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Negotiate vs Discus - What's the difference?

negotiate | discus |

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)
  • 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
  • "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."
  • To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.
  • To succeed in coping with, or getting over something.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 29, author=Kevin Mitchell, work=the Guardian
  • , title= 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.}}
  • (obsolete) To transact business; to carry on trade.
  • (Hammond)
  • (obsolete) To intrigue; to scheme.
  • (Francis Bacon)

    Derived terms

    * negotiable * negotiation * negotiator * negotiatory

    discus

    English

    (discus throw)

    Noun

    (discuses)
  • 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,
  • He [ won even though he hadn't ever touched a real discus until just before the event was held.
  • * 2008 , John Branch, " 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,
  • (uncountable) The athletics sport of discus throwing.
  • * 2008 , " 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,
  • A discus fish.
  • * 2008 , Carol Roberts, " 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 .
  • (rare, dated) A chakram.
  • * 1893 , Krishna-Swaipayana Vyasa, translated by K. M. Ganguli, ,
  • And Narayana instantly cut off with his discus the well-adorned head of the Danava who was drinking the Amrita without permission.
  • * 1899 , ",
  • 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,

    Synonyms

    * (round plate) quoit

    Usage notes

    * Although an alternative latinate plural (disci) is often cited, it is hardly ever used in practice.