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Debate   /dəbˈeɪt/   Listen
Debate

noun
1.
A discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal.  Synonyms: argument, argumentation.
2.
The formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote).  Synonyms: disputation, public debate.
verb
(past & past part. debated; pres. part. debating)
1.
Argue with one another.  "John debated Mary"
2.
Think about carefully; weigh.  Synonyms: consider, deliberate, moot, turn over.  "Turn the proposal over in your mind"
3.
Discuss the pros and cons of an issue.  Synonym: deliberate.
4.
Have an argument about something.  Synonyms: argue, contend, fence.



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"Debate" Quotes from Famous Books



... powdered faces in which the eyes looked intensely alive and black. And first Don Juste Lopez, the President of the Provincial Assembly, passed with his three lovely daughters, solemn in a black frock-coat and stiff white tie, as when directing a debate from a high tribune. Though they all raised their eyes, Antonia did not make the usual greeting gesture of a fluttered hand, and they affected not to see the two young people, Costaguaneros with European manners, whose eccentricities were ...
— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad
... "I don't propose to debate this further," rejoined Murrell haughtily. Instantly the colonel's jaw became rigid. The masterful airs of this cutthroat out of the hills irked him beyond ...
— The Prodigal Judge • Vaughan Kester
... get them all to laughing, only the argument was never a very long one. One day it occurred to him that the debates were short because the others didn't hold up their end. He was talking for the fireless cooker—if it was going to be a real debate, they ought to speak up for the husband. But there seemed to be so much less to be said for a husband than there was for a fireless cooker. This struck him as really quite funny, but it seemed it was a joke he had to enjoy by himself. Sometimes when he came home pretty tired—for ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... the House of Lords. One is reminded of the saying of Daniel O'Connell, "If it took twenty years to do nothing, how long would it take to do anything?" In the House of Commons, Mr. Townshend said in the debate that facts had come to his knowledge which would awaken the compassion of the most callous heart. Mr. Mackworth said that the scenes of distress lay hid indeed in obscure corners, but he was convinced that if gentlemen were once to see them, they would not rest a day ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke
... after a long and exciting debate, was declared a delegate, but the next day, to please the malcontents, the National Labor Congress made clear by resolution that it did not regard itself as endorsing her peculiar ideas or committing itself to the question of female suffrage, but simply regarded her as a representative ...
— The Trade Union Woman • Alice Henry


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