different between conflict vs tourney

English

Etymology

From Latin conflictus, past participle of confligere (“to strike together”), from com- (“together”) (a form of con-) + fligere (“to strike”).

Pronunciation

• Noun
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n.fl?kt/
  • (US) enPR: k?n'fl?kt, IPA^(key): /?k?n.fl?kt/
• Verb
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?fl?kt/
  • (US) enPR: k?nfl?kt', k?n'fl?kt, IPA^(key): /k?n?fl?kt/, /?k?n.fl?kt/

Noun

conflict (countable and uncountable, plural conflicts)

1. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.

2. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

conflict (third-person singular simple present conflicts, present participle conflicting, simple past and past participle conflicted)

1. (intransitive) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
2. (intransitive) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

   Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.

   It appears that our schedules conflict.

Derived terms

• conflicted

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “conflict”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• conflict at OneLook Dictionary Search

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?nfl?ctus, past participle of confligere (“to strike together”), from com- (“together”) (a form of con-) + fligere (“to strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?fl?kt/
• Hyphenation: con?flict
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

conflict n (plural conflicten, diminutive conflictje n)

1. A conflict, clash or dispute

Derived terms

• belangenconflict
• conflictdiamant
• conflicthaard
• conflictmineraal
• conflictsituatie
• conflictstof

Related terms

• conflictueus

Descendants

• Afrikaans: konflik
• ? Indonesian: konflik
• ? West Frisian: konflikt

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin conflictus

Noun

conflict n (plural conflicte)

1. conflict

Declension

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”)

Noun

tourney (plural tourneys or tournies)

1. Tournament.
   • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     By a knight of ghostes & shadowes,
     I sumon’d am to Tourney.
     ten leagues beyond the wide worlds end
     mee thinke it is noe iourney.

   • 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

     And let the recreant traitors seek

     My tourney court.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint

     We hold a tourney here tomorrow morn, / And there is scantly time for half the work.

Verb

tourney (third-person singular simple present tourneys, present participle tourneying, simple past and past participle tourneyed)

1. (archaic) To take part in a tournament.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional

     Here indeed, perhaps, by rule of antagonisms, may be the place to mention that, after King Richard’s return, there was a liberty of tourneying given to the fighting men of England […]

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