Combat vs Buttle - What's the difference?
combat | buttle |
A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat : "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= To fight with; to struggle for victory against.
* Milton
To serve as or perform the duties of a butler.
* 1909 , J. T. Grein, Sunday Times :
* 1989 , Benjamin Quarles, The Negro in the Civil War :
* 2000 , Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum :
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As verbs the difference between combat and buttle
is that combat is to fight with; to struggle for victory against while buttle is to serve as or perform the duties of a butler.As a noun combat
is a battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.combat
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(wikipedia combat)Noun
The British Longitude Act Reconsidered, passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat .}}
Derived terms
* combat payVerb
- To combat with a blind man I disdain.
Anagrams
* ----buttle
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Alternative forms
* butleVerb
(buttl)- ...even the stoic and impeccable maid of Miss Ethelwyn Arthur-Jones, who ‘buttled ’ as well as the most time-honoured butler.
- Houses where Negroes buttled or cooked were marked for a visit.
- At times like this, he buttled when Spriggan the butler was not on duty, or if an extra hand was needed, he footed as well.