Crossword clues for contest
contest
- Question, as a bequest
- Miss America, e.g.
- Take issue with
- Question many on trial
- Competition cheat put on trial
- Challenge wrongdoer put on trial
- Disagree with Charlie over a game of cricket
- Call into question
- Bee, e.g
- Miss America, e.g
- Word after "beauty" or "popularity"
- Time for drawing
- Battle of the bands, for one
- Competition in which there should be a fair winner
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
The people . . . contested not what was done.
--Locke.Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this.
--J. D. Morell. To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
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(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. To contest an election. (Polit.)
To strive to be elected.
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To dispute the declared result of an election.
Syn: To dispute; controvert; debate; litigate; oppose; argue; contend.
Contest \Con*test"\, v. i. To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.
The difficulty of an argument adds to the pleasure of
contesting with it, when there are hopes of victory.
--Bp. Burnet.
Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest?
--Pope.
Contest \Con"test\, n.
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Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
Leave all noisy contests, all immodest clamors and brawling language.
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Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.
The late battle had, in effect, been a contest between one usurper and another.
--Hallam.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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from French contester "dispute, oppose," from Middle French, from Latin contestari (litem) "to call to witness, bring action," from com- "together" (see com-) + testari "to bear witness," from testis "a witness," (see testament). Calling witnesses as the first step in a legal combat. Related: Contestable; contested; contesting.
1640s, from contest (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) controversy; debate. 2 (context uncountable English) struggle for superiority; combat. 3 (context countable English) A competition. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To contend. 2 (context transitive English) To call into question; to oppose. 3 (context transitive English) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend. 4 (context legal English) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.
WordNet
n. an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants [syn: competition]
a struggle between rivals
v. to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; "They contested the outcome of the race" [syn: contend, repugn]
Wikipedia
Contest is the self-published first novel by Australian thriller writer Matthew Reilly. In 1996, after being rejected by several Australian publishing houses, Reilly personally paid for 1000 copies of the book to be published privately under the label of 'Karanadon Entertainment', and sold them himself.
Before publishing the novel in North America, Reilly rewrote most of the novel, placing the contest in the New York Library, rather than a fictitious library, and added descriptions of and encounters with the other contestants to improve his story.
"Contest" is the third episode of the first series of British sitcom Bottom. It was first broadcast on Tuesday 1 October 1991.
'' Contest '' was an Australian sloop wrecked in 1807. She was a sloop of some 44 tons (bm), built in Port Jackson by James Underwood, owned by Kable & Co, and registered on 20 July 1804. On 28 February 1807 she was sailing for Newcastle but the wind would not allow her to make the harbour and so she continued north. A little short of Port Stephens a heavy storm drove Contest ashore, where she was smashed to pieces. All the crew were saved but no cargo was salvageable.
CONTEST is the name of the United Kingdom's counter-terrorism strategy. It was first developed by the Home Office in early 2003, and a revised version was made publicly available in 2006. Further revisions were published on 24 March 2009 and, most recently, on 11 July 2011. An Annual Report on implementation of CONTEST was released in March 2010 and, most recently, in April 2014. The aim of the strategy is "to reduce the risk to the UK and its interests overseas from terrorism, so that people can go about their lives freely and with confidence."
CONTEST is split into four work streams that are known within the counter-terrorism community as the 'four P's':'' Prevent'', Pursue, Protect, and Prepare.
Contest is a 2013 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Anthony Joseph Giunta and starring Kenton Duty, Daniel Flaherty, Katherine McNamara, and Mary Beth Peil.
The film made its world television premiere on Cartoon Network on October 6, 2013, as part of their Stop Bullying, Speak Up promotion.
Contest'' (German:Kampf'') is a 1932 German sports film directed by Erich Schönfelder and starring Manfred von Brauchitsch, Evelyn Holt and Kurt Vespermann. It is set in the world of motor racing. It was the final film directed by Schönfelder.
The film's sets were designed by Artur Gunther and Willi Herrmann.
Usage examples of "contest".
Had the circumstances been happier, Ada thought, this would have been like the hair contest, a game of dress-up against which they might wager to see who could accouter herself most convincing as a man.
As the events are described we see all the great Achaean heroes, familiar to us from battle-scenes, locked now not in combat but in the fierce effort of peaceful contest.
In the contest of who was in charge, Adams, it seemed, had been put in his place, outflanked not so much by Washington as by his own cabinet, and ultimately Hamilton, which left Adams feeling bruised and resentful.
If Hamilton and his admirers in the cabinet had outmaneuvered Adams in the contest over command of the army, Adams had now cut the ground out from under Hamilton.
For again as in 1788 and 1796, Hamilton was throwing his weight into the contest to tip the balance against Adams, except this time there was no pretense of secrecy.
Marhanen had never contested the matter, seeing the Aswydd aetheling owned himself a Marhanen vassal when he was outside his own borders.
The supersonic Russian bombers went to afterburner and activated their radars in a contest with time, distance, and American interceptors.
His death, which has been imputed to his own despair, left the reins of government in the hands of Withimer, who, with the doubtful aid of some Scythian mercenaries, maintained the unequal contest against the arms of the Huns and the Alani, till he was defeated and slain in a decisive battle.
I even told him of my enchantment by Sarah Blundy and my determination to bring our contest to an end once and for all.
Modern thought, then, will contest even its own metaphysical impulses, and show that reflections upon life, labour, and language, in so far as they have value as analytics of finitude, express the end of metaphysics: the philosophy of life denounces metaphysics as a veil of illusion, that of labour denounces it as an alienated form of thought and an ideology, that of language as a cultural episode.
Well, in the past, in any kind of contest between a network news 36 ARTHUR HAILEY anchorman and his executive producer, the anchor had invariably won, with the producer having to look for work elsewhere.
Aeetes gave them for the contest the fell teeth of the Aonian dragon which Cadmus found in Ogygian Thebes when he came seeking for Europa and there slew the--warder of the spring of Ares.
Before they yielded to the Roman arms, they often disputed the field, and often renewed the contest.
The aulos was appropriate to certain religious services and to certain festivals, and it had a moderate status in the various contests of the national games, but the great instrument of Greek music, the universal dependence for all occasions, public and private, was the lyre.
In spite of its size--five miles around--it seemed solidly packed for the entire length with autos, containing gay parties who had come to see the electric contest.