"stricture" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈstɹɪkt͡ʃə/ [UK], /ˈstɹɪkt͡ʃəɹ/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-stricture.wav , En-us-stricture.oga Forms: strictures [plural]
enPR: strĭk'chə [UK], strĭk'chər [US] Rhymes: -ɪktʃə(ɹ) Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin strictūra, from Latin strictus. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*streyg-}}, {{bor|en|LL.|strictūra}} Late Latin strictūra, {{der|en|la|strictus}} Latin strictus Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} stricture (countable and uncountable, plural strictures)
  1. (usually in the plural) A rule restricting behaviour or action. Tags: countable, plural-normally, uncountable Synonyms: constraint, restriction, restraint Translations (rule restricting behaviour or action): ограничение (ograničenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), rajoite (Finnish), rajoitus (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-stricture-en-noun-cl80cnM9 Disambiguation of 'rule restricting behaviour or action': 83 6 2 1 0 5 2
  2. A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-stricture-en-noun-yaJJMceb
  3. A sternly critical remark or review. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (sternly critical remark or review): порицание (poricanie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), moite (Finnish), nuhde (Finnish), суровая критика (surovaja kritika) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-stricture-en-noun-sa~hGGXE Disambiguation of 'sternly critical remark or review': 2 2 87 1 0 6 2
  4. (medicine) Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine Translations ((medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body): تَضَيُّق (taḍayyuq) (Arabic), свиване (svivane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 狹窄 (Chinese Mandarin), 狭窄 (xiázhǎi) (Chinese Mandarin), kurouma (Finnish), ahtauma (Finnish), striktuura (Finnish), étranglement [masculine] (French), rétrécissement [masculine] (French), стриктура (striktura) [feminine] (Russian), estenosis [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-stricture-en-noun-en:medicine Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of '(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body': 1 0 2 92 1 0 3
  5. (obsolete) Strictness. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-stricture-en-noun-tDCLQkA-
  6. (obsolete) A stroke; a glance; a touch. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-stricture-en-noun-3K2AL-pt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 12 16 4 1 38 15 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 15 11 16 5 3 37 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 13 10 14 4 2 35 22 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 11 15 2 1 41 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 18 10 14 8 3 30 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 16 11 17 6 4 32 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 16 11 15 6 4 33 15 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 14 10 18 6 3 34 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 18 13 14 10 3 29 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 13 11 16 5 3 37 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 14 11 17 5 2 39 13
  7. (linguistics) The degree of contact, in consonants. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Linguistics Translations ((linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants): supistuma (Finnish), striktuura (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-stricture-en-noun-1IQ79o4r Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences Disambiguation of '(linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants': 4 3 4 3 1 10 75
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: discipline

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 6, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Even venerable print publications seem to accept that old strictures no longer apply when they move online.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rule restricting behaviour or action."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rule",
          "rule"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(usually in the plural) A rule restricting behaviour or action."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "constraint"
        },
        {
          "word": "restriction"
        },
        {
          "word": "restraint"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "plural-normally",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Elaine Constantine, Gareth Sweeney, Northern Soul: An Illustrated History, Random House, →ISBN, page 12:",
          "text": "For many young people throughout Britain in the 1970s, Northern Soul became a truly alternative lifestyle with the rites and values of the scene replacing many of the traditional strictures of society.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, William Sharp, chapter 2, in Life of Robert Browning:",
          "text": "When he read the poem to his parents, upon its conclusion, both were much impressed by it, though his father made severe strictures upon its lack of polish, its terminal inconcision, and its vagueness of thought.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sternly critical remark or review."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "remark",
          "remark"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Medicine"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter XVIII, in The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Even in the brief moment of his entrance into the magnificence of Anthony Harding's home he had felt a strange little stricture of the throat—a choking, half-suffocating sensation.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body."
      ],
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        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
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          "canal",
          "canal"
        ],
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          "duct",
          "duct"
        ]
      ],
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        "(medicine) Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body."
      ],
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        "en:medicine"
      ],
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:",
          "text": "a man of stricture and firm abstinence",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Strictness."
      ],
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        [
          "Strictness",
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Strictness."
      ],
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        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:",
          "text": "But whatever may be said of other matters , certainly the first draughts and strictures of Natural Religion and Morality are naturally in the Mind",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A stroke; a glance; a touch."
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        "(obsolete) A stroke; a glance; a touch."
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    },
    {
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      "glosses": [
        "The degree of contact, in consonants."
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        "(linguistics) The degree of contact, in consonants."
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        "countable",
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        "UK"
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      "tags": [
        "UK"
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      "ipa": "/ˈstɹɪkt͡ʃəɹ/",
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        "US"
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ograničenie",
      "sense": "rule restricting behaviour or action",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ограничение"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "rule restricting behaviour or action",
      "word": "rajoite"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "rule restricting behaviour or action",
      "word": "rajoitus"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "poricanie",
      "sense": "sternly critical remark or review",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "порицание"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sternly critical remark or review",
      "word": "moite"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sternly critical remark or review",
      "word": "nuhde"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "surovaja kritika",
      "sense": "sternly critical remark or review",
      "word": "суровая критика"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "taḍayyuq",
      "sense": "(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body",
      "word": "تَضَيُّق"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "svivane",
      "sense": "(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "свиване"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body",
      "word": "狹窄"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiázhǎi",
      "sense": "(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body",
      "word": "狭窄"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body",
      "word": "kurouma"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body",
      "word": "ahtauma"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body",
      "word": "striktuura"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "étranglement"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rétrécissement"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "striktura",
      "sense": "(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "стриктура"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "estenosis"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants",
      "word": "supistuma"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants",
      "word": "striktuura"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stricture"
}

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