challenge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
hunting
law
lifestyle
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English chalenge, variant with palatalization of Middle English kalange (“an accusation, claim”), from Old French chalenge, chalonge, palatalized Central French variants of Old Northern French calenge, calonge (see Continental Norman calengier), from Latin calumnia (“a false accusation, calumny”).
Cognate with Old English hōl (“calumny”). Doublet of calumny.
Inflected forms:
form: challenges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: challenges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: challenging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: challenged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: challenged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A confrontation; a dare.
pos: noun
examples: 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?
gloss: A confrontation; a dare.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A confrontation; a dare.
pos: noun
examples: Argentine midfielder Jonas Gutierrez added a superb second when he surged past four challenges to fire in low.
gloss: A confrontation; a dare.
pos: noun
gloss: A confrontation; a dare.
pos: noun
examples: The somewhat-shattered San Francisco also managed to make it out, although not before she'd come within seconds of being blown out of the water by Helena, as the two had lost contact in the dark and the flagship had loomed back out of the murk with no one and nothing available to answer the light cruiser's challenge - the radio, the whistle, the signal lights, the flags, et cetera, had all been destroyed. Luckily, one of the few surviving signalmen found a small handheld signal light and managed to blink out the ship's hull number.
gloss: A confrontation; a dare.
pos: noun
gloss: A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
pos: noun
gloss: A procedure or action.
pos: noun
gloss: A procedure or action.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: Consanguinity in direct line is a challenge for a judge when he or she is sitting cases.
gloss: A procedure or action.
pos: noun
examples: We're still waiting to hear how the court rules on our challenge of the arbitrator based on conflict of interest.
gloss: A procedure or action.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
pos: noun
gloss: To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We challenged the boys next door to a game of football.
By this I challenge him to single fight.
gloss: To dare (someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [...] For I challenge any Man to make any pretence to Power by Right of Fatherhood, either intelligible or poſſible in any one, otherwiſe, then either as Adams heir, or as Progenitor over his own deſcendants, naturally ſprung from him.
gloss: To dispute (something); to contest.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation
In the April 2020 Roade fatality, the worker who died "was reputedly in the habit of walking on the line when he didn't need to". Tragically, no one challenged him about it.
gloss: To call something into question or dispute.
pos: verb
examples: New information challenged old hypotheses.
gloss: To make a formal objection to a juror.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be difficult or challenging for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Before moving onto the content of Hobson-Jobson, an explication of the publication history is necessary since this has clearly challenged many commentators.
gloss: To claim as due; to demand as a right.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Challenge better terms.
gloss: To censure; to blame.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: I may be more challenged for my inconsiderate Boldness
gloss: To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The sentinel challenged us with "Who goes there?"
gloss: To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
gloss: To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
transitive
examples: I mean if you go in and want to challenge an exam it cost you half of your course money. If you don't pass the exam, that money is credited toward taking the course. What have you got to lose to challenge an exam, or do a competency exam?
The only time I went to class was to challenge an exam. My marks were good. But there was one class I never missed, “Nursing Process and the New Philosophy in Nursing.”
Although we strongly recommend that you keep practicing until your scores top the 75% mark, 80% would be a good goal, to give yourself some margin for error in a real exam situation[…]. After you hit that point, you should be ready to challenge the exam.
Synonyms: becall
call out
Related words: challenger
challenging
dechallenge
rechallenge
Derived words: challengeable
challenged
challengee
challengeful
challengeless
challenger
challenge run
challengest
challengeth
counterchallenge
dechallenge
floor temperature challenge
frame challenge
immunochallenge
megachallenge
mischallenge
multichallenge
multichallenger
nonchallenge
overchallenge
postchallenge
prechallenge
rechallenge
subchallenge
superchallenge
unchallengeable
unchallengeably
unchallenged
underchallenge
challenge coin
challenge exam
drug challenge
high challenge
ice bucket challenge
peremptory challenge
rise to the challenge
room temperature challenge
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