Crossword clues for challenger
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Challenger \Chal"len*ger\, n. One who challenges.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "a claimant;" mid-14c., "one who makes false charges;" mid-15c., "one who disputes something, objector," from Anglo-French chalengeour (Old French chalongeor "slanderer, petitioner, plaintiff"), agent noun from challenge (v.). Specific sense of "one who calls out another in a contest" is from 1510s.
Wiktionary
n. The space shuttle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Shuttle%20Challenger, named after the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Challenger%20(1858), destroyed on January 28, 1986 with loss of its seven-member crew.
WordNet
n. the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" [syn: rival, competitor, competition, contender]
Wikipedia
Challenger may refer to:
is a video game developed and published by Hudson Soft in 1985 for the Nintendo Famicom.
The Challengers were named passenger trains on the Union Pacific Railroad and the Chicago and North Western Railway (which was replaced in 1955 by the Milwaukee Road). The economy service ran between Chicago, Illinois and the West Coast of the United States. The trains had full Pullman service and coach seating and were an attempt to draw Depression-Era riders back to the rails. Food service was advertised as "three meals for under a dollar a day."
During the late 1930s the Challenger fleet was among the highest-patronized of American trains, and the best revenue producers of the UP passenger fleet. Discontinued in 1947, the Challenger name reappeared in 1954 on a streamliner. When Amtrak took over the nation's passenger service in 1971 it ended the Challenger once and for all.
Challenger is a 1990 American disaster drama television film based on the events surrounding the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Its production was somewhat controversial as the families of the astronauts generally objected to it. The film concentrates on the safety inspections and arguments surrounding the O-rings that ultimately were blamed for the explosion of Challenger. While doing this, it also aims to show the personal humanity of the seven crew members. Generally, the film supports the Space Shuttle program and the dedication of NASA personnel in general while criticizing NASA management.
Challenger is the second album by Swiss band Knut.
Challenger is a non-releasable bald eagle in the care of the non-profit American Eagle Foundation. He is the first bald eagle in history trained to free fly into major sporting events during the national anthem.
Challenger was an Australian children's game show that aired on the Nine Network in 1997 and 1998. The first host was Diarmid Heidenreich famous for playing Dougie the pizza delivery guy in the Pizza Hut commercials in the mid-1990s. After he left the show in early 1998 he was replaced by hosts Adrian DeVito and Zoe Sheridan. Adrian DeVito and Zoe Sheridan continued to film 265 episodes before the show was superseded with a return of Now You See It.
Challenger is the third full-length album by American metalcore band Memphis May Fire which was released June 26th, 2012 via Rise Records. The band released the first single, "Prove Me Right," on May 24. They also released the 5th track on the album, "Vices," on June 13 as the second single from the album. On June 18, all of the songs were uploaded to YouTube on the Rise Records page. The album debuted at number 16 on the Billboard 200, selling more than 18,000 copies in its first week.
Challenger (1927–1948) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse who became a Leading sire in North America.
Challenger is a Pakistani reality-based adventure game show, first aired 19 December 2013 on Hum Sitaray. The show offers 16 candidates the chance to be stranded in a remote locale, with limited resources, in the hopes that one person will outlast the others and secure the show's one-million-dollar prize. Each week, the contestants have to perform a variety of exhausting tasks: the winners get extra supplies; the losers get voted off the site.
ASM Tofazzal Hossain (1959October 12, 2010; known by his stage name Challenger) was a Bangladeshi television and film actor.
Challenger is the eighth studio album by Burning Star Core, released on April 29, 2008 by Hospital Productions.
Challenger is a Star Trek: New Earth novel written by Diane Carey.
In Voyages of Imagination, Diane Carey remarked on leaving ending open for a new series: "The new ' sheriff' in these parts was Nick Keller, a first officer plagued with an unstable captain who was forced to take over a ship and dispossess his captain in order to save his ship and mission. The idea was for Kirk to leave Keller in the wilderness to be the Starfleet law enforcement force in the unstable Belle Terre system. Nick Keller's ship was destroyed, and he comes up with the idea of cobbling together a crew from the immediate reservoir. The ship Challenger was named after the space shuttle Challenger, a suggestion from John Ordover."
The Challenger is a fireboat built for the Long Beach California Fire Department. She and her sister ship the Liberty were commissioned in 1987. They replaced two older vessels. Within a year both vessels developed serious corrosion problems, due to poor choice of alloys, and the joints between different metals.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the vice president of Moss Point Marine, Vince Almerico, said "If the port wanted entirely rust-free vessels it could have specified use of stainless steel for everything at a much higher cost."
The vessels were 88 feet long, and their five water cannons were capable of pumping water or foam at 10,000 gallons per minute.
The two vessels cost $2.2 million each, in 1987 dollars, and, by September 1988 the Long Beach Harbor Commission had to allocate an addition $883,000 to repair the construction problems.
The Challenger and the Liberty were delivered in a red livery with black trim, while the two older fireboats they replaced were grey. The maintenance problems had such a serious effect on crew morale that the Los Angeles Times reported crew members had put up a sign, saying, the city should sell the red ones and keep the grey ones.
The Challenger and the Liberty'' are scheduled to be replaced by more modern fireboats in 2014.
Usage examples of "challenger".
I could not help at once taking Akeley more seriously than I had taken any of the other challengers of my views.
Bryar, another top challenger from the lower forty-eight, and Lombard ran teams of registered Siberian Huskies against the Alaskan village dogs.
The challenger who had tried to seize Birdy Zelker, fell sprawling to the floor.
At the housefront Dad had begun to stride up and down the street, bare-chested, his battered gloves on, calling himself the champion of the world, and inviting all challengers.
Maybe, if that could be done, it would put Mnrogar in a position to scare off this challenger who may have attracted the whole army of trolls around the castle right now.
Mnrogar can defeat this challenger for his territory, will all those other trolls just go back where they came from?
The vanguard halted a long bow shot from the hill, and with waving spears and vaunting shouts challenged their enemies to come forth, while two cavaliers, pricking forward from the glittering ranks, walked their horses slowly between the two arrays with targets braced and lances in rest like the challengers in a tourney.
Backing down in the face of a threat brings shame and humiliation, which, if you are a leader, means that you lose the support of your loyalists against other challengers and may well be toppled by them.
Lerrys, you are an officer, you know no challenge is valid unless both challengers are sober!
Norton feared that it would be a long time before the skippers of Calypso, Beagle and Challenger would speak to him again.
It had been the most traumatic incident of the age of space exploration, far more painful than the Challenger loss, because Bellwether and his crew were able to communicate for several days afterward, until their air supply ran out.
There, through a shimmering veil of chainmail, he saw the Pompeii and its new additions, still linked to Challenger and each of the Blood ships with a thin single thread each, as if it were holding kite strings.
Greg remembered the hundreds of APVs and Challenger IV tanks parked in the Chunnel marshalling yards after he got back from Turkey.
Even Challenger was affected by the consideration that his enemies would never stand confuted if the confirmation of his statements should never reach those who had doubted them.
It’s bad press to claim Darwin is a fool and dinos and other extinct animals never existed, and then along comes Challenger .