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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
contest
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hard-fought battle/contest/game etc
▪ one of the most hard-fought games this season
▪ a hard-fought battle for the presidency
a popularity contest (=competition to find who the most popular person is)
▪ All election campaigns are popularity contests to some degree.
a talent contest/show/competition
▪ Don’t assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.
beauty contest
contest a seat (also run for a seat) (= try to win it)
▪ Twenty-four candidates contested the five seats.
▪ He ran for the seat as a Republican.
hotly contested
▪ one of the most hotly contested congressional elections
leadership contest
▪ the Conservative leadership contest
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ Their bosses, who play the same game with their bosses, join in the annual contest of hide and seek.
▪ An annual contest for authors of programs that can fool human judges at least some of the time was suspended last year.
▪ The Midvale Park neighborhood sparks up a million little beacons with its annual holiday lighting contest.
big
▪ But one thing remained constant: In a big contest, Gretzky will come through in a big way.
▪ She win big writing contest, which not surprise me.
close
▪ Any Conservative you care to converse with will predict a close contest at the next election.
▪ But it's a close contest.
▪ As the scores were read out like a football draw it became clear that it would be a close contest.
▪ In 1966 it produced the closest contest of any post-war election with a three-vote Conservative win after seven recounts.
▪ Following what promises to be the closest contest for 50 years, publishers are dreading a rush of ink to the head.
electoral
▪ Tibbu further complicated electoral contests there.
▪ Yeltsin has entered an electoral contest that may be less bloody but even harder for him to win.
▪ He is both sharply divided from his party opponents and emotionally involved in electoral contests.
fair
▪ The grievance between the Bank Assistants and the Bank for parity was a fair contest.
political
▪ The mischief produced by this institution was incalculable because it made religious differences the deciding factor in every political contest.
presidential
▪ Last week Iowa delivered the first results of the presidential contest of 2000.
▪ The number of illiterate adults exceeds by 16 million the entire vote cast for the winner in the 1980 presidential contest.
▪ It's a familiar routine, as Bush continues to work the centre ground in his presidential contest with Al Gore.
▪ Both the Clinton and Dole campaigns had assumed the presidential contest in Ohio would go down the wire.
▪ Dole is considered to be the man to beat in the Republican presidential contest.
▪ Kerrey is considered a potential rival of Gore in the next presidential contest.
▪ Politics was discussed at the dinner table every night, and in 1960, the Kennedy-Nixon presidential contest divided his parents.
▪ But on Tuesday, Louisiana is set to hold the first caucuses of the 1996 presidential contest.
primary
▪ There were also primary contests in South Dakota and Mississippi.
▪ In another similarity to a primary contest, political activists say a surprisingly large portion of the Iowa Republicans remain undecided.
republican
▪ As predicted, the Republican contest was duly won by Bush, whilst Harkin massively outscored his Democratic rivals.
▪ Dole is considered to be the man to beat in the Republican presidential contest.
▪ In the Republican contest Bush won 76 percent of the votes in Illinois, compared with 22 percent for Buchanan.
unequal
▪ The interlopers soon give up the unequal contest.
▪ It was an unequal contest, and Lorton was tired of playing the loser.
▪ It can become an unequal contest.
▪ You will find it an unequal contest.
■ NOUN
beauty
▪ Just like the outside world, only in a beauty contest you are more aware of it!
▪ Most interviewers did their jobs like judges at a beauty contest.
▪ Fortunately, he ate his last slice long before the advent of pub beauty contests.
▪ College football is as much a beauty contest as it is a game.
▪ Dave Simpson's adult comedy, set in a beauty contest, returns to Liverpool after a successful run last year.
▪ Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests.
▪ He said he had been to a beauty contest where the audience were mostly farmers.
▪ The play is set in a seedy northern beauty contest, which gives Paula the chance to use her original Mancunian accent.
leadership
▪ By the closing date for nominations for the leadership contest of Nov. 15 only Thatcher and Heseltine had been nominated.
▪ He presided over the 1990 leadership contest that saw the departure of Margaret Thatcher and the arrival of John Major.
▪ Labour's National Executive Committee agreed last night that the leadership contest should take place at a special conference on July 18.
▪ Refuse to play games Is there an alternative for Labour to the introspection of leadership contests and inquests?
▪ He certainly welcomed the leadership contest, but then so did many others.
popularity
▪ It will be a popularity contest.
Popularity is nice, but this is no popularity contest.
▪ Like most goods, stocks are a kind of popularity contest.
talent
▪ Finally, don't assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.
▪ The talent contest had taken place in a marquee.
■ VERB
enter
▪ You may receive promotional offers after entering this contest.
▪ To enter this super contest simply answer the following question and state which hand-held you would like to win.
▪ Of course, if you are the type who will enter this contest, you probably already own it.
▪ Boat Show, of course, as will all other contest entrants, making everybody who entered the contest a winner.
▪ Other players could still enter the contest, but it is increasingly unlikely that any would be acceptable to the United board.
▪ Once upon a time, I entered chili contests.
hold
▪ In 1905, Britain held its first beauty contest in Newcastle.
▪ This month they are holding a long-drive contest.
▪ Stone decided to hold a contest to see who could come up with a motto that would best capture that value.
lose
▪ Davies first confirmed that intruders do usually lose contests over territories.
▪ Spaulding said the design firms who lost in the contest will be encouraged to submit plans for individual buildings on the campus.
▪ You lost that contest with my Sam because I decided you had to lose it.
plead
▪ The company also pleaded no contest to falsifying its records to hide the illegal contributions.
▪ Irvin is on probation after pleading no contest in July to a felony charge of cocaine possession.
▪ The study excluded cases in which defendants pleaded guilty or no contest, and it did not involve new interviews with defendants.
▪ Unocal later pleads no contest to 12 criminal counts filed by the state and agrees to pay a $ 3 million fine.
▪ Last month, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor voter-fraud charge.
▪ Earlier this week, Sherrod pleaded no contest to contempt of court for fleeing Holley.
▪ Irvin served a five-game suspension this season after pleading no contest to felony cocaine possession.
▪ Burgess pleaded no contest and was fined $ 150.
win
▪ He looked very nice in it and he did win the contest, so Ken did know what he was doing.
▪ It was like winning the contest, numbers flashing, applause.
▪ Finally, don't assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.
▪ She win big writing contest, which not surprise me.
▪ Barbara has won countless Glamorous Grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977.
▪ The company is 100 years old, and its birds win tasting contests all the time.
▪ MacQuillan was destined to win the contest, but I was prepared to get a strike or two in first.
▪ He has won every contest since then.
withdraw
▪ His close rival, the Maharaja of Rewa, reached a total of 500 and then withdrew from the contest.
▪ Paul Tsongas, who had formally withdrawn from the contest, polled 12, 8 and 10 percent respectively.
▪ In any event, in mid-April he withdrew from the contest.
▪ Wallace then withdrew from the contest after running 51 7 miles in 7 7 hours.
▪ Two candidates had withdrawn from the contest, leaving him as sole contender.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
three-cornered contest/fight
▪ Third, after a terrific three-cornered fight, were David Hoskins and David James.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a close contest for the mayor's job
▪ Harriet decided to enter Henry in the cute baby contest.
▪ Jack always wins the pub's karaoke contest.
▪ Jake always enters the arm-wrestling contest at the local fair.
▪ She won several beauty contests when she was in her early twenties.
▪ The essay contest is open to all teenagers.
▪ The event, held every four years in Fort Worth, Texas, is the country's leading piano contest.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the boss of this contest, you get to set the rules.
▪ But one thing remained constant: In a big contest, Gretzky will come through in a big way.
▪ Did I mention that the contest is also a fund-raiser?
▪ He looked very nice in it and he did win the contest, so Ken did know what he was doing.
▪ In the tactical contest Wilkinson emerged on top.
▪ Lena knew that she had entered the contest without the support of others in the church.
▪ The company also pleaded no contest to falsifying its records to hide the illegal contributions.
▪ We had many good contests on the track and there was some conflict off the track as well.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
bitterly
▪ Lincoln's role in determining the future of the Barnes is bound to be contested bitterly.
▪ Denney created an atmosphere of strict discipline that was resented and bitterly contested by patients for years.
fiercely
▪ The region has been fiercely contested by guerrillas and the paramilitary forces for the past few years.
▪ Target shareholders can sometimes be circumspect about accepting ordinary shares in the offeror, particularly if the takeover has been fiercely contested.
▪ If this was truly representative of tomorrow's task then the event would be fiercely contested.
▪ In its case, although just viable, opinions over its right to life are fiercely contested.
hotly
▪ On the other hand, Best Supporting Actress was hotly contested.
▪ But privatization of any government function has been hotly contested issue in Sacramento.
▪ These last propositions were hotly contested in the apostolic community.
▪ That unit is expected to fetch about $ 9 billion in a hotly contested auction within a few weeks.
▪ The other awards, featured on page 15, may be more prestigious but they certainly won't be more hotly contested.
▪ H are the highest profile and most hotly contested items on the Nov. 4 ballot.
▪ The requests may signal that the jurors are focusing on the hotly contested blood evidence.
▪ On Wednesday, both sides of the hotly contested ballot initiative moved their battle into the courts.
vigorously
▪ Any reference to payment of rent by banker's order or credit transfer should be vigorously contested.
▪ The most vigorously contested races are for the Legislature, where term limits have forced out 13 Bay Area incumbents.
■ NOUN
candidate
▪ A total of 406 candidates contested the election and a 72 percent turnout was registered.
▪ Six candidates are contesting this sprawling seat, which stretches from the historic town of Stirling, north and west to Crianlarich.
case
▪ Mason is one of the few hardware suppliers to contest his case in court.
charge
▪ Last week, she won her freedom after agreeing not to contest charges of second-degree murder.
▪ Mullin, who was fired in August 1994, will contest the charges, his attorney has said.
election
▪ The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation.
▪ No one there had expected a contested election.
▪ The Tigers say they will not contest elections until there is peace.
▪ With 223 House Republicans elected so far, the winner in a contested election would need 112 votes to win.
▪ A total of 406 candidates contested the election and a 72 percent turnout was registered.
▪ By early 1989 over 230 parties had registered and a total of 93 parties contested the May 1990 elections.
▪ The AFL-CIO elected John Sweeney as president last October in the first contested election in its history.
leadership
▪ He was sensible not to contest the leadership as he commands less support across the party than Smith.
party
▪ The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation.
▪ Half a dozen other parties also contested the elections without securing representation.
▪ By early 1989 over 230 parties had registered and a total of 93 parties contested the May 1990 elections.
▪ A total of 667 candidates fielded by 17 political parties contested the 225 directly elected seats in the 325-member Assembly.
▪ Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats.
▪ Details of election results A total of 1,047 candidates - 223 independents and 824 party representatives - contested the 1992 elections.
▪ That is why the Tory Party always contests the Rhondda, for example.
▪ The party did not contest the October 1989 general election.
seat
▪ Candidates in December's local elections will be allowed to contest the seats only as independents, not on a party basis.
▪ When legislative elections were held in 1990 under domestic and international pressure, the opposition party won 392 of 485 contested seats.
▪ The vote for the Green Party, which did not contest the seat at the general election, was only 2 percent.
▪ Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats.
▪ In the 1984 Euro-election, when they contested only seventeen seats, they took 0.2 percent.
▪ He plans to contest a seat on Cookstown district council in the May elections.
▪ But it had decided to contest the seat next time, even before Mr Forsythe, 65, died suddenly in April.
▪ Six candidates are contesting this sprawling seat, which stretches from the historic town of Stirling, north and west to Crianlarich.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In 1991 White contested the US Open and the J G Scott Trophy.-
▪ The leadership election will be contested by four candidates.
▪ The pharmacy company contested the agency's findings.
▪ The ruling party will contest 158 seats in Algeria's elections.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Among domestic mergers, the buyout of Credito Romagnolo was the most contested.
▪ Congress had granted him another amnesty to contest the 1992 election.
▪ Medical science is contesting the will.
▪ No one seriously contests any more that a hostile tax climate has hurt New York's economy.
▪ She filed in the fall of 1989, and at that time, her former husband did not contest the petition.
▪ The region has been fiercely contested by guerrillas and the paramilitary forces for the past few years.
▪ These last propositions were hotly contested in the apostolic community.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contest

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.

    The people . . . contested not what was done.
    --Locke.

    Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this.
    --J. D. Morell.

  2. To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.

  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. To contest an election. (Polit.)

    1. To strive to be elected.

    2. To dispute the declared result of an election.

      Syn: To dispute; controvert; debate; litigate; oppose; argue; contend.

Contest

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

Contest \Con"test\, n.

  1. Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.

    Leave all noisy contests, all immodest clamors and brawling language.
    --I. Watts.

  2. 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
contest

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.

contest

1640s, from contest (v.).

Wiktionary
contest

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
contest
  1. n. an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants [syn: competition]

  2. a struggle between rivals

  3. v. to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; "They contested the outcome of the race" [syn: contend, repugn]

Wikipedia
Contest (novel)

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 (Bottom)

"Contest" is the third episode of the first series of British sitcom Bottom. It was first broadcast on Tuesday 1 October 1991.

Contest (1804 ship)

'' 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

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 (film)

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 (1932 film)

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.