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BNC: 14103 COCA: 12498

duel

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Related topics: Weapons
du·el1 /ˈdjuːəl $ ˈduːəl/ noun [countableC] → dual
1  PMWFIGHTa fight with weapons between two people, used in the past to settle a quarrel 〔舊時兩人爲解決爭執的〕決鬥
The officer challenged him to a duel.
那軍官向他提出決鬥。
2  DISAGREEa situation in which two people or groups are involved in an angry disagreement 〔雙方進行的〕鬥爭，對抗
a verbal duel
舌戰
Examples from the Corpus
duel• Did he really fight a duel with bowie knives in a riverside faro den?• In 1779, Decatur was killed in a duel.• When the Marquis again states the impossibility, despite his love for her { quote } Juan challenges him to a duel.• Ninety-eight years after the first Molyneux-Cribb duel, a black man ascended to the apogee of sporting achievement.• And yet you plot away and think you can have some kind of... of duel?• Bob Welch won a pitching duel with Jack Morris by the score of 3-1.• It would be silly to try to represent the duel between the Miller and the Reeve as merely good-natured fraternal leg-pulling.• Hoping that the Marquis will marry his daughter, he suspends the duel.• His two interceptions Sunday broke the back of the Pittsburgh Steelers as Dallas won the duel in the desert, 27-17.• The duel was continuous and completely silent.• A verbal duel at the conference showed the depth of disagreement between the two countries.
Related topics: Weapons
duel2 verb (duelled, duelling British EnglishBrE, dueled, dueling American EnglishAmE) [intransitiveI]
PMWFIGHTto fight a duel 進行決鬥
Examples from the Corpus
duel• And this was true - for only mature Battle Brothers were permitted to duel.• Tonia Kwiatkowski and Kyoko Ina duel for the third place on the podium.• A case of duelling legal directories is going to trial.• He wasn't up to the fancy footwork required for duelling on the high seas.• But the briefest conversation with Shahi Smart reveals some one college admissions officers might well duel over.• I liked his liking, the exuberance of banjos duelling through the hollow bedroom walls when he was home.• In June 1719 two fashionable doctors duelled with swords.
Origin duel1
(1400-1500) Medieval Latin duellum, from (influenced by duo “two”) Latin bellum “war”
du·el1 nounduel2 verb
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Corpus
BNC: 14103 COCA: 12498
BNC: 14103 COCA: 12498
BNC: 14103 COCA: 12498
duel
Physical fights: fight, battle, combat...
Sports events and competitions: battle/war of nerves, bye, card...
Arguments: argument, disagreement, conflict...
Supplying and using weapons and explosives: arm, armament, armed...
To take part in a competition or game: play, race, meet...

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