Negotiate vs Discus - What's the difference?
negotiate | discus |
To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
* 1963 , , to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait
To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
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, title= To succeed in coping with, or getting over something.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 29, author=Kevin Mitchell, work=the Guardian
, title= (obsolete) To transact business; to carry on trade.
(obsolete) To intrigue; to scheme.
A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.
* 2004 , Frank Fitzpatrick, "The amazing story of the first discus medal winner", The Philadelphia Inquirer , August 18,
* 2008 , John Branch, "
(uncountable) The athletics sport of discus throwing.
* 2008 , "
A discus fish.
* 2008 , Carol Roberts, "
(rare, dated) A chakram.
* 1893 , Krishna-Swaipayana Vyasa, translated by K. M. Ganguli, ,
* 1899 , ",
As a verb negotiate
is to confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.As a noun discus is
a round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.negotiate
English
(Negotiation)Verb
(negotiat)- "You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue."
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.
Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau, passage=Novak Djokovic earlier had negotiated his own tricky passage through the fifth day.}}
- (Hammond)
- (Francis Bacon)
Derived terms
* negotiable * negotiation * negotiator * negotiatoryExternal links
* * ----discus
English
(discus throw)Noun
(discuses)- He [
won even though he hadn't ever touched a real discus until just before the event was held.
Estonia's Kanter Celebrates Gold Medal in the Discus His Way", The New York Times , August 23,
- [Gerd] Kanter had agreed to demonstrate his throwing skill on Friday, but rather than bringing his own discuses —he usually travels with about five of them,
Weir lays down marker in Beijing", BBC , September 8,
- And Chris Martin took a silver medal in the discus on the opening day in the Bird's Nest,
History of Discus", North American Discus Association ,
- The main body of the Amazon River is too fast, too deep, and too silt laden for discus .
- And Narayana instantly cut off with his discus the well-adorned head of the Danava who was drinking the Amrita without permission.
- If with a discus with an edge sharp as a razor he should make all the living creatures on the earth one heap, one mass, of flesh,