Competitionnoun
(uncountable) The action of competing.
‘The competition for this job is strong.’;
Battlenoun
A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
Competitionnoun
(countable) A contest for a prize or award.
‘The newspaper is featuring a competition to win a car.’;
Battlenoun
A struggle; a contest.
‘the battle of life’;
Competitionnoun
The competitors in such a contest.
‘The new stain remover was ten times more effective than the competition.’;
Battlenoun
A division of an army; a battalion.
Competitionnoun
The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; - followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.
‘Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be.’; ‘A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competition.’; ‘There is no competition but for the second place.’; ‘Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly.’;
Battlenoun
(obsolete) The main body, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; battalia.
Competitionnoun
a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers;
‘business competition can be fiendish at times’;
Battleverb
(intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight
‘Scientists always battle over theories.’; ‘She has been battling against cancer for years.’;
Competitionnoun
an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
Battleverb
(transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
‘She has been battling cancer for years.’;
Competitionnoun
the act of competing as for profit or a prize;
‘the teams were in fierce contention for first place’;
Battleverb
To nourish; feed.
Competitionnoun
the contestant you hope to defeat;
‘he had respect for his rivals’; ‘he wanted to know what the competition was doing’;
Battleverb
To render (for example soil) fertile or fruitful
Competition
Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, individuals, economic and social groups, etc.
Battleadjective
Improving; nutritious; fattening.
‘battle grass, battle pasture’;
Battleadjective
Fertile; fruitful.
‘battle soil, battle land’;
Battleadjective
Fertile. See Battel, a.
Battlenoun
A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
Battlenoun
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.’;
Battlenoun
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.’;
Battlenoun
The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
Battleverb
To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
‘To meet in arms, and battle in the plain.’;
Battleverb
To assail in battle; to fight.
Battlenoun
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’;
Battlenoun
an energetic attempt to achieve something;
‘getting through the crowd was a real struggle’; ‘he fought a battle for recognition’;
Battlenoun
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’;
Battleverb
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’;
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.