Challenge
['tʃælɪn(d)ʒ] or ['tʃælɪndʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a demand by a sentry for a password or identification.
(noun.) questioning a statement and demanding an explanation; 'his challenge of the assumption that Japan is still our enemy'.
(noun.) a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror.
(noun.) a call to engage in a contest or fight.
(noun.) a demanding or stimulating situation; 'they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power'.
(verb.) raise a formal objection in a court of law.
(verb.) ask for identification; 'The illegal immigrant was challenged by the border guard'.
(verb.) issue a challenge to; 'Fischer challenged Spassky to a match'.
(verb.) take exception to; 'She challenged his claims'.
Checker: Wilmer--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
(n.) The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
(n.) A claim or demand.
(n.) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
(n.) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.
(n.) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
(n.) To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.
(n.) To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.
(n.) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
(n.) To censure; to blame.
(n.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"
(n.) To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
(n.) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.
(n.) To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.
(v. i.) To assert a right; to claim a place.
Typed by Angelo
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Defy, dare, brave, invite to trial, call to combat, call to answer.[2]. Demand, require, claim, call for.[3]. (Law.) Object to, take exceptions to.
n. [1]. Defiance, summons to trial, call to combat, call to answer.[2]. (Law.) Exception, objection.
Checker: Mollie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Defy, summon, dare, question, investigate, brave, canvass
ANT:Pass, allow, grant, concede
Edited by Craig
Definition
v.t. to call on one to settle a matter by fighting or by any kind of contest: to claim as one's own: to accuse; to object to.—n. a summons to a contest of any kind but esp. a duel: a calling of any one or anything in question: exception to a juror: the demand of a sentry.—adj. Chall′engeable that may be challenged.—n. Chall′enger one who challenges to a combat of any kind: a claimant: one who objects calls in question.
Checked by Bryant
Unserious Contents or Definition
If you are challenged to fight a duel, you will become involved in a social difficulty wherein you will be compelled to make apologies or else lose friendships. To accept a challenge of any character, denotes that you will bear many ills yourself in your endeavor to shield others from dishonor.
Inputed by Emilia
Examples
- Mr. Bennet accepted the challenge, observing that he acted very wisely in leaving the girls to their own trifling amusements. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- All at once, in the midst of his turbulent emotions, Bradley stopped and seemed to challenge his look. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Edison has said that he never saw a statement in any book as to such things that he did not involuntarily challenge, and wish to demonstrate as either right or wrong. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Then thou dost persist in thy refusal to confess thy guilt, and in that bold challenge which thou hast made? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- To the scientists it would be a challenge--to bring these facts under the light of their researches, to extend these researches to the borders of those facts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In one group, it may be met by recourse to fisticuffs, in another by a challenge to a duel, in a third by an exhibition of contemptuous disregard. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He felt the challenge in her very attire-she challenged the whole world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Hears his number called, hears himself challenged, hears the rattle of the muskets, hears the orders 'Make ready! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In fear that this subterfuge might be challenged, he gave Benjamin a discharge of his indentures, but at the same time s igned with him a new secret contract. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He felt the challenge in her very attire-she challenged the whole world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Andreu Nin had challenged at the government position. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This part of his teaching was soon challenged. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I may not deny what thou hast challenged, said the Grand Master, provided the maiden accepts thee as her champion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Ahead of him now at the top of the ridge was the government position where he knew he would be challenged. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Criticism and argument were again at their height, while Upton, as Edison's duellist, was kept busy replying to private and public challenges of the fact. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He waylays the smaller boys to punch their unprotected heads, and calls challenges after me in the open streets. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Those are great challenges for us to decide. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There were some sallies and minor successes, and Antony was loud with challenges to Octavian to decide the matter by personal combat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Whatever they undertake is important, and challenges our attention. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Typed by Floyd