Tournament vs. Competition
Tournament and Competition Definitions
Tournament
A series of contests in which a number of contestants compete and the one that prevails through the final round or that finishes with the best record is declared the winner.
Competition
The act of competing, as for profit or a prize; rivalry.
Tournament
A medieval martial sport in which two groups of mounted and armored combatants fought against each other with blunted lances or swords.
Competition
A test of skill or ability; a contest
A skating competition.
Tournament
(historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
Competition
Rivalry between two or more businesses striving for the same customer or market.
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Tournament
A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or individual.
Competition
A competitor
The competition has cornered the market.
Tournament
(graph theory) A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.
Competition
(Ecology) The simultaneous demand by two or more organisms for a limited environmental resource, such as nutrients, living space, or light.
Tournament
A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle.
With cruel tournament the squadrons join.
Competition
(uncountable) The action of competing.
The competition for this job is strong.
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Tournament
Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.
Competition
(countable) A contest for a prize or award.
The newspaper is featuring a competition to win a car.
Tournament
A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner
Competition
The competitors in such a contest.
The new stain remover was ten times more effective than the competition.
Tournament
A series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize
Competition
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.
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Competition
A business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers;
Business competition can be fiendish at times
Competition
An occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
Competition
The act of competing as for profit or a prize;
The teams were in fierce contention for first place
Competition
The contestant you hope to defeat;
He had respect for his rivals
He wanted to know what the competition was doing
