Excite vs Debate - What's the difference?
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To stir the emotions of.
To arouse or bring out (eg feelings); to stimulate.
(physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
(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)
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, 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
Debate is a synonym of excite.
In transitive terms the difference between excite and debate
is that excite is to arouse or bring out (eg feelings); to stimulate while debate is to consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide.As a noun debate is
strife, discord.excite
English
Verb
(excit)- The fireworks which opened the festivities excited anyone present.
- Favoritism tends to excite jealousy in the ones not being favored.
- The political reforms excited unrest among to population.
- There are drugs designed to excite certain nerves in our body.
- By applying electric potential to the neon atoms, the electrons become excited , then emit a photon when returning to normal.
Antonyms
* relax, calmExternal links
* * ----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.}}
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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.