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Fight vs Bout - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between fight and bout

is that fight is to contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc while bout is to contest a bout.

As nouns the difference between fight and bout

is that fight is an occasion of fighting while bout is a period of something, usually painful or unpleasant.

As a preposition bout is

about.

fight

English

Verb

  • (label) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
  • (label) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern. Then, for a jiffy, I hung on and fought for breath.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-07-05, volume=412, issue=8894, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Freedom fighter , passage=[Edmund] Burke continued to fight for liberty later on in life. He backed Americans in their campaign for freedom from British taxation. He supported Catholic freedoms and freer trade with Ireland, in spite of his constituents’ ire. He wanted more liberal laws on the punishment of debtors.}}
  • (label) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
  • * (1800-1859)
    • He had to fight his way through the world.
  • * Bible, iv. 7
    • I have fought a good fight.
  • (label) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
  • (label) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
  • To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * fight a losing battle * fight back * fight fire with fire * fightest * fight shy of * fight the good fight * fight tooth and nail

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An occasion of fighting.
  • (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
  • A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
  • (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
  • A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=18 citation , passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs.}}
  • The will or ability to fight.
  • (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.
  • * Dryden
    • Up with your fights , and your nettings prepare.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * bullfight * bun fight * cockfight * dogfight * fight or flight * fighter * fighting * fight scene * fight the good fight * fist fight * food fight * footfight * gunfight * pillow fight * prize fight * straight fight * sword fight * thumb fight

    Statistics

    * English irregular verbs English reciprocal verbs 1000 English basic words

    bout

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bught, probably from an unrecorded (etyl) variant of . http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bout?s=t See bight, bought.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant
    • a bout of drought .
  • (boxing) A boxing match.
  • (fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
  • (roller derby) A roller derby match.
  • A fighting competition.
  • * 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
    • Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.
  • (music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
  • (dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
  • * 1809 , A Letter to Sir John Sinclair [...] containing a Statement of the System under which a considerable Farm is profitably managed in Hertfordshire. Given at the request of the Board. By Thomas Greg, Esq.'', published in ''The Farmer's Magazine , page 395:
    • The outside bout' of each land is ploughed two inches deeper, and from thence the water runs into cross furrows, which are dug with a spade [...] I have an instrument of great power, called a scarifier, for this purpose. It is drawn by four horses, and completely prepares the land for the seed at each ' bout .
  • * 1922 , An Ingenious One-Way Agrimotor'', published in ''The Commercial Motor , volume 34, published by Temple Press, page 32:
    • It is in this manner that the ploughs are reversed at the termination of each bout of the field.
  • * 1976 , Claude Culpin, Farm Machinery , page 60:
    • The last two rounds must be ploughed shallower, and on the last bout the strip left should be one furrow width for a two-furrow plough, two for a three-furrow, and so on. [...]

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To contest a bout.

    • Etymology 2

    Written form of a of "about".

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (colloquial) about
    • they're talking bout you!
    Maddy is bout to get beat up!

    References

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