Combat vs Comsat - What's the difference?
combat | comsat |
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
A communications satellite.
* 1967 , Arthur Charles Clarke, The Coming of the Space Age
* 1977 , New Scientist
* 1998 , Ian Douglas, Semper Mars
As nouns the difference between combat and comsat
is that combat is a battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory while comsat is a communications satellite.As a verb combat
is to fight with; to struggle for victory against.combat
English
(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
* ----comsat
English
Noun
(en noun)- Once a comsat is built, its traffic-handling capacity can be utilized...
- ...educating farmers and schoolchildren, according to the social scientists studying it, are sufficient reasons in themselves to purchase a comsat .
- The suborbital, though, had a direct feed to a comsat , and the channel ought to be secure.