Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (uncountable) Controversy; debate.
- (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.
- (countable) A competition.
Verbit
- (intransitive) To contend.
- (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
- (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
- (legal) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.
Esimerkit
- no contest
- The child entered the spelling contest.
- I will contest for the open seat on the board.
- Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest?
- The difficulty of an argument adds to the pleasure of contesting with it, when there are hopes of victory.
- The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.
- Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.
- The troops contested every inch of ground.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | contested | Imperfekti | contested |
| Partisiipin preesens | contesting | Monikko | contests |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | contests | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | contesteth (vanhahtava) |