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Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.
Joyce Appleby

Meaning of "contention" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CONTENTION

From Latin contentiō exertion, from contendere to contend.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CONTENTION

contention  [kənˈtɛnʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONTENTION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Contention is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CONTENTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Contention

Contention may refer to: ▪ The main contention, in rhetoric and logic, the main point being argued ▪ Resource contention, a general concept in communications and computing, is competition by users of a system for the facility at the same time: ▪ Contention, a channel access method ▪ The contention ratio, in computer networking, competition that applies specifically to the number of people connected to an ISP who share a set amount of bandwidth ▪ Lock contention, in computer science, where a mutual exclusion lock reduces the throughput by hindering the concurrency of a program ▪ Bus contention, in computer design, where multiple devices on a computer bus attempt to use it at the same time Contention may also refer to: ▪ Contention City, Arizona, a ghost town in Cochise County in southeast Arizona, sometimes referred to simply as Contention, Arizona.

Definition of contention in the English dictionary

The first definition of contention in the dictionary is a struggling between opponents; competition. Other definition of contention is dispute in an argument. Contention is also a point asserted in argument.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONTENTION


abstention
əbˈstɛnʃən
attention
əˈtɛnʃən
detention
dɪˈtɛnʃən
distension
dɪsˈtɛnʃən
extension
ɪkˈstɛnʃən
hyperextension
ˌhaɪpərɪkˈstɛnʃən
hypertension
ˌhaɪpəˈtɛnʃən
hypotension
ˌhaɪpəʊˈtɛnʃən
intension
ɪnˈtɛnʃən
intention
ɪnˈtɛnʃən
irretention
ɪrɪˈtɛnʃən
mention
ˈmɛnʃən
normotension
ˈnɔːməʊˌtɛnʃən
overattention
ˌəʊvərəˈtɛnʃən
overextension
ˌəʊvərɪkˈstɛnʃən
pretension
prɪˈtɛnʃən
protension
prəʊˈtɛnʃən
retention
rɪˈtɛnʃən
sustention
səˈstɛnʃən
tension
ˈtɛnʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONTENTION

contender
contending
contendingly
contenement
content
content provider
content word
content-addressable storage
contentation
contented
contentedly
contentedness
contentious
contentiously
contentiousness
contentless
contentment
contents
contents insurance
contents page

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONTENTION

accreditation
bone of contention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
chemoprevention
contravention
convention
crime prevention
dissention
fire prevention
honourable mention
inattention
indention
intervention
invention
National Convention
obtention
political convention
prevention
reinvention
selective attention
subvention

Synonyms and antonyms of contention in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CONTENTION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «contention» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of contention

Translation of «contention» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONTENTION

Find out the translation of contention to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of contention from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «contention» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

观点
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

discusión
570 millions of speakers

English

contention
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विवाद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خلاف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

утверждение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

asserção
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তর্ক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

assertion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pertengkaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Behauptung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

主張
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

논점
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pratelan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tranh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கருத்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भांडण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çekişme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tesi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

twierdzenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

твердження
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

afirmație
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ισχυρισμό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

twis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

påstående
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

contention
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of contention

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONTENTION»

The term «contention» is very widely used and occupies the 23.085 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONTENTION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «contention» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «contention» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about contention

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10 QUOTES WITH «CONTENTION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word contention.
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Mustafa Akyol
The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God?
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Joyce Appleby
Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.
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Jakob Bohme
A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.
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Anita Brookner
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
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Anita Brookner
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
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Tim Cahill
As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing.
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Paula Creamer
I like it when, you know, 3-under wins, you know, 20-under par, it just brings so many other people into contention.
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Paula Creamer
I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.
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Sergio Garcia
When I'm playing my best and find myself in contention late on Sundays, it's usually when I'm not thinking about my swing, but rather trusting my setup and smoothly pulling the trigger. I won't completely rely on feel - I like to keep a few images in the back of my mind to make sure that I get the most out of my driver, irons and wedges.
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Seth Green
I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONTENTION»

Discover the use of contention in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to contention and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils
Seeking to disprove the theory of human evolution, the author examines the fossils of the so-called "ape men." This is the most complete and accurate critique of the fossils of the so-called 'ape men.
Marvin L. Lubenow, 2004
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Dynamics of Contention
Dynamics of Contention examines and compares eighteen contentious episodes drawn from many different parts of the world since the French Revolution, probing them for consequential and widely applicable mechanisms, for example, brokerage, ...
Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, Charles Tilly, 2001
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Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human ...
Bones of Contention is a behind-the-scenes look at the search for human origins.
Roger Lewin, 1997
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From Contention to Democracy
The chapters in this book all point to the place of social movements in relation to these three processes of change, while discussing the history and well-known events of social movements.
Marco Giugni, Doug McAdam, Charles Tilly, 1998
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Popular Contention in Great Britain: 1758 - 1834
As he unravels the story of thousands of popular struggles and their consequences, he illuminates the dynamic relationships among an industrializing, capitalizing, proletarianizing economy; a war-making, growing, increasingly ...
Charles Tilly, 2005
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Contention in Context: Political Opportunities and the ...
By examining new directions in the study of protest and contention, this book shows that although political opportunities can help explain the emergence of certain kinds of movements, a new strategic language can ultimately tell us far more ...
James Jasper, Jeff Goodwin, 2011
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Class, Contention, and a World in Motion
"The authors challenge currently dominant approaches to migration, and offer important ways to move between the individual experience and the structure of the world system."---Alan Smart, University of Calgary --
Winnie Lem, Pauline Gardiner Barber, 2010
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Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, ...
Addresses the questions: What might be the role of the artist in the 21st century? How essential is art to the psychic and political well-being of American society?
Carol Becker, 1996
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Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap ...
Thaxton argues that the memory of the great famine under Mao shaped villagers' resistance to the socialist state.
Ralph Thaxton, 2008
10
Partisan Publics: Communication and Contention Across ...
Communication and Contention Across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks Ann Mische. the emergence of different sets of institutional actors. Drawing on my questionnaire data, I use the algebraic technique of Galois lattice analysis to examine ...
Ann Mische, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONTENTION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term contention is used in the context of the following news items.
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Contention about where weapon was found heats gun trial
TRENTON >> A fusillade of gun cases regularly make their way through the city's judicial turnstiles. This one turns on a shot a Trenton defense ... «The Trentonian, Jul 15»
2
Monson: Ideology of a franchise - The Salt Lake Tribune
The normally open-minded Dennis Lindsey is convinced the quickest, steadiest route to consistent winning and eventual contention, as he said ... «Salt Lake Tribune, Jul 15»
3
Three Notre Dame Upperclassmen In Contention For Defensive Award
Three Notre Dame defenders were included on the Chuck Bednarik Award preseason watch list released Tuesday morning. Linebacker Jaylon ... «247Sports, Jul 15»
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CAMBRAI, France: The Latest: Pinot out of contention at Tour de …
The Latest: Pinot out of contention at Tour de France. By SAMUEL PETREQUIN. AP Sports WriterJuly 7, 2015 Updated 12 hours ago. 2015-07-07T17:46:43Z. «The Idaho Statesman, Jul 15»
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A's continuing slow trek back to contention
NEW YORK -- Athletics manager Bob Melvin subscribes to the theory that, after all the numbers are analyzed, subjected to the latest algorithms ... «MLB.com, Jul 15»
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Central Yorkshire League: Cooper's blast keeps Saints in contention
FOUR of the Championship's top five teams meet on Saturday as a wide-open title race hots up. Leaders Hopton Mills visit Oulton and ... «Yorkshire Evening Post, Jul 15»
7
The Kashmir contention - The Nation
I have been a fan of the Aman ki Asha initiative for a while now. Peace is indeed the only sane answer to our international squabbles. The two ... «The Nation, Jul 15»
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Tony Martin moves into Tour lead but Froome remains in contention
Tony Martin won the fourth stage of the Tour de France and stole into an overall lead after a gruelling day on the cobbles, which saw Chris ... «The Times, Jul 15»
9
San Jose Sharks Back In Contention Mode After Offseason …
The San Jose Sharks have been a franchise suffering from an identity crisis following their crushing defeat at the hands of the Los Angeles ... «Blades of Teal, Jul 15»
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The Ashes 2015: Peter Siddle fights back into contention, deserves …
PETER Siddle's international career appeared as good as over when he was dropped just one Test into last summer. With his pace down and ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»

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