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contention
English
Etymology
From Middle English contencion, borrowed from Old French contencion, from Latin contentio, contentionem, from contend? (past participle contentus); see contend.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?t?n??n/
- Hyphenation: con?ten?tion
Noun
contention (countable and uncountable, plural contentions)
- Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.
- A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion of strife; a position taken or contended for.
- It is my contention that state lotteries are taxes on stupid people.
- (computing, telecommunications) Competition by parts of a system or its users for a limited resource.
Synonyms
- gainstrife, gainstriving, wrangling
Hyponyms
- (computing) resource contention
Derived terms
- bone of contention
- contention system
- in contention
- resource contention
Related terms
Translations
References
- contention on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- contention in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- contention in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin contentio, contentionem. Cf. the inherited form contençon, and see also tençon.
Noun
contention f (oblique plural contentions, nominative singular contention, nominative plural contentions)
- dispute; quarrel; disagreement
Related terms
- contendre
- contençon
- tençon
Descendants
- English: contention
- French: contention
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squabble
English
Etymology
1600s, probably of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish dialectal skvabbel (“a dispute, quarrel, gossip”), Norwegian dialectal skvabba (“to prattle”), German dialectal schwabbeln (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal skvappa (“to chide, scold”, literally “make a splash”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?skw?bl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?skw??bl/
- Rhymes: -?b?l
Noun
squabble (plural squabbles)
- A minor fight or argument.
- The children got into a squabble about who should ride in the front of the car.
Derived terms
- squabbly
Translations
Verb
squabble (third-person singular simple present squabbles, present participle squabbling, simple past and past participle squabbled)
- (intransitive) To participate in a minor fight or argument; to quarrel.
- The brothers were always squabbling with each other.
- I. Watts
- The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative.
- (transitive, printing) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.
- to squabble type
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:squabble
Derived terms
- squabbler
Translations
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