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dispute
English
Etymology
From Middle English disputen, from Old French desputer (French disputer), from Latin disput?re (“to dispute, discuss, examine, compute, estimate”), from dis- (“apart”) + put?re (“to reckon, consider, think, originally make clean, clear up”), related to purus (“pure”). Compare compute, count, impute, repute, amputate, etc.
Pronunciation
- (noun)
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?s.pju?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /d?s?pju?t/
- (verb)
- IPA(key): /d?s?pju?t/
- Rhymes: -u?t
Noun
dispute (plural disputes)
- An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
- (uncountable) Verbal controversy or disagreement; altercation; debate.
- Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:dispute
Translations
Verb
dispute (third-person singular simple present disputes, present participle disputing, simple past and past participle disputed)
- (intransitive) to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
- (transitive) to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss
- 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
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- to strive or contend about; to contest
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- (obsolete) to struggle against; to resist
Derived terms
- industrial dispute
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- dispute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- dispute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Latin disput?re.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis.pyt/
Noun
dispute f (plural disputes)
- dispute
Related terms
- disputer
Descendants
- ? Romanian: disput?
Further reading
- “dispute” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- stupide
Italian
Noun
dispute f
- plural of disputa
Anagrams
- stupide
Portuguese
Verb
dispute
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of disputar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of disputar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of disputar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of disputar
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [di?spute]
Noun
dispute f
- indefinite plural of disput?
- indefinite genitive/dative singular of disput?
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis?pute/, [d?is?pu.t?e]
Verb
dispute
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of disputar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of disputar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of disputar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of disputar.
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bicker
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?k?/
- Rhymes: -?k?(r)
Etymology 1
From Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attack”) +? -er (frequentative suffix), from Proto-Germanic *bikjan? (compare Old English becca (“pickax”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”), German picken (“to peck, pick at”), Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eg- (“to smash, break”). Compare also German Low German bickern (“to nibble, gnaw”).
Verb
bicker (third-person singular simple present bickers, present participle bickering, simple past and past participle bickered)
- To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars (sermon)
- petty things about which men cark and bicker
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars (sermon)
- To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
- 1886, The Brook, by Tennyson
- I come from haunts of coot and hern, / I make a sudden sally, / And sparkle out among the fern, / To bicker down a valley.
- 1886, The Brook, by Tennyson
- (of rain) To patter.
- To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
- 1606, Philemon Holland, The Historie of Twelve Caesars
- Two egles had a conflict, and bickered together.
- 1606, Philemon Holland, The Historie of Twelve Caesars
Synonyms
- wrangle
- See also Thesaurus:squabble
Derived terms
- bickerer
Translations
Noun
bicker (plural bickers)
- A skirmish; an encounter.
- (Scotland, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)
- A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
- The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.
- 2005, Alison Fraser, Princeton University: Princeton, New Jersey, College Prowler, Inc (?ISBN), page 41:
- Bicker process varies by club, and there are often concerns of the rights of female students during bicker […]
- 2005, Alison Fraser, Princeton University: Princeton, New Jersey, College Prowler, Inc (?ISBN), page 41:
Translations
Etymology 2
From Scots bicker, from Middle English biker. Doublet of beaker.
Noun
bicker (plural bickers)
- (Scotland) A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 6:
- …the liquors were handed around in great fulness, the ale in large wooden bickers, and the brandy in capacious horns of oxen.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 6:
Further reading
- bicker in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- bicker in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Bicker in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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