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contest 音标拼音: [k'ɑntɛst] [kənt'ɛst] n. 竞赛,争论
vt. 竞赛,争取,争辩
vi. 争夺 竞赛,争论竞赛,争取,争辩争夺 contest n 1: an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants [ synonym: { contest}, { competition}] 2: a struggle between rivals v 1: to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; " They contested the outcome of the race" [ synonym: { contest}, { contend}, { repugn}] Contest \ Con* test"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Contested}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Contesting}.] [ F. contester, fr. L. contestari to call to witness, contestari litem to introduce a lawsuit by calling witnesses, to bring an action; con- testari to be a witness, testic witness. See { Testify}.] 1. To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute. [ 1913 Webster] The people . . . contested not what was done. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this. -- J. D. Morell. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert. [ 1913 Webster] { To contest an election}. ( Polit.) ( a) To strive to be elected. ( b) To dispute the declared result of an election. Syn: To dispute; controvert; debate; litigate; oppose; argue; contend. [ 1913 Webster]
Contest \ Con* test"\, v. i. To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with. [ 1913 Webster] The difficulty of an argument adds to the pleasure of contesting with it, when there are hopes of victory. -- Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster] Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest? -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster]
Contest \ Con" test\, n. 1. Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation. [ 1913 Webster] Leave all noisy contests, all immodest clamors and brawling language. -- I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter. [ 1913 Webster] The late battle had, in effect, been a contest between one usurper and another. -- Hallam. [ 1913 Webster] It was fully expected that the contest there would be long and fierce. -- Macaulay. Syn: Conflict; combat; battle; encounter; shock; struggle; dispute; altercation; debate; controvesy; difference; disagreement; strife. Usage: { Contest}, { Conflict}, { Combat}, { Encounter}. Contest is the broadest term, and had originally no reference to actual fighting. It was, on the contrary, a legal term signifying to call witnesses, and hence came to denote first a struggle in argument, and then a struggle for some common object between opposing parties, usually one of considerable duration, and implying successive stages or acts. Conflict denotes literally a close personal engagement, in which sense it is applied to actual fighting. It is, however, more commonly used in a figurative sense to denote strenuous or direct opposition; as, a mental conflict; conflicting interests or passions; a conflict of laws. An encounter is a direct meeting face to face. Usually it is a hostile meeting, and is then very nearly coincident with conflict; as, an encounter of opposing hosts. Sometimes it is used in a looser sense; as, " this keen encounter of our wits." -- Shak. Combat is commonly applied to actual fighting, but may be used figuratively in reference to a strife or words or a struggle of feeling. [ 1913 Webster] 233 Moby Thesaurus words for " contest": Kilkenny cats, Olympic games, Olympics, abjure, action, altercation, antagonize, argue, argufy, argument, assert the contrary, awake a doubt, bandy words, battle, be contrary to, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be skeptical, be uncertain, beat against, beat up against, belie, bicker, bicker over, bickering, bout, box, brawl, breast the wave, broil, brush, buck, buffet, buffet the waves, call in question, call into question, cat- and- dog life, cavil, challenge, championship, choplogic, clash, close, close with, collide, combat, come to blows, compete with, competition, concours, conflict, confute, contend, contend about, contend against, contention, contentiousness, contestation, contradict, contravene, controversy, controvert, counter, cross, cross swords, cut and thrust, debate, decathlon, deny, derby, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, discept, disclaim, disown, disprove, disputation, dispute, distrust, double- header, doubles, doubt, duel, emulation, encounter, engagement, enmity, event, exchange blows, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, fight against, fight over, fighting, forswear, foursome, gainsay, game, games, games of chance, give and take, give satisfaction, go, grapple, grapple with, greet with skepticism, gymkhana, half believe, harbor suspicions, hassle, have it out, have reservations, hostility, impugn, join battle with, join issue, join issue upon, jostle, joust, labor against, litigation, lock horns, logomachize, logomachy, match, matching, meet, meeting, militate against, misgive, mistrust, mix it up, moot, negate, not accept, not admit, nullify, object to, offer resistance, oppose, oppugn, paper war, pentathlon, pettifog, play, play- off, plead, polemic, polemicize, polemize, proving, quarrel, quarrel over, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, query, question, quibble, race, raise a question, rally, rassle, rebut, recant, refuse to admit, refute, reject, reluct, reluctate, rencontre, renounce, repudiate, retract, revoke, riot, rival, rivalry, run a tilt, runoff, scramble, scrapping, scruple, scuffle, singles, skirmish, smell a rat, spar, sport, squabble over, squabbling, stem the tide, strife, strive, strive against, striving, struggle, struggle against, suspect, take back, take issue with, take on, take sides, test, testing, thrash out, threesome, throw doubt upon, thrust and parry, tilt, tournament, tourney, traverse, treat with reserve, trial, try conclusions, trying, tug- of- war, tussle, twosome, vie with, wage war, war, war of words, warfare, words, wrangle, wrangle over, wrangling, wrestle |
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