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Tension vs. Suspense

Tension and Suspense Definitions

Tension

The act or process of stretching something tight.

Suspense

Anxiety or apprehension resulting from an uncertain, undecided, or mysterious situation
The suspense as they were announcing the winners was unbearable.

Tension

The condition of so being stretched; tautness.

Suspense

The quality in a work of narrative art, such as a novel or film, that causes the audience to experience pleasurable excitement and anticipation regarding an outcome.

Tension

A force tending to stretch or elongate something.

Suspense

(Archaic) The state or quality of being undecided, uncertain, or indecisive
The suspense of judgment.
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Tension

A measure of such a force
A tension on the cable of 50 pounds.

Suspense

The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.

Tension

Mental, emotional, or nervous strain
Working under great tension to make a deadline.

Suspense

The pleasurable emotion of anticipation and excitement regarding the outcome or climax of a book, film etc.

Tension

Barely controlled hostility or a strained relationship between people or groups
The dangerous tension between opposing military powers.

Suspense

The unpleasant emotion of anxiety or apprehension in an uncertain situation.
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Tension

A balanced relation between strongly opposing elements
"the continuing, and essential, tension between two of the three branches of government, judicial and legislative" (Haynes Johnson).

Suspense

(legal) A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.

Tension

The interplay of conflicting elements in a piece of literature, especially a poem.

Suspense

A deadline.

Tension

A device for regulating tautness, especially a device that controls the tautness of thread on a sewing machine or loom.

Suspense

(obsolete) Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
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Tension

(Electricity) Voltage or potential; electromotive force.

Suspense

(obsolete) Expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.

Tension

To subject to tension; tighten.

Suspense

Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
[The great light of day] suspense in heaven.

Tension

The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.

Suspense

Expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.

Tension

Psychological state of being tense.

Suspense

The state of being suspended; specifically, a state of uncertainty and expectation, with anxiety or apprehension; indetermination; indecision; as, the suspense of a person waiting for the verdict of a jury.
Ten days the prophet in suspense remained.
Upon the ticklish balance of suspense.

Tension

A feeling of nervousness, excitement, or fear that is created in a movie, book, etc.; suspense.

Suspense

Cessation for a time; stop; pause.
A cool suspense from pleasure and from pain.

Tension

State of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.

Suspense

A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.

Tension

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).

Suspense

Apprehension about what is going to happen

Tension

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.

Suspense

An uncertain cognitive state;
The matter remained in suspense for several years

Tension

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

Suspense

Excited anticipation of an approaching climax;
The play kept the audience in suspense

Tension

The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.

Tension

Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort.

Tension

The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length; strain.

Tension

The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight.

Tension

A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness.

Tension

Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger space; elastic force; elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the tension of air.

Tension

The quality in consequence of which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity upon a given area.

Tension

Feelings of hostility that are not manifest;
He could sense her latent hostility to him
The diplomats' first concern was to reduce international tensions

Tension

(psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense;
He suffered from fatigue and emotional tension
Stress is a vasoconstrictor

Tension

The physical condition of being stretched or strained;
It places great tension on the leg muscles
He could feel the tenseness of her body

Tension

A balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature);
There is a tension created between narrative time and movie time
There is a tension between these approaches to understanding history

Tension

(physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body;
The direction of maximum tension moves asymptotically toward the direction of the shear

Tension

The action of stretching something tight;
Tension holds the belt in the pulleys

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