Contend vs Guarantee - What's the difference?
contend | guarantee | Related terms |
to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
* Bible, Deuteronomy ii. 9
* Shakespeare
to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
* Dryden
to strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
* John Locke
* Dr H. More
Anything that assures a certain outcome.
A written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly.
A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
The person to whom a guarantee is made.
To assure that something will get done right.
To assume responsibility for a debt.
To make something certain.
Contend is a related term of guarantee.
As verbs the difference between contend and guarantee
is that contend is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight while guarantee is to assure that something will get done right.As a noun guarantee is
anything that assures a certain outcome.contend
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
- For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.
- You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.
- The question which our author would contend for.
- Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.
Synonyms
* struggle, fight, combat, vie, strive, oppose, emulate, contest, litigate, dispute, debateExternal links
* *guarantee
English
Noun
(en noun)- Can you give me a guarantee that he will be fit for the match?
- The cooker comes with a 5-year guarantee .
- (South)
Verb
(d)- The long sunny days guarantee a good crop.