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Sabotage vs Knockdown - What's the difference?

sabotage | knockdown |

As nouns the difference between sabotage and knockdown

is that sabotage is while knockdown is an act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.

As an adjective knockdown is

powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down.

sabotage

Noun

(-)
  • A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
  • (military) An act or acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of a country by willfully injuring or destroying, or attempting to injure or destroy, any national defense or war materiel, premises, or utilities, to include human and natural resourcesJP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms ..
  • Verb

    (sabotag)
  • to deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful
  • The railway line had been sabotaged by enemy commandos
  • * 2014 , , " Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
  • Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.

    See also

    * terrorism

    References

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    knockdown

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
  • An overwhelming blow.
  • (genetics) A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that has been made less active or had its expression reduced.
  • (genetics) The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
  • (nautical) The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
  • (soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=January 29 , author=Chris Bevan , title=Aston Villa 3 - 1 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Pires, a three-time Cup winner with Arsenal who scored the Gunners' winner against Southampton in the 2003 final, has been a largely peripheral figure at Villa Park since joining in November - but the 37-year-old rolled back the years with a fine finish from Delfouneso's knockdown . }}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down
  • reduced in price
  • Derived terms

    *knockdown-dragout