Combat vs Fighting - What's the difference?
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A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat : "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= To fight with; to struggle for victory against.
* Milton
Engaged in war or other conflict.
Apt to provoke a fight.
* 1925 April 11, "Books", in , page 26:
* 1947 , (film):
* 2003 , Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy , Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ISBN 1576752372, page xi:
A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight
* {{quote-book, year=1613, author=, title=A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV., chapter=The Costlie Whore, edition=
, passage=Then here the warres end, here[206] our fightings marde, Yet by your leave Ile stand upon my Guard. '' }}
* {{quote-book, year=1840, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Seid had fallen in the War of Tabuc, the first of Mahomet's fightings with the Greeks. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1860, author=John Yeardley, title=Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel, chapter=, edition=
, passage=A good many soldiers, and some officers, were present; but the expression of our dissent from all wars and fightings had not displeased them, for they shook hands with US most kindly. }}
Fighting is a synonym of combat.
As nouns the difference between combat and fighting
is that combat is a battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory while fighting is a fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight.As verbs the difference between combat and fighting
is that combat is to fight with; to struggle for victory against while fighting is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective fighting is
engaged in war or other conflict.combat
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(wikipedia combat)Noun
The British Longitude Act Reconsidered, passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat .}}
Derived terms
* combat payVerb
- To combat with a blind man I disdain.
Anagrams
* ----fighting
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* fighting chanceAdjective
(head)- It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.
- Them's fighting words in my country!
- Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.
Derived terms
* fighting wordsNoun
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