Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
- (transitive) To dare (someone).
- (transitive) To dispute (something); to contest.
- To call something into question or dispute.
- (law, transitive) To make a formal objection to a juror.
- (transitive) To be difficult or challenging for.
- (obsolete, transitive) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
- (obsolete, transitive) To censure; to blame.
- (military, transitive) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
- (US, transitive) To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
- (Canada, US, transitive) To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
Substantiivi
- A confrontation; a dare.
- An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
- A bid to overcome something.
- (sports) An attempt to take possession; a tackle.
- A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
- 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.
- An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
- A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
- (law) A procedure or action.
- The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
- (law, rare) 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).
- The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
- (US) An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.
- (hunting) The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
Esimerkit
- Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?
- a challenge to the king's authority
- For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
- Argentine midfielder Jonas Gutierrez added a superb second when he surged past four challenges to fire in low.
- Consanguinity in direct line is a challenge for a judge when he or she is sitting cases.
- We're still waiting to hear how the court rules on our challenge of the arbitrator based on conflict of interest.
- We challenged the boys next door to a game of football.
- By this I challenge him to single fight.
- I challenge any man to make any pretence to power by right of fatherhood.
- to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation
- Challenge better terms.
- He complained of the emperor[...]and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues[...]from them.
- The sentinel challenged us with "Who goes there?"
- The greatest measure of a man is not the way he handles times of comfort but in the way he rises through controversy and challenges.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | challenged | Imperfekti | challenged |
| Partisiipin preesens | challenging | Monikko | challenges |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | challenges | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | challengeth (vanhahtava) |