Contend vs Yed - What's the difference?
contend | yed |
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
(archaic) To speak; sing.
To magnify greatly in narration; exaggerate a tale; fib.
To contend; wrangle.
To burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.
To be associated with a place or locality. (rfex)
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1950
, date = December
, first = Lee
, last = Hoffman
, authorlink =
, title = Chaos
, magazine = Quandry
, url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/Quandry/Quandry5-02.html
, volume =
, issue = 5
, page = 3
, passage = Fandom is a wonderful thing. We used to live in Florida ten years ago. Across the street lived a lad two years older than yed' who had the most wonderful collection of comic books...all of a stf nature. At the ripe old age of eight ' yed was swept to Georgia and the lad with the comics was never heard from. Since entering fandom we thought much of him and wondered if he were not a slan. This morning we learned that he is a member of NFFF and TFSC. Naturally we got a letter off to him.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1952
, date = February
, first = Fred J.
, last = Robinson
, authorlink =
, title = Arose By Any Other Name
, magazine = Straight Up
, url = http://www.gostak.co.uk/FR/SU1.htm
, volume = 1
, issue = 1
, page = 1
, passage = All of which sprang (crawled?) from the fertile skull of yed , no doubt it is something in my Radius.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1976
, date = November
, first = Lee
, last = Hoffman
, authorlink =
, title = Editorial
, magazine = Science-Fiction Five-Yearly
, url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy6-04.html
, volume =
, issue = 6
, page = 4
, passage = In preparation for this momentous occasion yed has been browsing past issues of this sterling journal, and it has come to our attention that previous articles by yhos have been devoted largely to bemoaning the multitude of technical problems encountered in production -- the difficulties of duplication, the miseries of mimeography.
}}
As verbs the difference between contend and yed
is that contend is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight while yed is (archaic) to speak; sing or yed can be to burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.As a noun yed is
(archaic) a saying or yed can be a burrow; a hole made by an animal in the ground or yed can be .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.