Seizure vs Apprehension - What's the difference?
seizure | apprehension |
The act of taking possession, as by force or right of law.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter VII
A sudden attack or convulsion, (e.g. an epileptic seizure).
A sudden onset of pain or emotion.
(obsolete) retention within one's grasp or power; possession; ownership
* Dryden
That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.
(rare) The physical act of seizing]] or [[take hold, taking hold of; seizure.
* 2006 , Phil Senter, "Comparison of Forelimb Function between Deinonychus'' and ''Babiraptor'' (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridea)", ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 26, no. 4 (Dec.), p. 905:
(legal) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
* 1855 , , North and South , ch. 37:
The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
* 1815 , , "On Life," in A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays (1840 edition):
Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
* 1901 , , Penelope's English Experiences , ch. 8:
The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
* 1854 , , Hard Times , ch. 7:
Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.
* 1846 , , Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life , ch. 32:
As nouns the difference between seizure and apprehension
is that seizure is the act of taking possession, as by force or right of law while apprehension is the physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.seizure
English
Noun
(en noun) (Search and seizure) (wikipedia seizure)- the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.
- The search warrant permitted the seizure of evidence.
- As yet there had been no alarm of fever. The three seizures had excited some comment, however, and had it not been for the counter-excitement of the burning ship, it is possible that Pine's precaution would have been thrown away
- He fell to the floor and convulsed when the epilectic seizure occurred.
- He felt the sudden seizure of pain as the heart attack began.
- Make o'er thy honour by a deed of trust, / And give me seizure of the mighty wealth.
apprehension
English
Noun
(en noun)- The wing would have been a severe obstruction to apprehension of an object on the ground.
- The warrant had been issued for his apprehension on the charge of rioting.
- We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life.
- We think we get a kind of vague apprehension of what London means from the top of a 'bus better than anywhere else.
- Strangers of limited information and dull apprehension were sometimes observed not to know what a Powler was.
- Every circumstance which evinced the savage nature of the beings at whose mercy I was, augmented the fearful apprehensions that consumed me.