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CHALLENGE
challenge
(noun) a demand by a sentry for a password or identification
challenge
(noun) questioning a statement and demanding an explanation; “his challenge of the assumption that Japan is still our enemy”
challenge
(noun) a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror
challenge
(noun) a call to engage in a contest or fight
challenge
(noun) a demanding or stimulating situation; “they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power”
challenge, take exception
(verb) raise a formal objection in a court of law
challenge
(verb) ask for identification; “The illegal immigrant was challenged by the border guard”
challenge
(verb) issue a challenge to; “Fischer challenged Spassky to a match”
challenge, dispute, gainsay
(verb) take exception to; “She challenged his claims”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
challenge (plural challenges)
A confrontation; a dare.
An instigation or antagonization 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.
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.
(legal) A procedure or action.
(legal, rare) A judge's interest in the result of the case for which he or she should not be allowed to sit the case, e.g. a conflict of interest.
(US) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
(hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
Verb
challenge (third-person singular simple present challenges, present participle challenging, simple past and past participle challenged)
(transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
(transitive) To dare (someone).
(transitive) To dispute (something).
(legal, transitive) To make a formal objection to a juror.
(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.
Synonyms
• becall, call out
Source: Wiktionary
Chal"lenge, n. Etym: [OE. chalenge claim, accusation, challenge, OF. chalenge, chalonge, claim, accusation, contest, fr. L. calumnia false accusation, chicanery. See Calumny.]
1. An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. A challenge to controversy. Goldsmith.
2. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
3. A claim or demand. [Obs.] There must be no challenge of superiority. Collier.
4. (Hunting)
Definition: The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
5. (Law)
Definition: An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause. Blackstone
6. An exception to a person as not legally qualifed to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. [U. S.] Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel.
– Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it.
– Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned.
– Peremptory challenge, a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning any cause.
– Principal challenge, that which the law allows to be sufficient if found to be true.
Chal"lenge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Challenged; p. pr. & vb. n. Challenging.] Etym: [OE. chalengen to accuse, claim, OF. chalengier, chalongier, to claim, accuse, dispute, fr. L. calumniar to attack with false accusations. See Challenge, n., and cf. Calumniate.]
1. To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy. I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by right of fatherhood. Locke.
2. To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat. By this I challenge him to single fight. Shak.
3. To claim as due; to demand as a right. Challenge better terms. Addison.
4. To censure; to blame. [Obs.] He complained of the emperors . . . and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from them. Holland.
5. (Mil.)
Definition: To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there"
6. To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
7. (Law)
Definition: To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.
8. To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualifed as a voter. [U. S.] To challenge to the array, favor, polls. See under Challenge, n.
Chal"lenge, v. i.
Definition: To assert a right; to claim a place. Where nature doth with merit challenge. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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