What is the difference between challenge and dare?
challenge | dare |
A confrontation; a dare.
# An instigation or antagonization intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
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, title= # A bid to overcome something.
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, title= # (sports) An attempt to take possession; a tackle
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, title= # A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
# The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
(label) A procedure or action.
# (legal, rare) A judge's interest in the result of the case for which he or she should not be allowed to sit the case, e.g. a conflict of interest.
# The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
# The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
# (label) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
(label) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
To invite someone to take part in a competition.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To dare someone.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
To dispute something.
(label) To make a formal objection to a juror.
(label) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
(label) To censure; to blame.
* Holland
(label) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
(label) To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
To have enough courage (to do something).
* Shakespeare
* Macaulay
To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
* The Century
To terrify; to daunt.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
A challenge to prove courage.
The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
* Shakespeare
defiance; challenge
* Chapman
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.
(obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear.
*, Bk.XX, ch.xix:
*:‘Sir, here bene knyghtes com of kyngis blod that woll nat longe droupe and dare within thys wallys.’
A small fish, the dace.
* 1766 , Richard Brookes, The art of angling, rock and sea-fishing
In obsolete terms the difference between challenge and dare
is that challenge is to censure; to blame while dare is to lie or crouch down in fear.As nouns the difference between challenge and dare
is that challenge is a confrontation; a dare while dare is a challenge to prove courage.As verbs the difference between challenge and dare
is that challenge is to invite someone to take part in a competition while dare is to have enough courage (to do something).As a proper noun DARE is
abbreviation of w:Dictionary of American Regional English|Dictionary of American Regional English|lang=en.challenge
English
(wikipedia challenge)Noun
(en noun)Letters: Say it as simply as possible, passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“
On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}
Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle, passage=Argentine midfielder Jonas Gutierrez added a superb second when he surged past four challenges to fire in low.}}
Verb
(challeng)- By this I challenge him to single fight.
- I challenge any man to make any pretence to power by right of fatherhood.
- Challenge better terms.
- He complained of the emperorfrom them.
Synonyms
*dare
English
(wikipedia dare)Etymology 1
From (etyl) durran, from (etyl) .Verb
- I wouldn't dare argue with my boss.
- The fellow dares not deceive me.
- Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Because they durst not, because they could not.
- I dare you to kiss that girl.
- Will you dare death to reach your goal?
- To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.
- For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, / Would dare a woman.
- (Nares)
Usage notes
* Dare is a semimodal verb. The speaker can choose whether to use the auxiliary "to" when forming negative and interrogative sentences. For example, "I don't dare (to) go" and "I dare not go" are both correct. Similarly "Dare you go?" and "Do you dare (to) go?" are both correct. * In negative and interrogative sentences where "do" is not used, the third-person singular form of the verb is usually "dare" and not "dares": "Dare he go? He dare not go." * Colloquially, "dare not" can be contracted to "daren't". * The expression dare say'', used almost exclusively in the first-person singular and in the present tense, means "think probable". It is also spelt ''daresay . * Historically, the simple past of dare was durst. In the 1830s, it was overtaken by dared, which has been markedly more common ever since.Derived terms
* daredevil * daren't * daresay * daresn'tNoun
(en noun)- It lends a lustre / A large dare to our great enterprise.
- Childish, unworthy dares / Are not enought to part our powers.
- Sextus Pompeius / Hath given the dare to Caesar.
Etymology 2
(etyl) darian.Verb
(dar)Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)- The Dare is not unlike a Chub, but proportionably less; his Body is more white and flatter, and his Tail more forked.