debate
IPA: dʌbˈeɪt
noun
- An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
- An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
- (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
- (frequently in the French form débat) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
- (obsolete) Strife, discord.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, reciprocal) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
- (obsolete, intransitive, reciprocal) To fight.
- (obsolete, transitive) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
- (transitive) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
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Examples of "debate" in Sentences
- That was the essence of the debate.
- The result of the debate was 'discussion aborted'.
- The maturity of debate within the forum is astounding.
- The ideal librarian opens the debate, opens the discussion.
- Gently bring the discussion back to the content of the debate.
- Don't discuss, just try to squelch the other side of the debate.
- In either case, dressing the whole thing up in "debate" is futile.
- It is not a forum for debates or for argument from personal incredulity.
- A lot of the facts, discussion, and debate postdate the older discussion.
- That's what the "lifestyle change" debate is code for in the green space.
- Pinkerton discovered the furlough issue by watching the Felt Forum debate.
- It seems you are following the Richard Conlin "debate is over!" talking point.
- One good litmus test in debate is to quantify the hypocrisy, then take note of who is turning a blind eye.
- Robert Potts, who recently retired as chancellor at Arkansas State University, witnessed the nickname debate in two states.
- Joking apart, however, these discussions are usually rendered nugatory by each debater attaching a different meaning to the word.
- But I do think, you know, when you compare - the word debate is, you know, in terms of Twitter will instantly be compared to television.
- The term "debate" itself was debatable: the two agreed on so much that some viewers wondered if they were seeing the genesis of a Gingrich-Huntsman presidential ticket - the gruff elder statesman and the photogenic former governor.
- I think that there's room for debate about what is or isn't appropriate for public calling-out, but I think that the word *debate* there is key - not just running with a default assumption of anything possibly hurtful = bad = verboten.
- One form might claim that the idea of a significant debate is generated by unsupported or unsupportable philosophical theses about the relationship of the experiencing and minded subject to their world, and that once these theses are exorcised the ˜debate™ will gradually wither away.