Contest vs. Challenge
Contest and Challenge Definitions
Contest
A struggle for superiority or victory between rivals
England's contest with Spain for domination of the seas.
Challenge
A call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition
A challenge to a duel.
Contest
A competition, especially one in which entrants perform separately and are rated by judges
A spelling contest.
Challenge
An act or statement of defiance; a call to confrontation
A challenge to the government's authority.
Contest
To compete or strive for; struggle to gain or control
Trade routes that were contested by competing cultures.
Challenge
A demand for explanation or justification; a calling into question
A challenge to a theory.
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Contest
To call into question and take an active stand against; dispute or challenge
Contest a will.
Challenge
A sentry's call to an unknown party for proper identification.
Contest
(Sports) To defend against (a shot), as in basketball.
Challenge
A test of one's abilities or resources in a demanding but stimulating undertaking
A career that offers a challenge.
Contest
To struggle or compete; contend
Contested with other bidders for the antique.
Challenge
A claim that a vote is invalid or that a voter is unqualified.
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Contest
(uncountable) Controversy; debate.
No contest
Challenge
A formal objection to the inclusion of a prospective juror in a jury.
Contest
(uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.
Challenge
A legal case testing the validity of an action taken, particularly by the government.
Contest
(countable) A competition.
The child entered the spelling contest.
Challenge
(Immunology) The induction or evaluation of an immune response in an organism by administration of a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.
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Contest
(intransitive) To contend.
I will contest for the open seat on the board.
Challenge
To call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition
Challenged me to a game of chess.
Contest
(transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.
Challenge
To invite with defiance; dare
Challenged him to contradict her.
Contest
(transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
The troops contested every inch of ground.
Challenge
To confront or struggle with (something) as a test of one's abilities
Rafters challenging the rapids.
Contest
(law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.
Challenge
To take exception to; call into question; dispute
A book that challenges established beliefs.
Contest
To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
The people . . . contested not what was done.
Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this.
Challenge
To order to halt and be identified, as by a sentry.
Contest
To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
Challenge
To take formal objection to (a prospective juror).
Contest
To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.
Challenge
To bring a legal case testing the validity of an action, particularly by the government.
Contest
To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; - followed usually by with.
The difficulty of an argument adds to the pleasure of contesting with it, when there are hopes of victory.
Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest?
Challenge
To question the qualifications of (a voter) or the validity of (a vote).
Contest
Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
Leave all noisy contests, all immodest clamors and brawling language.
Challenge
To have due claim to; call for
Events that challenge our attention.
Contest
Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.
The late battle had, in effect, been a contest between one usurper and another.
It was fully expected that the contest there would be long and fierce.
Challenge
To summon to action, effort, or use; stimulate
A problem that challenges the imagination.
Contest
An occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
Challenge
(Immunology) To induce or evaluate an immune response in (an organism) by administering a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.
Contest
A struggle between rivals
Challenge
To make or give voice to a challenge.
Contest
To make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation;
They contested the outcome of the race
Challenge
To begin barking upon picking up the scent. Used of hunting dogs.
Challenge
A confrontation; a dare.
Challenge
An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
Challenge
A bid to overcome something.
A challenge to the king's authority
Challenge
(sports) An attempt to take possession; a tackle.
Challenge
A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
Challenge
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.
Challenge
An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
Challenge
A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
Challenge
(legal) A procedure or action.
Challenge
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).
Consanguinity in direct line is a challenge for a judge when he or she is sitting cases.
Challenge
The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
Challenge
The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
We're still waiting to hear how the court rules on our challenge of the arbitrator based on conflict of interest.
Challenge
(US) An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.
Challenge
(hunting) The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
Challenge
(transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
We challenged the boys next door to a game of football.
Challenge
(transitive) To dare (someone).
Challenge
(transitive) To dispute (something).
To challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation
Challenge
To call something into question or dispute.
New information challenged old hypotheses.
Challenge
To make a formal objection to a juror.
Challenge
(transitive) To be difficult or challenging for.
Challenge
To claim as due; to demand as a right.
Challenge
To censure; to blame.
Challenge
To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
The sentinel challenged us with "Who goes there?"
Challenge
To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
Challenge
To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
Challenge
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.
A challenge to controversy.
Challenge
The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
Challenge
A claim or demand.
There must be no challenge of superiority.
Challenge
The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
Challenge
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.
Challenge
An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
Challenge
To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.
I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by right of fatherhood.
Challenge
To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.
By this I challenge him to single fight.
Challenge
To claim as due; to demand as a right.
Challenge better terms.
Challenge
To censure; to blame.
He complained of the emperors . . . and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from them.
Challenge
To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"
Challenge
To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
Challenge
To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.
Challenge
To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.
Challenge
To assert a right; to claim a place.
Where nature doth with merit challenge.
Challenge
A demanding or stimulating situation;
They reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power
Challenge
A call to engage in a contest or fight
Challenge
Questioning a statement and demanding an explanation;
His challenge of the assumption that Japan is still our enemy
Challenge
A formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror
Challenge
A demand by a sentry for a password or identification
Challenge
Take exception to;
She challenged his claims
Challenge
Issue a challenge to;
Fischer challenged Spassky to a match
Challenge
Ask for identification;
The illegal immigrant was challenged by the border guard
Challenge
Raise a formal objection in a court of law
