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Prying vs Intrusive - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between prying and intrusive

is that prying is the act of one who pries while intrusive is an igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock.

As a verb prying

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective intrusive is

tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without right or welcome.

prying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who pries.
  • * 1992 , Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights (page 280)
    • That it is wrongful to do a thing in that it is grubby in the way in which pryings for the sake of prurient interest are grubby, does not by itself make doing the thing an infringement of a claim.

    intrusive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without right or welcome.
    • Did it ever cross your mind that he might find all those questions you ask intrusive ?
  • (geology) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.

    • Derived terms

    * intrusively * intrusiveness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock

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