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debate

verb
/dɪˈbeɪt/UK/dɪˈbeɪt/US

Etymology

From Middle English debaten, from Old French debatre (“to fight, contend, debate, also literally to beat down”), from Romanic desbattere, from Latin dis- (“apart, in different directions”) + battuō (“to beat, to fence”).

  1. derived from dis-
  2. derived from debatre
  3. inherited from debaten

Definitions

  1. To participate in a debate

    To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.

    • "Debate me, coward!" snarled the completely normal intellectual.
    • a wise council […] that did debate this business
    • Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself.

  2. To fight.

    • Well knew they both his person, sith of late / With him in bloudie armes they rashly did debate.
    • […] wasteful Time debateth with Decay, To change your day of youth to sullied night

  3. To engage in combat for

    To engage in combat for; to strive for.

    • Volunteers […] thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardour in Spain as on the plains of Palestine.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide

      • He was debating where he'd spend his holiday.

    2. An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than…

      An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.

      • After a four-hour debate, the committee voted to table the motion.

    3. An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.

      • The debate over the age of the universe is thousands of years old.
      • There was a bit of a debate over who should pay for the damaged fence.

    4. Discussion of opposing views.

      • There has been considerable debate concerning exactly how to format these articles.

    5. A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly…

      A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.

    6. Strife, discord.

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Derived

debatability, debatable, debater, debatingly, mass debate, outdebate, redebate, undebating, antidebate, balloon debate, debate bro, debateful, Debategate, debatelord, debatey, make-debate, metadebate, nondebate, postdebate, predebate, pseudodebate, self-debate

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at debate. 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.

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

9 hops · closes at debate

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA