Jangle vs Contest - What's the difference?
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To make a rattling metallic sound.
To cause something to make a rattling metallic sound.
* Shakespeare
To irritate.
To quarrel in words; to wrangle.
* Shakespeare
* Carlyle
A rattling metallic sound.
* Longfellow
(obsolete) Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.
(uncountable) Controversy; debate.
(uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.
(countable) A competition.
To contend.
* Alexander Pope
* Bishop Burnet
To call into question; to oppose.
* J. D. Morell
To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
(legal) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.
In intransitive terms the difference between jangle and contest
is that jangle is to make a rattling metallic sound while contest is to contend.In transitive terms the difference between jangle and contest
is that jangle is to irritate while contest is to strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.jangle
English
Verb
- Like sweet bells jangled , out of tune, and harsh.
- The sound from the next apartment jangled my nerves.
- Good wits will be jangling ; but, gentles, agree.
- Prussian Trenck jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.
Noun
(en noun)- the musical jangle of sleigh bells
- (Chaucer)
Usage notes
* somewhat harsher than jinglecontest
English
Noun
- no contest
- The child entered the spelling contest .
Synonyms
* (controversy) controversy, debate, discussion * (combat) battle, combat, fight * (competition) competition, pageantDerived terms
(Terms derived from the noun "contest") * contest shape * fashion contest * no contest * pissing contest * popularity contest * wet t-shirt contest * will contestVerb
(en verb)- I will contest for the open seat on the board.
- Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest ?
- The difficulty of an argument adds to the pleasure of contesting with it, when there are hopes of victory.
- The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.
- Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.
- The troops contested every inch of ground.