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quarrel
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quarrel \Quar"rel\, n. [Written also quarreller.]
One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.
--Shak.
Quarrel \Quar"rel\, v. t.
To quarrel with. [R.] ``I had quarelled my brother purposely.''
--B. Jonson.To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.
Quarrel \Quar"rel\, n. [OE. quarel, OF. quarrel, F. carreau, LL. quadrellus, from L. quadrus square. See Quadrate, and cf. Quadrel, Quarry an arrow, Carrel.]
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An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head. [Obs.]
To shoot with arrows and quarrel.
--Sir J. Mandeville.Two arblasts, . . . with windlaces and quarrels.
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(Arch.) Any small square or quadrangular member; as:
A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally.
A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square.
A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile.
A glazier's diamond.
--Simmonds.A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.
Quarrel \Quar"rel\, n. [OE. querele, OF. querele, F. querelle, fr. L. querela, querella, a complaint, fr. queri to complain. See Querulous.]
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A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses.
I will bring a sword upon you that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant.
--Lev. xxvi. 25.On open seas their quarrels they debate.
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Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility; cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation.
Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him.
--Mark vi. 19.No man hath any quarrel to me.
--Shak.He thought he had a good quarrel to attack him.
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Earnest desire or longing. [Obs.]
--Holland.To pick a quarrel. See under Pick, v. t.
Syn: Brawl; broil; squabble; affray; feud; tumult; contest; dispute; altercation; contention; wrangle.
Quarrel \Quar"rel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quarreledor Quarrelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Quarreling or Quarrelling.]
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To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.
Our people quarrel with obedience.
--Shak.But some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed.
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To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight.
Beasts called sociable quarrel in hunger and lust.
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To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot.
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake.
--Roscommon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"angry dispute," mid-14c., originally "ground for complaint," from Old French querele "matter, concern, business; dispute, controversy" (Modern French querelle), from Latin querella "complaint, accusation; lamentation," from queri "to complain, lament." Replaced Old English sacan. Sense of "contention between persons" is from 1570s.
"square-headed bolt for a crossbow," mid-13c., from Old French quarel, carrel "bolt, arrow," from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus, diminutive of Late Latin quadrus (adj.) "square," related to quattuor "four" (see four). Now-archaic sense of "square or diamond-shaped plane of glass" first recorded mid-15c.
late 14c., "to raise an objection;" 1520s as "to contend violently, to fall out," from quarrel (n.1) and in part from Old French quereler (Modern French quereller). Related: Quarrelled; quarrelling.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A verbal dispute or heated argument. 2 A ground of dispute or objection; a complaint. 3 (context obsolete English) earnest desire or longing. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To disagree. 2 (context intransitive English) To contend, argue strongly, squabble. 3 (context intransitive English) To find fault; to cavil. 4 (context transitive obsolete English) To argue or squabble with. Etymology 2
n. 1 A diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window. 2 A square tile; quarry tile. 3 A square-headed arrow for a crossbow. 4 A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps etc. make the form nearly square. 5 A four-sided cutting tool or chisel with a diamond-shaped end.
WordNet
v. have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These tewo fellows are always scrapping over something" [syn: dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate]
[also: quarrelling, quarrelled]
n. an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" [syn: wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup]
an arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges
[also: quarrelling, quarrelled]
Wikipedia
Quarrel is a video game developed by Denki and published by UTV Ignition Entertainment. It is a word-based strategy game, described as " Scrabble x Risk x Countdown." It was released for iOS devices on August 25, 2011 and on January 25, 2012 for Xbox Live Arcade.
Quarrel may refer to:
- an argument
- a disagreement
- Crossbow bolt, a crossbow's projectile also known as a quarrel
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Quarrel (James Bond), a James Bond character
- Quarrel Jr., his son
- Quarrel (Action Force), an Action Force character
- Quarrel (video game)
- The Quarrel, 1991 Canadian film
- Loki's Quarrel, a poem of the Poetic Edda
- Quarrel, an alias used by two superhuman characters in the comic book series Astro City
Usage examples of "quarrel".
For my part, I shall take all immaginable care that the Fathers who preach the Holy Gospell to those Indians over whom I have power bee not in the least ill treated, and upon that very accompt have sent for one of each nation to come to me, and then those beastly crimes you reproove shall be checked severely, and all my endevours used to surpress their filthy drunkennesse, disorders, debauches, warring, and quarrels, and whatsoever doth obstruct the growth and enlargement of the Christian faith amongst those people.
Young couples would purchase that property, they would take up occupancy, they would quarrel, the quarreling would escalate to shouting and table-pounding, they would anathematize each other, and, presto, they would move out, not together but separately.
Grecian, surely he would never so far misspend his precious time, and squander his precious intellect upon old dusty quarrels, never of more value to a philosopher than a tempest in a wash-hand bason, but now stuffed with obscurities which no man can explain, and with lies to which no man can bring the counter-statement.
De Batz took no heed of these as he passed, anxious only that the crowd of eating-house politicians did not, as often was its wont, turn out pele-mele into the street, and settle its quarrel by the weight of fists.
He remembered that, for over a year now, they had not had so much as one word of quarreling, not even on the night when she had drunk three mint juleps with their friend George Riot, now worthily enthroned as president of Bonnibel College for Women, Indiana.
The Dutch gunners had left the Islanders to settle their own quarrels, and were scampering back to Bridgewater, leaving their silent pieces to the Royal Horse.
They refused to rise in his support, and quickly grew to hate his soldiers, who, being of different nations, most of them brigandish soldiers of fortune, began by quarrelling with one another, and ended by plundering the country.
The Extinguisher had no quarrel with the natural predators, only the two-legged ones.
A writer in some strange way knows his own future - his end is in his beginning, as it is in the pages of a horoscope, and the schoolboy Swami, watching the friend with whom he had needlessly quarrelled, vanish into the vast unknown spaces of India, had already experienced a little of what Krishna came to feel as he watched his beloved wife die of typhoid.
Beryl has sent a messenger to tell you and her cousin Malystryx that this is a private quarrel and that there is no need for Malys to get involved.
No longer did he quarrel with the fate that had set him against the mantled lord of Blagden.
The Marches sat and mused, or quarrelled fitfully about where they should spend the summer, like sparrows, he once said, till the electric lights began to show distinctly among the leaves, and they looked round and found the infants and dotards gone and the benches filled with lovers.
That quarrel was in full swing when we reached here and we were discussing the way to end it most promptly when monsieur le marechal entered the garden.
The two mares quarreled, cajoled, discussed and reconciled, each seeking to convince the other to join her.
Just as an old leather shoe can distract high-spirited puppies from chewing on one another, so I think the unnecessary hardships the Academy meted out to us kept quarrels from fomenting amongst ourselves.