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Dispute
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- 1 An argument or disagreement; a failure to agree.
"But is not this dispute over the question whether we have free will or not very like a dispute that we might engage in over the color of a tree — whether it be green or blue?"
- 2 coming into conflict with wordnet
- 3 An argument or disagreement; a failure to agree.; A disagreement between parties in a contract, lawsuit, treaty, or other legal matter.
"Canadian experience throws light on the relative merits of a separate board for each dispute as compared with a permanent board to hear all disputes."
- 4 a disagreement or argument about something important wordnet
- 5 Verbal controversy or disagreement; altercation; debate. uncountable
"Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute."
- 1 to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another. intransitive
""Now, though thy thoughts are green and tender, as becometh one so young, yet are they those of a thinking brain, and in truth thou dost bring back to my mind certain of those old philosophers with whom in days bygone I have disputed at Athens, and at Becca in Arabia, for thou hast the same crabbed air and dusty look, as though thou hadst passed thy days in reading ill-writ Greek, and been stained dark with the grime of manuscripts.""
- 2 have a disagreement over something wordnet
- 3 to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss transitive
"Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact."
- 4 take exception to wordnet
- 5 to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of
"to dispute assertions or arguments"
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- 6 to strive or contend about; to contest
"to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards"
- 7 to struggle against; to resist obsolete
"Dispute it [grief] like a man."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dews-? Proto-Indo-European *dus- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwís Latin dis- Proto-Italic *putos Latin putus? Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin disputo Old French desputerbor. Middle English disputen English dispute From Middle English disputen, from Old French desputer (French disputer), from Latin disputāre (“to dispute, discuss, examine, compute, estimate”), from dis- (“apart”) + putāre (“to reckon, consider, think, originally make clean, clear up”), related to purus (“pure”). Compare compute, count, impute, repute, amputate, etc.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dews-? Proto-Indo-European *dus- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwís Latin dis- Proto-Italic *putos Latin putus? Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin disputo Old French desputerbor. Middle English disputen English dispute From Middle English disputen, from Old French desputer (French disputer), from Latin disputāre (“to dispute, discuss, examine, compute, estimate”), from dis- (“apart”) + putāre (“to reckon, consider, think, originally make clean, clear up”), related to purus (“pure”). Compare compute, count, impute, repute, amputate, etc.
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