain in the bum * pain in the butt * pain in the neck * painkiller * painyVerb
(en verb)- The wound pained him.
- It pains me to say that I must let you go.