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Debate vs Evade - What's the difference?

debate | evade |

As verbs the difference between debate and evade

is that debate is (ambitransitive) to participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena while evade is .

As a noun debate

is (obsolete) strife, discord.

debate

English

Noun

  • (obsolete) Strife, discord.
  • An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
  • An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
    • , volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= How algorithms rule the world , passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
  • (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:
  • (Frequently in French form débat) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in .

    • Verb

    (debat)
  • (ambitransitive) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a wise council that did debate this business
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxv. 9
    • Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself.
  • * Tatler
    • He presents that great soul debating upon the subject of life and death with his intimate friends.
  • (obsolete) To fight.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • Well knew they both his person, sith of late / With him in bloudie armes they rashly did debate .
  • (obsolete) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
  • * Prescott
    • Volunteers thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardour in Spain as on the plains of Palestine.
  • (lb) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide

    • Derived terms

    * debater

    Related terms

    * debatable * debation

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    evade

    English

    Verb

    (evad)
  • To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument.
    • The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. — .
  • To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
    • Evading from perils. — .
    Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove. — .
  • To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
    • ''The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these ... ways. — .

    Synonyms

    * equivocate * shuffle * dodge

    Derived terms

    * evadible * evasible * evasion * evasive

    See also

    * prevaricate ----