Conflict
['kɒnflɪkt] or ['kɑnflɪkt]
Definition
(noun.) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); 'the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph'--Thomas Paine; 'police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs'.
(noun.) an incompatibility of dates or events; 'he noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings'.
(noun.) opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; 'he was immobilized by conflict and indecision'.
(noun.) opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot); 'this form of conflict is essential to Mann's writing'.
(noun.) a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests; 'his conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post'; 'a conflict of loyalties'.
(verb.) be in conflict; 'The two proposals conflict!'.
(verb.) go against, as of rules and laws; 'He ran afoul of the law'; 'This behavior conflicts with our rules'.
Edited by Laurence--From WordNet
Definition
(v.) A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
(v.) A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.
(v. i.) To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide.
(v. i.) To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.
(v. i.) To be in opposition; to be contradictory.
Typist: Nicholas
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Clash, be contrary, be opposed.
n. Struggle, encounter, contest, combat, battle, fight, collision, strife in arms.
Checker: Nanette
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Encounter, engagement, contest, battle, fight, combat
ANT:Reconciliation, pacification, amity, arbitration
Typist: Shelby
Definition
n. violent collision: a struggle or contest: a battle: a mental struggle.—v.i. Conflict′ to fight: contend: to be in opposition: to clash.—adj. Conflict′ing clashing: contradictory.—n. Conflic′tion.—adj. Conflict′ive tending to conflict.
Checked by Archie
Examples
- For an hour I have heard the sounds of conflict within the palace. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The sounds of conflict, the clash of arms, the shouting and the hurrying of many feet came to us from various parts of the temple. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- One of the fundamental problems of education in and for a democratic society is set by the conflict of a nationalistic and a wider social aim. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It signifies, he intimated, bloodshed and civil conflict. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Out of experience come warrings, the conflict of opinions and acts within the individual and between individuals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was a fight to the death between them--or to new life: though in what the conflict lay, no one could say. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is possible that the question of a conflict between races may come up in the future, as did that between freedom and slavery before. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The economic conflicts are at once raised to a plane of research, experiment and honest deliberation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When a government routine conflicts with the nation's purposes--the statesman actually makes a virtue of his loyalty to the routine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I summoned all the resolutions I had made, in all those many days and nights, and all those many conflicts of my heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Foreigners entered the country, and conflicts between them and Japanese gentlemen of spirit ensued. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They went on to exhausting conflicts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She was as blind to his inward troubles as he to hers: she had not yet learned those hidden conflicts in her husband which claim our pity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Edison's claims were strenuously and stubbornly contested throughout a series of intense legal conflicts that raged in the courts for a great many years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A party that tried to answer every conflicting interest would stand still because people were pulling in so many different directions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Conflicting sensations of love, fear, and shame reduced Eustacia to a state of the utmost uneasiness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Now much disturbed, and dazzled with conflicting gleams of hope and dread, I looked at her for some explanation. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The battleship and one form of cruiser were evolved from the conflicting opinions of two opposite schools of design. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Are or are not our interests conflicting? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Hears I have conflicting interests, claims clashing against his and what not. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The motives of those who supported this step were conflicting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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