Narrowing vs Stricture - What's the difference?
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The part of a stocking that is narrowed.
* 1858 , Margaret Maria Gordon, Household economy (page 60)
(usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action
a sternly critical remark or review
(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
(obsolete) strictness
(obsolete) a stroke; a glance; a touch
(linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants
Narrowing is a related term of stricture.
As nouns the difference between narrowing and stricture
is that narrowing is the part of a stocking that is narrowed while stricture is (usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action.As a verb narrowing
is .narrowing
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(head)Noun
(en noun)- It may be observed, as a general rule, that the length of a stocking, before the narrowings , should be, at the least'', equal to ''twice the width of the top...
stricture
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Noun
(en noun)- For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.
- A man of stricture and firm abstinence. — Shakespeare.