DUEL
\djˈuːəl], \djˈuːəl], \d_j_ˈuː_ə_l]\
Definitions of DUEL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1985 - The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor
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fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman; "In the 19th century, men often dueled over small matters"
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any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups)
By Princeton University
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a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor
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fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman; "In the 19th century, men often dueled over small matters"
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any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other.
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To fight in single combat.
By Oddity Software
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A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other.
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To fight in single combat.
By Noah Webster.
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A battle, usually planned beforehand, between two persons with deadly weapons.
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To fight in such a combat.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A combat between two persons: single combat to decide a quarrel.
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To flight in single combat:-pr.p. duelling; pa.p. duelled.
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DUELLER or DUELLIST.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A front end to gdb by Michael Golan. DUEL implements a language designedfor debugging C programs. It features efficient ways toselect and display data items. It is normally linked into thegdb executable, but could stand alone. It interprets a subsetof C in addition to its own language.Version 1.10. (ftp://ftp.cs.princeton.edu/duel/).
By Denis Howe
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d[=u]'el, n. a combat between two persons, prearranged, and fought under fixed conditions, generally on an affair of honour--happily harmless in France: any fight or struggle between two parties: single combat to decide a quarrel.--v.i. to fight in a duel:--pr.p. d[=u]'elling; pa.p. d[=u]'elled.--ns. D[=U]'ELLER, D[=U]'ELLIST; D[=U]'ELLING, fighting in a duel: the practice of fighting in single combat; DUELL'O, a duel: the laws which regulate duelling.--adj. D[=U]'ELSOME, given to duelling. [It. duello--L. duellum, the original form of bellum--duo, two.]
By Thomas Davidson
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Fight with deadly weapons between two persons, in presence of two seconds, to settle quarrel (the d., duelling& its code of rules); any contest between two persons, animals, parties, causes; hence duellist (1) n. (Vb) fight d. [French]
By Sir Augustus Henry
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n. [Latin] A premeditated fight between two persons to decide some private difference;—any contention or contest.