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Wrestling vs Conflict - What's the difference?

wrestling | conflict |

As verbs the difference between wrestling and conflict

is that wrestling is present participle of lang=en while conflict is To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.

As nouns the difference between wrestling and conflict

is that wrestling is a sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points while conflict is A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.

wrestling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia wrestling)
  • A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
  • A professional tumbling act that emulates the sport of wrestling. Also called "professional wrestling". It is distinguished from sport wrestling -- which has strict internationally recognized rules and is conducted on a mat -- by being scripted, rehearsed, conducted in a boxing ring rather than on a mat, and programmed as entertainment.
  • (countable) The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.
  • * (Jean Ingelow)
    • I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow

    See also

    * clench * hold * counter * on the ropes * on the canvas * on the mat * ring * sumo, kanjin-sumo

    conflict

    English

    (wikipedia conflict)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.

    • Related terms

    * conflictional

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
  • * '>citation
  • To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
    • Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.

    References

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