Setback vs Blowback - What's the difference?
setback | blowback |
An obstacle, delay, or disadvantage.
(US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
(architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.
(possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
(firearms) A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.
An unintended adverse result, especially of a political action.
(slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
As nouns the difference between setback and blowback
is that setback is an obstacle, delay, or disadvantage while blowback is a type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.setback
English
Noun
(en noun)- After some initial setbacks , the expedition went safely on its way.
- Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.