Contest
['kɒntest] or [kən'tɛst]
Definition
(noun.) a struggle between rivals.
(noun.) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants.
(verb.) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; 'They contested the outcome of the race'.
Typist: Thaddeus--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
(v. t.) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
(v. t.) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.
(v. i.) To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.
(n.) Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
(n.) Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.
Typed by Freddie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Dispute, controvert, argue, debate, litigate, contend against, call in question.[2]. Strive to hold, struggle to defend.
v. n. Contend, strive, struggle, vie, fight, compete, cope.
n. [1]. Dispute, altercation, debate, controversy, contestation, quarrel, difference, high words, strife of words, war of words.[2]. Struggle, battle, conflict, fight, combat, encounter, rencounter, strife in arms.
Checker: Zachariah
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CONTEND]
[See CONTENTION]
Inputed by Gretchen
Definition
v.t. to call in question or make the subject of dispute: to strive for.—n. Con′test a struggle for superiority: strife: debate.—adj. Contest′able.—ns. Contest′ant one who contests; Contestā′tion the act of contesting: contest: strife: emulation.—p.adj. Contest′ed.—adv. Contest′ingly by contest.—Contested election an election for a member of parliament or the like where more than one competitor offer themselves.
Editor: Olivia
Examples
- SNOWED UP When Ursula and Birkin were gone, Gudrun felt herself free in her contest with Gerald. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I send it you now, because I apprehend some late accidents are likely to revive the contest between the two countries. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The contest,' said Pott, 'shall be prolonged so long as I have health and strength, and that portion of talent with which I am gifted. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The contest in Europe from the fourteenth century onward therefore was a three-cornered contest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All the troops in service could be brought to the front to contest every inch of ground threatened with invasion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- An explosion of a smouldering volcano long suppressed, was the result of an internal contest more easily conceived than described. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There is the width of the track, and it was only after a long and expensive contest that countries and corporations settled upon a uniform gauge. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- By eleven o'clock the skirmishing had grown into a hard-contested battle. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The English played well, but the Americans played better, and contested every inch of the ground as strongly as if the spirit of '76 inspired them. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- 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.
- Like most all valuable inventions, Mr. Bessemer’s claim to priority for the invention was contested. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He has fought successfully two contested elections, and has come out of the ordeal unscathed. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Thus, in 1893, the litigation was reopened, and a protracted series of stubbornly contested conflicts was fought in the courts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These contests served to bring out the failures, and the still-existing wants in this line of machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He was ready to go back to old times, and commemorate the contests of our fathers, and the monarch's abdication. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then came many public trials and contests between rival manufacturers and inventors. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The litigation on the Edison lamp patents was one of the most determined and stubbornly fought contests in the history of modern jurisprudence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Into all contests requiring athletic skill and courage, the young man, from his boyhood upwards, had flung himself with all his might. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Bell's machine, previously described, and Hussey's and McCormick's were the principal contesting machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The fact that assumption plays a large part in our mental attitude toward practical affairs should make us wary of contesting the legitimacy of scientific hypo theses. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typist: Morton