Combat vs Endeavor - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between combat and endeavor

is that combat is to fight with; to struggle for victory against while endeavor is to attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.

As nouns the difference between combat and endeavor

is that combat is a battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory while endeavor is a sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.

As verbs the difference between combat and endeavor

is that combat is to fight with; to struggle for victory against while endeavor is (obsolete) to exert oneself.

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;."

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Derived terms

* combat pay

Verb

To fight with; to struggle for victory against.

* Milton

To combat with a blind man I disdain.

Anagrams

* ----

endeavor

English

(wikipedia endeavor)

Alternative forms

* (l) (UK)

Noun

(en noun)

A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.

* 1640 , , part II, chapter 28:

And these three: 1. the law over them that have sovereign power; 2. their duty; 3. their profit: are one and the same thing contained in this sentence, Salus populi suprema lex ; by which must be understood, not the mere preservation of their lives, but generally their benefit and good. So that this is the general law for sovereigns: that they procure, to the uttermost of their endeavour , the good of the people.

* 1873 , , volume 2, page 184:

As we shall find it necessary, in our endeavours to bring electrical phenomena within the province of dynamics, to have our dynamical ideas in a state fit for direct application to physical questions we shall devote this chapter to an exposition of these dynamical ideas from a physical point of view.

Enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity.

* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral (London: Oxford University Press, 1973), § 9:

The like has been the endeavour of critics, logicians, and even politicians .

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To exert oneself.

* Alexander Pope:

And such were praised who but endeavoured well.

To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.

* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral (London: Oxford University Press, 1973), § 2:

The other species of philosophers consider man in the light of a reasonable rather than an active being, and endeavour to form his understanding more than cultivate his manners.

(obsolete) To attempt (something).

* Ld. Chatham:

It is our duty to endeavour the recovery of these beneficial subjects.

* 1669 May 18, Sir Isaac Newton, Letter (to Francis Aston):

If you be affronted, it is better, in a foreign country, to pass it by in silence, and with a jest, though with some dishonour, than to endeavour revenge; for, in the first case, your credit's ne'er the worse when you return into England, or come into other company that have not heard of the quarrel.

To work with purpose.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

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Synonyms

* strive