Contest
To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
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 engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.
Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.
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Contest Quotations
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George Eliot
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
Frank Sinatra
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
William Tecumseh Sherman
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
Lord Byron
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Epictetus
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
P. J. O'Rourke
Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!
Chris Rock
Contest Translations
contest in Afrikaans is kompetisie, wedstryd
contest in Dutch is match, wedstrijd, concours
contest in French is concours, renauder
contest in German is anfechten, Wettkampf, Wettkampf, Wettbewerb
contest in Italian is contestare
contest in Latin is certamen
contest in Spanish is controvertir, concurso, protestar
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