Tenacity vs Defence - What's the difference?
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The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
* 2009 , ,
The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; – as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, – usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.
* Shakespeare
Something used to oppose attack(s).
* 1592—1609 , , Sonnet XII:
An argument in support or justification of something.
* 1592—1609 , , Sonnet LXXXIX:
A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
* Sir W. Temple
(obsolete) To furnish with defences; to fortify.
* Hales:
As nouns the difference between tenacity and defence
is that tenacity is the quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose while defence is the action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.As a verb defence is
(obsolete|transitive) to furnish with defences; to fortify.tenacity
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Noun
(tenacities)PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster
- — Our opponents may be younger, faster and less out of shape than we are, but we have something they’ll never have!
- — Tenure?
- — Tenacity!
Synonyms
* (state of being tenacious) retentiveness, persistency * (quality keeping bodies together) cohesiveness * (quality making bodies adhere) adhesiveness, viscosityAntonyms
* (quality keeping bodies together) brittleness, fragility, mobilitydefence
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Alternative forms
* defense (US )Noun
(en noun)- In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh / The enemy more mighty than he seems.
- And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
- Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
- Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,
- Against thy reasons making no defence .
- Department of Defence
- Severe defences against wearing any linen under a certain breadth.
Synonyms
* SeeAntonyms
* offence (Commonwealth), offense (US)Derived terms
* antidefence, antidefense * ecodefence, ecodefense * Nuremberg defence, Nuremberg defense * defensive * defensivenessVerb
(defenc)- Better manned and more strongly defenced .