Combat vs Versus - What's the difference?
combat | versus |
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
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, title= To fight with; to struggle for victory against.
* Milton
against, in opposition to.
compared with, as opposed to.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial. }}
* 2005 , Robert E. Weiss, Modeling Longitudinal Data , Springer, ISBN 978-0-387-40271-0,
Bringing a legal action against, as used in the title of a court case in which the first party indicates the plaintiff (or appellant or the like), and the second indicates the defendant (or respondent or the like).
As a noun combat
is a battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.As a verb combat
is to fight with; to struggle for victory against.As a conjunction versus is
Used to link two or more opposing or contrasting elements.As a preposition versus is
against, in opposition to.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
* ----versus
English
(wikipedia versus)Synonyms
* vs,Preposition
(English prepositions)- It is the Packers versus the Steelers in the Super Bowl.
citation
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- If, for example, we select random people entering a workout gym, versus if we pick random people entering a hospital, we will get very different samples.
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.