Battle vs. Siege — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Battle and Siege
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Battle
A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles.
Siege
A siege is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or a well-prepared assault. This derives from Latin: sedere, lit. 'to sit'.
Battle
A fight between two armed forces, usually on a large scale
An important battle in the Pacific campaign.
Siege
A military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling those inside to surrender
Siege warfare
Verdun had withstood a siege of ten weeks
Battle
Armed fighting; combat
Wounded in battle.
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Siege
A group of herons
There is a siege of herons at the river
Battle
A match between two combatants
Trial by battle.
Siege
The surrounding and blockading of a city, town, or fortress by an army attempting to capture it.
Battle
A protracted controversy or struggle
Won the battle of the budget.
Siege
A prolonged period, as of illness
A siege of asthma.
Battle
An intense competition
A battle of wits.
Siege
(Obsolete) A seat, especially a throne.
Battle
To engage in or as if in battle.
Siege
To subject to a siege; besiege
The invaders sieged the castle.
Battle
To fight against
Battled the enemy.
Battled cancer.
Siege
(heading) Military action.
Battle
A contest, a struggle.
The battle of life
Siege
(US) A period of struggle or difficulty, especially from illness.
Battle
(military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
Siege
(figuratively) A prolonged assault or attack.
Battle
A division of an army; a battalion.
Siege
(heading) A seat.
Battle
The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.
Siege
(obsolete) A seat, especially as used by someone of importance or authority.
Battle
Battle buddy
Siege
(obsolete) An ecclesiastical see.
Battle
(intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight
Scientists always battle over theories.
She has been battling against cancer for years.
Siege
(obsolete) The place where one has his seat; a home, residence, domain, empire.
Battle
(transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
She has been battling cancer for years.
Siege
The seat of a heron while looking out for prey.
Battle
To feed or nourish (someone or something).
Siege
A flock of heron.
Battle
To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.
Siege
(obsolete) A toilet seat.
Battle
Improving; nutritious; fattening.
Battle grass, battle pasture
Siege
(obsolete) The anus; the rectum.
Battle
Fertile; fruitful.
Battle soil, battle land
Siege
(obsolete) Excrements, stool, fecal matter.
Battle
A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
Siege
(obsolete) Rank; grade; station; estimation.
Battle
A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
The whole intellectual battle that had at its center the best poem of the best poet of that day.
Siege
(obsolete) The floor of a glass-furnace.
Battle
A division of an army; a battalion.
The king divided his army into three battles.
The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every action.
Siege
(obsolete) A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory.
Battle
The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
Siege
To assault or blockade a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege.
Battle
To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
To meet in arms, and battle in the plain.
Siege
A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
A stately siege of sovereign majesty,And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay.
In our great hall there stood a vacant chair . . . And Merlin called it "The siege perilous."
Battle
To assail in battle; to fight.
Siege
Hence, place or situation; seat.
Ah! traitorous eyes, come out of your shameless siege forever.
Battle
A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;
Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga
He lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement
Siege
Rank; grade; station; estimation.
I fetch my life and beingFrom men of royal siege.
Battle
An energetic attempt to achieve something;
Getting through the crowd was a real struggle
He fought a battle for recognition
Siege
Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.
The siege of this mooncalf.
Battle
An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph
Police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs
Siege
The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade.
Battle
Battle or contend against in or as if in a battle;
The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Nothern Iraq
We must combat the prejudices against other races
They battled over the budget
Siege
Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.
Love stood the siege, and would not yield his breast.
Siege
The floor of a glass-furnace.
Siege
A workman's bench.
Siege
To besiege; to beset.
Through all the dangers that can siegeThe life of man.
Siege
The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
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