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Battel vs Conflict - What's the difference?

battel | conflict |

As nouns the difference between battel and conflict

is that battel is or battel can be (uk|oxford university|mostly|in the plural) provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them while conflict is a clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.

As verbs the difference between battel and conflict

is that battel is to make fertile while conflict is to be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.

As an adjective battel

is (obsolete) fertile; fruitful; productive.

battel

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, legal, obsolete) A single combat.
  • trial by battel'''; wager of '''battel

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) fertile; fruitful; productive
  • A battel soil for grain, for pasture good. — Fairfax.

    Verb

    (battell)
  • To make fertile.
  • * Ray
  • To battel barren land.
  • (UK, Oxford University) To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.
  • Noun

  • (UK, Oxford University, mostly, in the plural) Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them.
  • (Webster 1913)

    conflict

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
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  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
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  • To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
  • Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.

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