War vs. Conflict
War and Conflict Definitions
War
A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties.
Conflict
A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.
War
The period of such conflict.
Conflict
A state of disagreement or disharmony between persons or ideas; a clash
A conflict over water rights.
War
The techniques and procedures of war; military science.
Conflict
(Psychology) An emotional or mental disturbance resulting from the opposition or simultaneous functioning of mutually exclusive impulses, desires, or tendencies.
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War
A condition of active antagonism or contention
A war of words.
A price war.
Conflict
Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially when motivating or shaping the action of the plot.
War
A concerted effort or campaign to combat or put an end to something considered injurious
The war against acid rain.
Conflict
To be in or come into opposition; differ.
War
To wage or carry on warfare.
Conflict
(Archaic) To engage in warfare.
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War
To be in a state of hostility or rivalry; contend.
Conflict
A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
The conflict between the government and the rebels began three years ago.
War
(uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
Conflict
An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
I wanted to attend the meeting but there's a conflict in my schedule that day.
War
(countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
Conflict
(intransitive) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
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War
Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
Conflict
(intransitive) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.
It appears that our schedules conflict.
War
Protracted conflict, particularly
Conflict
A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
War
Campaigns against various social problems.
Conflict
A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.
As soon as he [Atterbury] was himself again, he became eager for action and conflict.
An irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.
War
(business) A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.
Conflict
To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide.
Fire and water conflicting together.
War
(crime) A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.
Conflict
To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.
A man would be content to . . . conflict with great difficulties, in hopes of a mighty reward.
War
(Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.
Flame war... edit war...
Conflict
To be in opposition; to be contradictory.
The laws of the United States and of the individual States may, in some cases, conflict with each other.
War
An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.
Conflict
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
War
(obsolete) Armed forces.
Conflict
Opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings;
He was immobilized by conflict and indecision
War
Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.
Conflict
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
War
(intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
Conflict
A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests;
His conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post
A conflict of loyalties
War
(transitive) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
Conflict
An incompatibility of dates or events;
He noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings
War
Ware; aware.
Conflict
Opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot);
This form of conflict is essential to Mann's writing
War
A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed.
Conflict
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
War
A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
Conflict
Be in conflict;
The two proposals conflict!
War
Instruments of war.
His complement of stores, and total war.
Conflict
Go against, as of rules and laws;
He ran afould of the law
This behavior conflicts with our rules
War
Forces; army.
On their embattled ranks the waves return,And overwhelm their war.
War
The profession of arms; the art of war.
Thou art but a youth, and he is a man of war from his youth.
War
A state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.
War
To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it.
Why should I war without the walls of Troy?
Our countrymen were warring on that day!
War
To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
War
To make war upon; to fight.
To war the Scot, and borders to defend.
War
To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
That thou . . . mightest war a good warfare.
War
The waging of armed conflict against an enemy;
Thousands of people were killed in the war
War
A legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply;
War was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring
War
An active struggle between competing entities;
A price war
A war of wits
Diplomatic warfare
War
A concerted campaign to end something that is injurious;
The war on poverty
The war against crime
War
Make or wage war
