Stricture vs Squeezing - What's the difference?
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(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
The act of pressing; compression.
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(chiefly, in the plural) That which is forced out by pressure; dregs.
Stricture is a related term of squeezing.
As nouns the difference between stricture and squeezing
is that stricture is (usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action while squeezing is the act of pressing; compression.As a verb squeezing is
.stricture
English
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.
squeezing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Starting at the point of shoulder, use muscle squeezings , picking-ups, kneadings and gentle frictions, interspersed with effleurages, over the triceps muscle as well as the fleshy part of the flexor and extensor muscle groups.