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Stricture vs Pinching - What's the difference?

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Stricture is a related term of pinching.


As nouns the difference between stricture and pinching

is that stricture is (usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action while pinching is the act of one who or that which pinches.

As an adjective pinching is

that pinches, or causes such a sensation.

As a verb pinching is

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stricture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action
    • 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 sternly critical remark or review
  • (medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
  • (obsolete) strictness
    • A man of stricture and firm abstinence. — Shakespeare.
  • (obsolete) a stroke; a glance; a touch
  • (linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants

    • Related terms

    * constriction * strict * stringent

    pinching

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That pinches, or causes such a sensation
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
    • It was one January morning, very early — a pinching , frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who or that which pinches.
  • * 2012 , Paul Theroux, The Lower River
    • Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings , such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.