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fight
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English fighten, from Old English feohtan (“to fight, combat, strive”), from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtan? (“to comb, tease, shear, struggle with”), from Proto-Indo-European *pe?- (“to comb, shear”).
Cognate with Scots fecht (“to fight”), West Frisian fjochtsje, fjuchte (“to fight”), Dutch vechten (“to fight”), Low German fechten (“to fight”), German fechten (“to fight, fence”), Swedish fäkta (“to fence, to fight (using blade weapons), to wave vigorously (and carelessly) with one's arms”), Latin pect? (“comb, thrash”, verb), Albanian pjek (“to hit, strive, fight”), Ancient Greek ???? (pék?, “comb or card wool”, verb). Related also to Old English feht (“wool, shaggy pelt, fleece”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: f?t, IPA(key): /fa?t/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): [f??t]
- Rhymes: -a?t
Verb
fight (third-person singular simple present fights, present participle fighting, simple past fought, past participle fought or (archaic) foughten)
- (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
- (reciprocal) To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc.
- (intransitive) To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.
- (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
- 1856, Thomas Macaulay, Life of Samuel Johnson
- was left to fight his way through the world.
- I have fought a good fight.
- 1856, Thomas Macaulay, Life of Samuel Johnson
- (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
- (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
- (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
- (intransitive) Of colours or other design elements: to clash; to fail to harmonize.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:fight
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: feti
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English fight, feyght, fi?t, fecht, from Old English feoht, ?efeoht, from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *feht?, *gafeht? (“fight, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *fehtan? (“to struggle with”). Cognate with Dutch gevecht, German Gefecht.
Noun
fight (countable and uncountable, plural fights)
- An occasion of fighting.
- (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
- A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
- (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
- A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
- (uncountable) The will or ability to fight.
- (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.
- 1673, John Dryden, Amboyna
- Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare.
- 1673, John Dryden, Amboyna
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:fight
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: feti
- ? Dutch: fittie
- ? Japanese: ???? (faito)
Translations
fight From the web:
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- what fight is this weekend
- what fight is on saturday
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dogman
English
Etymology
dog +? -man
Pronunciation
Noun
dogman (plural dogmen)
- (Australia, New Zealand) An assistant to a crane operator, responsible for securing the crane's load and directing the operator.
- 1998, Meredith Burgmann, Verity Burgmann, Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers? Federation, page 108,
- Accordingly, during 1972 the union embarked upon a concerted campaign to enforce the use of two dogmen on each crane.
- 2005, Henry Pollack, The Accidental Developer: The Fascinating Rise to the Top of Mirvac Founder Henry Pollack, page 243,
- The usual crane crew required for operation of the site was one crane driver and two dogmen, but the BLF insisted that the builder keep a relief crane driver and a relief dogman permanently on site.
- 2010, Raymond D. Clements, Aussie Rogue, page 59,
- The only work I had done as a dogman was to use a crane on the back of a truck ‘slinging loads’ and work the crane and truck myself.
- 1998, Meredith Burgmann, Verity Burgmann, Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers? Federation, page 108,
- A man who trains dogs for the bloodsport of dogfighting.
- (cryptozoology) An alleged cryptid that is part man, part dog.
- Alternative form of dog man
Translations
Anagrams
- godman
Esperanto
Adjective
dogman
- accusative singular of dogma
dogman From the web:
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