Utter vs Dispute - What's the difference?

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Utter is a related term of dispute.

As verbs the difference between utter and dispute

is that utter is to say while dispute is .

As an adjective utter

is .

As an adverb utter

is (label) further out; further away, outside.

utter

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; compare (outer).

Adjective

(-)

* Chapman

By him a shirt and utter mantle laid.

* Spenser

As doth an hidden moth / The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch.

* Milton

Through utter and through middle darkness borne.

(obsolete) Outward.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Matthew XXIII:

Wo be to you scrybes and pharises ypocrites, for ye make clene the utter side off the cuppe, and off the platter: but within they are full of brybery and excesse.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:

So forth without impediment I past, / Till to the Bridges utter gate I came .

Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.

utter''' ruin; '''utter darkness

* Atterbury

They are utter strangers to all those anxious thoughts which disquiet mankind.

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, year=1920 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=Thuvia, Maiden of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=His eyes could not penetrate the darkness even to the distinguishing of his hand before his face, while the banths, he knew, could see quite well, though absence of light were utter . }}

Synonyms

* see also

Derived terms

* utterly * utterness * uttermost

Etymology 2

Partly from (out) (adverb/verb), partly from (etyl) uteren.

Verb

(en verb)

To say

Don't you utter another word!

To use the voice

Sally uttered a sigh of relief.

The dog uttered a growling bark.

To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved

Sally is uttering some fairly strange things in her illness.

To make (a noise)

Sally's car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes.

(legal) To put counterfeit money, etc. , into circulation

Derived terms

* utterance * utterer * utterless * utterable

Etymology 3

(etyl) .

Adverb

(en adverb)

(label) Further out; further away, outside.

*, Bk.VII, Ch.v:

*:So whan he com nyghe to hir, she bade hym ryde uttir —‘for thou smellyst all of the kychyn.’

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dispute

English

(wikipedia dispute)

Noun

(en noun)

An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.

Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.

* Milton

Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute .

Contest; struggle; quarrel.

(Defoe)

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(disput)

To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.

To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.

Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.

To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of.

to dispute assertions or arguments

* Bancroft

to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance

To strive or contend about; to contest.

* Prescott

to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards

(obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.

* Shakespeare

Dispute it [grief] like a man.

Derived terms

* industrial dispute

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