Submit vs Contend - What's the difference?
submit | contend |
To yield or give way to another.
or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
* Macaulay
(mixed martial arts) To win a fight by submission.
* '>citation
(obsolete) To let down; to lower.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To put or place under.
* Chapman
to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
* Bible, Deuteronomy ii. 9
* Shakespeare
to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
* Dryden
to strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
* John Locke
* Dr H. More
As verbs the difference between submit and contend
is that submit is to yield or give way to another while contend is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.submit
English
Verb
(submitt)- They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
- I submit these plans for your approval.
- We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.
- "[Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series."
- Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
- The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.
Derived terms
* submittable * submittal * submitterExternal links
* * *contend
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
- For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.
- You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.
- The question which our author would contend for.
- Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.