If kids can't settle their own argument, they may need someone to mediate their dispute, or conflict. You can often tell this is the case if you hear the loud cry, "Mom!"
To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle.
Noun
coming into conflict with
Noun
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"
Verb
have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These tewo fellows are always scrapping over something"
Verb
take exception to; "She challenged his claims"
v. i.
To contend in argument; to argue against something
maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to
debate; to altercate; to wrangle.
v. t.
To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con;
to discuss.
v. t.
To oppose by argument or assertion; to attempt to
overthrow; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call
in question; to deny the truth or validity of; as, to dispute
assertions or arguments.
v. t.
To strive or contend about; to contest.
v. t.
To struggle against; to resist.
v. i.
Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or
expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion;
altercation; debate.
v. i.
Contest; struggle; quarrel.
Dispute
Therefore disputed [reasoned,.] he in synagogue with the Jews.
Dispute
The rest I reserve it be disputed how the magistrate is to do herein.2.
To seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance.3.
To dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards.4.
Dispute it [grief] like a man.
Dispute
Addicted more To contemplation and profound dispute.2.
To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle.
To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
Usage Examples
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
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Other Usage ExamplesIt may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.
Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
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