Debate vs Explore - What's the difference?
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(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= (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (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 .
(ambitransitive) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Proverbs xxv. 9
* Tatler
(obsolete) To fight.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
(obsolete) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
* Prescott
(lb) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
To examine or investigate something systematically.
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, title= To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
(medicine) To examine diagnostically.
To (seek) experience first hand.
To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
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Debate is a related term of explore.
As verbs the difference between debate and explore
is that debate is (ambitransitive) to participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena while explore is .As a noun debate
is (obsolete) strife, discord.debate
English
Noun
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.}}
Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:
Verb
(debat)- a wise council that did debate this business
- Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself.
- He presents that great soul debating upon the subject of life and death with his intimate friends.
- Well knew they both his person, sith of late / With him in bloudie armes they rashly did debate .
- 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.
Derived terms
* debaterExternal links
* *Anagrams
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English
Verb
(explor)Katie L. Burke
In the News, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.