Contest vs Shock - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between contest and shock

is that contest is controversy; debate while shock is sudden, heavy impact.

As verbs the difference between contest and shock

is that contest is to contend while shock is to cause to be emotionally shocked.

contest

English

Noun

(uncountable) Controversy; debate.

no contest

(uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.

(countable) A competition.

The child entered the spelling contest .

Synonyms

* (controversy) controversy, debate, discussion * (combat) battle, combat, fight * (competition) competition, pageant

Derived terms

(Terms derived from the noun "contest") * contest shape * fashion contest * no contest * pissing contest * popularity contest * wet t-shirt contest * will contest

Verb

(en verb)

To contend.

I will contest for the open seat on the board.

* Alexander Pope

Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest ?

* Bishop Burnet

The difficulty of an argument adds to the pleasure of contesting with it, when there are hopes of victory.

To call into question; to oppose.

The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.

* J. D. Morell

Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.

To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.

The troops contested every inch of ground.

(legal) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.

Synonyms

* (contend) compete, contend, go in for * (oppose) call into question, oppose

Antonyms

* (oppose) support

shock

English

(wikipedia shock)

Alternative forms

* choque (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)

Sudden, heavy impact.

The train hit the buffers with a great shock .

# (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.

# Electric shock, a sudden burst of electric energy, hitting an animate animal such as a human.

# Circulatory shock, a life-threatening medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.

# A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance

(mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.

Derived terms

* bow shock * culture shock * economic shock * electric shock * shock absorber * shock jock * shock mount * shock rock * shock site * shock therapy * shock wave, shockwave * shocker * shocking pink * shockproof * shockumentary * shockvertising * supply shock * technology shock * termination shock * toxic shock syndrome

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Verb

(en verb)

To cause to be emotionally shocked.

The disaster shocked the world.

To give an electric shock.

(obsolete) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.

* De Quincey

They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together.

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.

* Tusser

Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.

* Thomson

Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks .

(commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

(by extension) A tuft or bunch of something (e.g. hair, grass)

a head covered with a shock of sandy hair

(obsolete, by comparison) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.

* 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert

When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock (translating the German Spitz).

Verb

(en verb)

To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.

to shock rye

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