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Combat vs Combats - What's the difference?

combat | combats |

As nouns the difference between combat and combats

is that combat is a battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory while combats is .

As verbs the difference between combat and combats

is that combat is to fight with; to struggle for victory against while combats is (combat).

combat

English

(wikipedia combat)

Noun

  • A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
  • *
  • *:"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= 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 pay

    Verb

  • To fight with; to struggle for victory against.
  • * Milton
  • To combat with a blind man I disdain.

    Anagrams

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    combats

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (combat)
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