War vs Shanghai - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Organized]], large-scale, armed conflict between [[country, countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.
* 1917 , (Henry Ford), My Life and Work , Chapter 17:
* 2007 , Carlos Ramirez-Faria, Concise Encyclopaedia of World History :
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, title= (countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
* 1865 , (Herman Melville), "The Surrender at Appomattox":
* 1999 , (Bill Clinton) at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C, November 8 1999:
(countable) By extension, any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.
# (figuratively) A campaign against something.
# (business, countable) A bout of fierce competition in trade.
(obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of war.
* Prior
(obsolete) Armed forces.
* Milton
(uncountable) A particular card game for two players, notable for having its outcome predetermined by how the cards are dealt.
* 2004 , Karen Salyer McElmurray, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven
To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
* (William Shakespeare), King Henry V , act 3, sc. 1:
* 1882 , (George Bernard Shaw), Cashel Byron's Profession , ch. 14:
To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
To force or trick (someone) into joining a ship which is lacking a full crew.
* 1999 June 24, ‘The Resurrection of Tom Waits’, in Rolling Stone'', quoted in ''Innocent When You Dream , Orion (2006), page 256,
To abduct or coerce.
* 1974 September 30, ‘
To commandeer; appropriate; hijack
A slingshot.
*1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 206:
*:They scrounged around the camp […] and held out their filthy wings to the feeble sun, making themselves an easy target for Charles's shanghai .
As proper nouns the difference between war and shanghai
is that war is the personification of war, often depicted in armor, and riding a red horse while shanghai is shanghai.war
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Alternative forms
* warre (obsolete)Noun
- Nobody can deny that war' is a profitable business for those who like that kind of money. ' War is an orgy of money, just as it is an orgy of blood.
- Germany declared war' on France, who reciprocated, on August 3 [1939], and England declared ' war on Germany on August 4, when Belgium was already under invasion.
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
- All human tribes glad token see
- In the close of the wars of .
- A second challenge will be to implement, with our allies, a plan of stability in the Balkans, so that the region's bitter ethnic problems can no longer be exploited by dictators and Americans do not have to cross the Atlantic again to fight in another war .
- The "war on drugs" is a campaign against the use of narcotic drugs.
- The "war on terror" is a campaign against terrorist crime.
- In the US, conservatives rail against the "war on Christmas".
- I reaped the benefit of the car dealerships' price war , getting my car for far less than it's worth.
- The cellular phone companies were engaged in a freebie war , each offering various services thrown in when one purchased a plan.
- His complement of stores, and total war .
- On their embattled ranks the waves return, / And overwhelm their war .
- We played crazy eights, war , fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.
Antonyms
* peaceDerived terms
* all's fair in love and war * anti-war * civil war * cold war * conventional war * declaration of war * dynastic war * edit war * flame war * gas war * go to war * holy war * hot war * Hundred Years' War * inter-war * laws of war * man of war, man-of-war, man-o-war, man-o'-war * man-o'-war suit * nuclear war * perpetual war * pissing war * Portuguese man-of-war * post-war * pre-war * price war * prisoner of war, , PW * pro-war * proxy war * revert war * ship of war * spoils of war * state of war * theater of war, theatre of war * thumb war * total war * trade war * tug of war * turf war * undeclared war * war- * war between the sexes * war bond * war bonnet * war bride * War Cabinet * war chalk * war chest * war child * war crime * war criminal * war cry * war dance * war-dial * war-drive * warfare * war game, wargame * war groom * war hammer * warhead * war hound * warlord * war machine * warmonger * war of aggression * war of conquest * war of nerves * war of words * war paint, warpaint * war party * warpath * war reparations * war-ridden * warring * warrior * war room * war story * wartime * war to end all wars * war torn, war-torn * war veteran * war whoop * war widow * war zone * world war * World War One * World War TwoSee also
* battleVerb
(warr)- Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more . . .
- Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
- And teach them how to war .
- This vein of reflection, warring with his inner knowledge that he had been driven by fear and hatred . . ., produced an exhausting whirl in his thoughts.
- To war the Scot, and borders to defend. — Daniel.
- That thou mightest war a good warfare. — Tim. i. 18.
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* * English terms derived from French ----shanghai
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , with reference to the former practice of forcibly crewing ships heading for the Orient.Verb
(en verb)- It was the strangest galley: the sounds, the steam, he's screaming at his coworkers. I felt like I'd been shanghaied .
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- Oftentimes the approach is to shanghai an unsuspecting victim.
- Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.
Synonyms
* press-gangEtymology 2
From Scottish (m), from (etyl) (m), influenced by the Chinese city.Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, by Eric Partridge, 2006,p. 613