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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
combat
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a war/battle/combat zone
▪ Planes were diverted to avoid flying over the war zone.
combat fatigue
▪ These treatment methods enabled 80 percent of combat-fatigue-affected troops to return to duty.
combat troops
▪ Heavily-armed combat troops were deployed on the streets of the capital yesterday.
combat/fight unemployment
▪ The government's first priority is to combat unemployment.
counter/combat a threat
▪ We must work together to counter the threat of state terrorism.
fight/combat an infection
▪ A new drug is being developed to combat the infection.
fight/combat evil
▪ Joan swore to fight evil in all its forms.
fight/combat inflation
▪ An economic plan to combat inflation was drawn up.
fight/combat poverty (=take action to get rid of poverty)
▪ The money should be spent on fighting poverty.
fight/combat terrorism
▪ We will provide the necessary resources to combat terrorism.
fight/combat/tackle crime
▪ There are a number of ways in which the public can help the police to fight crime.
hand-to-hand fighting/combat etc
▪ There was fierce hand-to-hand fighting in the streets of the city.
▪ They were defeated in hand-to-hand combat.
mortal combat (=fighting until one person kills the other)
▪ the screams of men in mortal combat
single combat
▪ He had already defeated an enemy champion in single combat.
tackle/combat pollution (=try to deal with it)
▪ Governments must tackle pollution now.
unarmed combat (=fighting without weapons)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
▪ This gives him an additional +1 attack in close combat.
▪ This survey of personal experiences, ranging from close combat to literary society, constructs a memorable portrait of the last war.
▪ This will get your cavalry into close combat and hopefully out of the hail of missiles fairly quickly.
▪ Warriors fought with bows and arrows for long range and swords and spears for close combat.
▪ Across the river and through the streets of Cliffe men fought in close combat before the royalists scattered.
▪ Unfortunately, in close combat, the rule is straight forward and brutal: the more ranks you have the better.
mortal
▪ Helmeted, armed with long, spear-like boards, the surfers looked like gladiators going out to engage in mortal combat.
▪ A few people close to their chairs amuse themselves by watching the others engage in mortal combat to secure a seat.
single
▪ But surely she owed her beloved that honour at least, the honour of single combat, which is a dragon's privilege.
▪ Finally Turnus and Aeneas meet in single combat.
▪ But that made no difference - he knew he stood no chance against the oriental in single combat.
▪ Two of the enemy, mounted, appeared before them for single combat.
▪ El Cid upholds his honour and that of his King by defeating an enemy champion in single combat.
▪ In all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat.
▪ It was Melwas who suggested single combat.
▪ Urian Poisonblade, the Witch King's personal champion, called out a challenge to single combat.
unarmed
▪ Though Wallace had no training in unarmed combat, the impression remained that he knew all about karate.
▪ Both men, I am assured by your embassy, are trained with weapons and in unarmed combat.
▪ In the West the closed fist is considered almost the only effective weapon to be used in unarmed combat.
■ NOUN
fatigue
▪ The Clash weren't always into combat fatigues.
▪ He had his throng of child beggars with him, and he was still in his combat fatigues.
▪ She wears faded jeans or combat fatigues.
▪ Both men are in combat fatigues.
forces
▪ But as the repression has increased, more women have directly joined the combat forces.
gear
▪ Whipping round, he found himself facing four figures in black military style combat gear and carrying guns and flashlights.
▪ Then a group of paras in full combat gear and blackened faces began firing at us.
hand
▪ In hand to hand combat it would take two, perhaps three, androids to subdue just one of them.
▪ This hand-to-#hand combat remains an important weapon as Iowa prepares for its quadrennial presidential caucuses on Feb. 12.
▪ No one knows the origins of hand-to-#hand combat.
jacket
▪ In the kitchen he put on the combat jacket under his anorak.
▪ My combat jacket, knife, bags, catapult and other equipment I took down to the kitchen with me.
▪ We drove out of the barracks huddled in our combat jackets, and turned north towards the Alps.
▪ He's described as slim, with long black hair, and was wearing a green combat jacket and jeans.
mission
▪ His very first authentic combat mission as commander.
▪ He was nervous and cocky at our briefing, the dashing leader of a combat mission to the dreaded Ia Drang.
soldier
▪ It is no coincidence that combat soldiers, particularly paratroops, wear camouflage uniforms that somewhat resemble a leopard's spotted coat.
▪ Any combat soldier who lived through a good portion of his tour experienced one or more proper fire-fights.
▪ Only a handful of civilians have gone through the sustained physical abuse that was routine for combat soldiers searching for Charlie.
unit
▪ All entered programs for enlisted personnel or non-commissioned officers; it was not known how many would go into combat units.
▪ In practice, combat units were invariably understrength.
▪ The combat unit had sprayed napalm or some napalm analogue into the Silver Shuriken, and he was clothed in fire.
▪ Friedman was a member of a logistics team rather than a combat unit.
▪ Named after famous artillerymen, the larger firebases also served as the field camps for other combat units.
▪ In fact, federal law prohibits women from being in direct combat units.
▪ The battle casualties of the combat units were nearly as bad as those on World War 11 battlefields.
▪ With the combat units dispersed and the opposition extremely difficult to locate, good and timely intelligence was at a premium.
veteran
▪ Ultimately, this work covers issues that combat veterans of any modern war would quickly recognize.
zone
▪ She was actually in the combat zone now and she noted uneasily that once again she was placed firmly beside the count.
▪ You may think so too, Michael, when you ride a Huey into combat zone.
▪ Yuletide in Walford is traditionally a combat zone with crackers, but the soap excelled itself this year.
▪ Later, I found out there were worse duties in a combat zone.
▪ Jean-Pierre said the doctors were considered too valuable to be sent into the combat zone.
■ VERB
engage
▪ Once engaged in hand-to-hand combat in this way the Squig Hopper is pinioned to the ground and does not move away.
▪ A few people close to their chairs amuse themselves by watching the others engage in mortal combat to secure a seat.
▪ He'd jumped down, engaging in combat with a huge Mameluke.
▪ Higher animals also engage in playful combat and other forms of competitive behaviour.
▪ Helmeted, armed with long, spear-like boards, the surfers looked like gladiators going out to engage in mortal combat.
▪ If the target is engaged in hand-to-hand combat the spell will also affect all troops which are fighting against it.
▪ Infantry, he added, deliberately placed themselves in positions where they would be engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
lock
▪ Both are still locked in commercial combat over the lucrative contract to refit Britain's Trident submarine fleet.
▪ Doctors and hospitals, although locked in increasingly venomous combat with insurers, also are mostly opposed.
▪ Since then, the rebels and the armed forces of Sierra Leone have been locked in combat.
▪ In addition, employees are often locked into combat with each other for a shrinking supply of rewards, and even jobs.
▪ He was reminded of Sir Arnold and Jonathan Ram locked in their mental combat.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be locked in battle/combat/dispute etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The truce has not stopped combat in the civil war.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Black has gone out with Doc Martens combat boots, and color has come in.
▪ In all, there are 15 combat missions involving both subs and surface vessels.
▪ Infantry, he added, deliberately placed themselves in positions where they would be engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
▪ Named after famous artillerymen, the larger firebases also served as the field camps for other combat units.
▪ Not only did these men share the hardships of combat, their very survival imbued many with a pre-disposition to paternalism.
▪ Safety cover was to be provided by combat support boats from the Support Squadron.
▪ She was actually in the combat zone now and she noted uneasily that once again she was placed firmly beside the count.
▪ The final version endorsed current Pentagon policy allowing women in combat in certain circumstances, a position endorsed by Dole.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
crime
▪ Breeders have established their own intelligence network in a bid to combat the crime.
▪ Vasconcellos has long argued that to combat crime, the state should attack the root causes, such as low self-esteem.
▪ Murders too were more frequent, and in order to combat the rising crime rate parliament introduced a psychological deterrent.
▪ To combat crime effectively, the police need the full support of the Government and the public.
▪ Tonight he starts his series of reports with a look at how to combat crime.
▪ He supported the demand for private farmers to be allowed the use of firearms to combat rising crime against them.
▪ The long-term strategy to combat knife crimes through schemes like Operation Blade is to achieve a change in the law.
▪ The police are increasingly looking to technology - and to information technology in particular - to help them combat increasing crime.
disease
▪ Vaccination and treatment of animals, and quality control of meat have been used to combat the disease.
▪ The immune system is depressed during such reactions, lowering your ability to combat diseases.
▪ Antibody production occurs naturally when the body's immune system combats disease.
▪ Please help yourself and others to combat this killer disease.
drug
▪ They will vigorously pursue their policies to combat drug trafficking and misuse of drugs, nationally and internationally.
effort
▪ The devotion, care and research taking place in Bristol in the effort to combat these tragedies is uplifting.
▪ The gathering here was the latest in a long line of intergovernmental efforts to combat the menace.
▪ But the effort to combat her own sensual response seemed too much to cope with - slipping away far beyond her reach.
government
▪ Another 186, 000 were involved in training programs and other government programs to combat unemployment.
inflation
▪ Appropriate fiscal policies to combat this demand-pull inflation would be a cut in government spending, or an increase in taxation.
▪ Peso-dollar parity, introduced in 1991 to combat three-figure inflation, is now working against the country's interests.
▪ In order to combat inflation the government imposed strict controls on foreign currency.
▪ Speaking at the end of the two days of talks, Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation.
measure
▪ Austerity measures introduced to combat the continuing economic crisis included cutbacks in the financial privileges enjoyed by government ministers and civil servants.
policy
▪ They will vigorously pursue their policies to combat drug trafficking and misuse of drugs, nationally and internationally.
▪ Let us consider the key elements of any policy to combat age discrimination in employment.
▪ Appropriate fiscal policies to combat this demand-pull inflation would be a cut in government spending, or an increase in taxation.
problem
▪ In order to combat this problem, a number of other indexing methods have been developed.
▪ Insurance companies have just a few ways to combat the moral-hazard problem.
▪ Finally the Ashleys decided to combat the problem of non-paying wholesale customers by themselves buying a London shop.
▪ To combat infection and other problems, doctors had him on 17 different drugs.
▪ To combat some of these problems, there should, argued Bell, be increased opportunities for representation before the tribunal.
▪ The guide outlines what harassment is and what can be done to combat the problem both formally and informally.
▪ The Link group acts as a forum for the major environmental issues and agrees strategies to combat existing problems.
▪ It was only the unnatural methods they used in order to combat the problem which were wrong.
strategy
▪ The Link group acts as a forum for the major environmental issues and agrees strategies to combat existing problems.
▪ Companies are now starting to develop strategies to combat these losses.
▪ The long-term strategy to combat knife crimes through schemes like Operation Blade is to achieve a change in the law.
violence
▪ In both 1988 and 1989, combatting racial violence has been a priority for the Metropolitan Police.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A conference will be held on how to combat pollution of the oceans.
▪ Measures to combat pollution within the city have been introduced.
▪ The Cabinet has recommended new measures to combat organized crime.
▪ The government sees price controls as a way to combat inflation.
▪ The police are looking for more effective ways to combat drugs gangs in the city.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A defendant can combat an obstinate refusal even to consider compromise by a shrewd payment into court, or a Calderbank offer.
▪ Breeders have established their own intelligence network in a bid to combat the crime.
▪ But the effort to combat her own sensual response seemed too much to cope with - slipping away far beyond her reach.
▪ Some players find Goblins hard to use because they imagine they are fighters and commit them to combat as if they were Orcs.
▪ The imperialists have united themselves and combat us everywhere.
▪ The new push is reflected in the doubling of budget requests-to $ 254m-to combat Aids overseas.
▪ They also stress that action to combat these phenomena should be seen as an integral part of integration policy and education.
▪ To combat infection and other problems, doctors had him on 17 different drugs.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Combat

Combat \Com"bat\, v. t. To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.

When he the ambitious Norway combated.
--Shak.

And combated in silence all these reasons.
--Milton.

Minds combat minds, repelling and repelled.
--Goldsmith.

Syn: To fight against; resist; oppose; withstand; oppugn; antagonize; repel; resent.

Combat

Combat \Com"bat\ (? or ?; 277), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Combated; p. pr. & vb. n. Combating.] [F. combattre; pref. com- + battre to beat, fr. L. battuere to strike. See Batter.] To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

To combat with a blind man I disdain.
--Milton.

After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters.
--Gibbon.

Combat

Combat \Com"bat\, n. [Cf. F. combat.]

  1. A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.

    My courage try by combat, if thou dar'st.
    --Shak.

    The noble combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in Paulina.
    --Shak.

  2. (Mil.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.

    Single combat, one in which a single combatant meets a single opponent, as in the case of David and Goliath; also, a duel.

    Syn: A battle; engagement; conflict; contest; contention; struggle; fight, strife. See Battle, Contest.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
combat

1560s, from Middle French combat (16c.), from Old French combattre (12c.), from Late Latin combattere, from Latin com- "with" (each other) (see com-) + battuere "to beat, fight" (see batter (v.)). Related: Combated; combating; combatted; combatting.

combat

1560s, from Middle French combat (16c.), from combattre (see combat (v.)).\n

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Wiktionary
combat

n. A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory. vb. (context transitive English) To fight with; to struggle for victory against.

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WordNet
combat

  1. v. battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Nothern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget" [syn: battle]

  2. [also: combatting, combatted]

combat

  1. n. an engagement fought between two military forces [syn: armed combat]

  2. the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" [syn: fight, fighting, scrap]

  3. [also: combatting, combatted]

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Wikipedia
Combat (1977 video game)

Combat is an early video game by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600. It was released as one of the nine launch titles for the system in September 1977, and was included in the box with the system from its introduction until 1982. Combat was based on two earlier black-and-white coin-operated arcade games produced by Atari: Tank (published under the Kee Games name) in 1974 and Jet Fighter in 1975.

Earlier in 1977, Coleco had released the similarly titled Telstar Combat!, an entry in its Telstar series of dedicated consoles. Unlike the Coleco game, Combat had color graphics and numerous gameplay variations. The 27 game modes featured a variety of different combat scenarios, including tanks, biplanes, and jet fighters. The tank games had interesting options such as bouncing munitions ("Tank-Pong") and invisibility. The biplane and jet games also allowed for variation, such as multiple planes per player and an inventive game with a squadron of planes versus one giant bomber. Atari also produced a version of Combat for Sears titled Tank Plus (alluding to the original arcade game Tank). Combat was programmed by Joe Decuir and Larry Wagner.

Combat (disambiguation)

Combat is purposeful violent conflict.

Combat may also refer to:

Combat (French Resistance)

Combat was a large movement in the French Resistance created in the non-occupied zone of France during the Second World War (1939-1945).

Combat was one of the eight great resistance movements which constituted the Conseil national de la Résistance.

Combat (juggling)

Combat juggling is a sport played by two or more players juggling three juggling clubs each. Combat can be played individually against a single opponent (one-on-one-combat), between teams of two or more players each, or in a group where everyone plays against everyone. The object of the game is to maintain the own juggling pattern while attempting to make the opponent drop one or more clubs.

Combat (Torchwood)

"Combat" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Torchwood, which was broadcast on 24 December 2006. It is the eleventh episode of the first series. Weevils are being abducted by humans. As Owen goes undercover to find out who is committing these crimes, he meets Mark Lynch. Facing demons of his own, Owen becomes embroiled in the fightclub-like subculture of which Lynch is a part.

Combat (horse)

Combat (1944–1967) was an undefeated British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Despite winning all nine of his reces, his career was largely overshadowed by that of his more celebrated stablemate Tudor Minstrel. He won all four of his races as a two-year-old in 1946 and all five in the following year including the Blue Riband Trial Stakes, Rous Memorial Stakes and Sussex Stakes. He was then retired to stud where he had limited success as a sire of winners. He died in 1967.

Combat (newspaper)

Combat was a French newspaper created during the Second World War. Originally founded in 1941 as a clandestine newspaper of the Resistance. Following the liberation, the main participants in the publication included Albert Ollivier (fr), Jean Bloch-Michel (1912–1987), and Georges Altschuler (fr). Among leading contributors were Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux, Emmanuel Mounier, Raymond Aron and Pierre Herbart (fr). From 1943 to 1947, its editor-in-chief was Albert Camus. Its production was directed by André Bollier until Milice repression led to his death.

In August 1944, Combat took the headquarters of L'Intransigeant, 100 Rue Réaumur (fr) in Paris, while Albert Camus became its editor in chief. The newspaper's production run decreased from 185,000 copies in January 1945 to 150,000 in August of the same year: it wasn't able to rival with others established newspapers (the Communist daily L'Humanité was publishing at the time 500,000 copies). During 1946, Combat was opposed to the "game of the parties" claiming to rebuild France, and thus became closer to Charles de Gaulle without, however, becoming the official voice of his movement.

Loyal to its origins, Combat tried to become the place of expression for those who believed in creating a popular non-Communist Left movement in France. In July 1948 (more than a year after the May 1947 crisis and the expulsion of the Communist ministers from the government), Victor Fay (de), a Marxist activist, took over Combat 's direction, but he failed to stop the newspaper's evolution towards more popular subjects and less political information.

In 1950, it hosted a debate about the Notre-Dame "Scandal," stimulated by a vehement letter by André Breton in response to the editor Louis Pauwels.

Philippe Tesson (fr) became editor in chief from 1960 to 1974. Henri Smadja (fr) originally thought Tesson could be a perfect puppet-editor but Smadja's situation, in part because of the Tunisian regime, got worse. In March 1974, Philippe Tesson created Le Quotidien de Paris (1974–1996), which he originally conceived as the successor of Combat.

During the May 1968 crisis, Combat supported the student movement although from a Stalinist point of view, through the signatures of the likes of Jacques-Arnaud Penent (fr). On 3 June, it published a falsified version of the Address to All Workers by the Council for Maintaining the Occupations, removing the references to the Situationist International and the attacks against the Stalinists. Henri Smadja committed suicide on 14 July 1974, and Combat definitively ceased to be published the following month.

Combat

Combat or fight is a purposeful violent conflict meant to weaken, establish dominance over, or kill the opposition, or to drive the opposition away from a location where it is not wanted or needed.

The term combat ( French for fight) typically refers to armed conflict between opposing military forces in warfare, whereas the more general term "fighting" can refer to any physical or verbal conflict between individuals or nations. Combat violence can be unilateral, whereas fighting implies at least a defensive reaction. A large-scale fight is known as a battle. A verbal fight is commonly known as an argument.

Combat (photograph)

Combat is a black-and-white photograph by the Soviet photographer Max Alpert. It depicts a Soviet military officer armed with a TT pistol who is raising his unit for an attack during World War II. This work is regarded as one of the most iconic Soviet World War II photographs, yet neither the date nor the subject is known with certainty. According to the most widely accepted version, the photograph depicts Aleksei Gordeyevich Yeryomenko, minutes before his death on 12 July 1942.

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Usage examples of "combat".

Similarly, the Iraqis have always had abysmal maintenance practices, and an operational readiness rate of 65 percent is the norm in many combat units.

In the strident accelerando of combat, I had found but a single way to minimize losses.

A Corporal First might prove to have more combat acumen than a stately aristocrat from one of the old famifies--and such could not be permitted since it undermined the myth of aristocratic invincibility.

Apres dix-sept ans de travaux et de combats, Adjutor de Vernon fut pris par les Turcs, et enferme dans Jerusalem.

Marine Corps combat instructor, Akers was trained as a Navy SEAL, and Swigart was a former Navy A-36 fighter pilot.

Pleasant talk and a thousand amorous kisses occupied the half hour just before supper, and our combat did not begin till we had eaten a delicious repast, washed down with plenty of champagne.

I painted our amorous combats in a lively and natural manner, for, besides my recollections, I had her living picture before my eyes, and I could follow on her features the various emotions aroused by my recital.

The pictures with which the closet where we breakfasted was adorned were admirable more from the colouring and the design than from the amorous combats they represented.

In the intervals of four amorous combats she told me enough of her life for me to divine what it had been.

Special Operations volunteers endured, everyone in the Ampersand group was grateful for the program of calisthenics, combat sports, and Swimming that Major Warren had imposed during the months at Gatehouse.

In fact, metal bracers are arguably necessary for combat archery, although they should have something on the inner side to shield the bowstring.

Lord Mansfield first rose, and, in a long and argumentative speech, he combated the arguments of those who maintained that the Americans were merely contending for exemption from taxation.

Admiral Vladimir Rostow settled back in the Combat Control Center of the Russian carrier Ataman and listened to the Mig pilots reporting in after their latest run over the occupied island of Kunashir.

Despite her natural athleticism, hand-to-hand combat had been the hardest course for her to master at Saganami Island.

Partly, because the grace of those steps illustrated their own athleticism, which was something any ground combat officer liked to see in her troops.