cold vs pressor

pressor vs cold

cold and pressor both are nouns.

cold and pressor both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cold	Yes	Yes	No	No
pressor	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, pressor is a hypernym of cold; that is, pressor is a word with a broader meaning than cold:

cold: the absence of heat
pressor: any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure

Other hypernyms of cold include vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor, temperature.

cold (noun)	pressor (noun)
the absence of heat	any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure
the sensation produced by low temperatures
a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)

cold (adjective)	pressor (adjective)
having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration	increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure
extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
(color) giving no sensation of warmth
lacking the warmth of life
of a seeker; far from the object sought
without compunction or human feeling
so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
marked by errorless familiarity
having lost freshness through passage of time
unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
feeling or showing no enthusiasm
sexually unresponsive
lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new

Difference between cold and pressor

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