contest

noun

/ˈkɒn.tɛst/UK/ˈkɑn.tɛst/US/kənˈtɛst/UK

Etymology

PIE word *tréyes From French contester, from Old French, from Latin contestor (“to call to witness”).

derived from contestor — “to call to witness”
derived from contester

Definitions

1
Controversy
Controversy; debate.
- no contest
Struggle for superiority
Struggle for superiority; combat.
3
A competition.
- The child entered the spelling contest.
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1. 4
  To contend.
  - I will contest for the open seat on the board.
  - Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest?
  - 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth As for the difficulty or obscurity of an argument, that does but add to the pleasure.of contesting with it when there are hopes of victory
2. 5
  To call into question
  To call into question; to oppose.
  - The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.
  - Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.
3. 6
  To strive earnestly to hold or maintain
  To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
  - The troops contested every inch of ground.
4. To make a subject of litigation
  To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.

The neighborhood

Derived

contest competition, contest shape, no contest, contestability, contestable, contestation, contestee, contestible, recontest

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at contest. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at contest. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at contest

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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