Challenge vs. Conflict — What's the Difference?

A call to someone to participate in a competitive situation or fight to decide who is superior in terms of ability or strength

A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one

A call to prove or justify something

Be incompatible or at variance; clash

Exposure of the immune system to pathogenic organisms or antigens

A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.

Dispute the truth or validity of

A state of disagreement or disharmony between persons or ideas; a clash

Invite (someone) to engage in a contest

(Psychology) An emotional or mental disturbance resulting from the opposition or simultaneous functioning of mutually exclusive impulses, desires, or tendencies.

Expose (the immune system) to pathogenic organisms or antigens.

Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially when motivating or shaping the action of the plot.

A call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition

To be in or come into opposition; differ.

An act or statement of defiance; a call to confrontation

(Archaic) To engage in warfare.

A demand for explanation or justification; a calling into question

A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.

A sentry's call to an unknown party for proper identification.

A test of one's abilities or resources in a demanding but stimulating undertaking

(intransitive) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible

A claim that a vote is invalid or that a voter is unqualified.

(intransitive) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

A formal objection to the inclusion of a prospective juror in a jury.

A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

A legal case testing the validity of an action taken, particularly by the government.

A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.

(Immunology) The induction or evaluation of an immune response in an organism by administration of a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.

To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide.

To call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition

To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.

To invite with defiance; dare

To be in opposition; to be contradictory.

To confront or struggle with (something) as a test of one's abilities

An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);

To take exception to; call into question; dispute

Opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings;

To order to halt and be identified, as by a sentry.

A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;

To take formal objection to (a prospective juror).

A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests;

To bring a legal case testing the validity of an action, particularly by the government.

An incompatibility of dates or events;

To question the qualifications of (a voter) or the validity of (a vote).

Opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot);

To have due claim to; call for

A disagreement or argument about something important;

To summon to action, effort, or use; stimulate

Be in conflict;

(Immunology) To induce or evaluate an immune response in (an organism) by administering a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.

Go against, as of rules and laws;

To make or give voice to a challenge.

To begin barking upon picking up the scent. Used of hunting dogs.

A confrontation; a dare.

An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.

A bid to overcome something.

(sports) An attempt to take possession; a tackle.

A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.

The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.

An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.

A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.

(legal) A procedure or action.

A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).

The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.

The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.

(US) An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.

(hunting) The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.

(transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.

(transitive) To dare (someone).

(transitive) To dispute (something).

To call something into question or dispute.

To make a formal objection to a juror.

(transitive) To be difficult or challenging for.

To claim as due; to demand as a right.

To censure; to blame.

To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).

To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.

To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.

An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.

The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.

A claim or demand.

The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.

An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.

An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.

To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.

To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.

To claim as due; to demand as a right.

To censure; to blame.

To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"

To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.

To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.

To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.

To assert a right; to claim a place.

A demanding or stimulating situation;

A call to engage in a contest or fight

Questioning a statement and demanding an explanation;

A formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror

A demand by a sentry for a password or identification

Take exception to;

Issue a challenge to;

Ask for identification;

Raise a formal objection in a court of law