Discord vs. Dispute

Discordnoun

Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.

Disputenoun

An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.

Discordnoun

Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.

Disputenoun

Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.

Discordnoun

(music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.

Disputeverb

(intransitive) to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another

Discordnoun

Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.

Disputeverb

(transitive) to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss

‘Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.’;

Discordverb

To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.

Disputeverb

to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of

‘to dispute assertions or arguments’;

Discordnoun

Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; - applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.

‘A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.’; ‘Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.’;

Disputeverb

to strive or contend about; to contest

Discordnoun

Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.

‘For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds m ing.’;

Disputeverb

(obsolete) to struggle against; to resist

Discordverb

To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.

‘The one discording with the other.’;

Disputeverb

To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle.

‘Therefore disputed [reasoned, Rev. Ver.] he in synagogue with the Jews.’;

Discordnoun

lack of agreement or harmony

Disputeverb

To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.

‘The rest I reserve it be disputed how the magistrate is to do herein.’;

Discordnoun

disagreement among those expected to cooperate

Disputeverb

To oppose by argument or assertion; to attempt to overthrow; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of; as, to dispute assertions or arguments.

‘To seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance.’;

Discordnoun

a harsh mixture of sounds

Disputeverb

To strive or contend about; to contest.

‘To dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards.’;

Discordnoun

strife resulting from a lack of agreement

Disputeverb

To struggle against; to resist.

‘Dispute it [grief] like a man.’;

Discordverb

be different from one another

Disputenoun

Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.

‘Addicted moreTo contemplation and profound dispute.’;

Disputenoun

Contest; struggle; quarrel.

Disputenoun

a disagreement or argument about something important;

‘he had a dispute with his wife’; ‘there were irreconcilable differences’; ‘the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats’;

Disputenoun

coming into conflict with

Disputeverb

take exception to;

‘She challenged his claims’;

Disputeverb

have a disagreement over something;

‘We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America’; ‘These tewo fellows are always scrapping over something’;

Disputenoun

a disagreement or argument

‘a territorial dispute between the two countries’; ‘the Commission is in dispute with the government’;

Disputenoun

a disagreement between management and employees that leads to industrial action

‘an industrial dispute’;

Disputeverb

argue about (something)

‘the point has been much disputed’; ‘he taught and disputed with local poets’;

Disputeverb

question whether (a statement or alleged fact) is true or valid

‘the accusations are not disputed’; ‘the estate disputes that it is responsible for the embankment’;

Disputeverb

compete for; strive to win

‘the two drivers crashed while disputing the lead’;

Disputeverb

resist (a landing or advance)

‘I formed my line and prepared to dispute the advance of the foe’;