different between fighting vs confrontation
fighting
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fa?t??/
Etymology 1
From Middle English feghtyng, fy?tynge, fightand, feghtand, feghtande, feightand, fe?tand, vi?tinde, feihtende, from Old English feohtende, from Proto-Germanic *fehtandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *fehtan? (“to comb, struggle, contend with”), equivalent to fight +? -ing.
Adjective
fighting
- Engaged in war or other conflict.
- Apt to provoke a fight.
- 1925 April 11, "Books", in The New Yorker, page 26:
- It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.
- 1947, Hold That Lion! (film):
- Them's fighting words in my country!
- 2003, Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ?ISBN, page xi:
- Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.
- 1925 April 11, "Books", in The New Yorker, page 26:
Translations
Verb
fighting
- present participle of fight
Derived terms
- fighting chance
Etymology 2
From Middle English fightyng, fightynge, fi?tinge, fe?tyng, from Old English fihtung (“fighting”), equivalent to fight +? -ing.
Noun
fighting (countable and uncountable, plural fightings)
- The act or process of contending; violence or conflict.
- A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight
Derived terms
- fighting fit
- fighting words
Descendants
- Korean: ??? (hwaiting)
Chinese
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean ??? (hwaiting) or ??? (paiting), from English fighting.
Pronunciation
Interjection
fighting
- (slang) go for it (to put maximum effort into achieving something)
- ??????????????????????fighting? [MSC, trad.]
- From: 2016, ?????????? ???????, ????
- Fùzh?ng liù nián, tàolù m?nm?n, y?dìng dài zhe x?xùn huílái! Fùzh?ngrén fighting! [Pinyin]
- (please add an English translation of this example)
??????????????????????fighting? [MSC, simp.]- ???????????????????????????fighting? [MSC, trad.]
- From: 2016, ????????? ?????????, ????
- Yùndònghuì sh? zh?nggè rén j?ngshén q?lái! Zhèngzài ch?ng xiàng m?ji?xiàn b?obaomen de hángliè zh?ng! Fighting! [Pinyin]
- (please add an English translation of this example)
???????????????????????????fighting? [MSC, simp.]- ??fighting? [MSC, trad.]
- From: 2018, ?????????? ????“????”, ????
- Dà Qiáo fighting! [Pinyin]
- (please add an English translation of this example)
??fighting? [MSC, simp.]
Usage notes
This expression doesn't mean "fighting", but an encouragement.
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confrontation
English
Etymology
From Middle French.Morphologically confront +? -ation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?nf??n?te???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
confrontation (countable and uncountable, plural confrontations)
- The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
- A conflict between armed forces.
Derived terms
- confrontational
Related terms
- confront
Translations
Further reading
- confrontation at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.f???.ta.sj??/
Noun
confrontation f (plural confrontations)
- confrontation
Related terms
- confronter
Further reading
- “confrontation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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