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Worry vs Tension - What's the difference?

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Worry is a related term of tension.


As nouns the difference between worry and tension

is that worry is a strong feeling of anxiety while tension is tension.

As a verb worry

is to seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.

worry

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
    • Your dog’s been worrying sheep again.
  • To harass; to irritate or distress.
    • The President was worried into military action by persistent advisors.
  • Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.
    • Your tone of voice worries me.
  • To be troubled, to give way to mental anxiety.
    • Stop worrying about your test, it’ll be fine.
  • (transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To strangle.
  • To cause concern or anxiety.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.}}

    Synonyms

    * (trouble mentally) fret

    Noun

    (worries)
  • A strong feeling of anxiety.
  • :
  • An instance or cause of such a feeling.
  • :

    • Derived terms

    * worried * worrisome

    tension

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other
  • Psychological state of being tense.
  • (physics, engineering) State of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
  • (physics, engineering) Force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions on'', ''in'', or ''of , e.g., "The tension in the cable is 1000 N", to convey that the same magnitude of force applies to objects attached to both ends).
  • (physics, engineering) Voltage. Usually only the terms low tension, high tension, and extra-high tension, and the abbreviations LT, HT, and EHT are used. They are not precisely defined; LT is normally a few volts, HT a few hundreds of volts, and EHT thousands of volts.

    • Related terms

    * tensional * tensile

    Verb

  • To place an object in tension, to pull or place strain on.
    • We tensioned the cable until it snapped.

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