debate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dɪˈbeɪt/    美 /dɪˈbeɪt/|/di-/|/də-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. countable,uncountable
    — After a four-hour debate, the committee voted to table the motion.
  2. An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views. countable,uncountable
    — The debate over the age of the universe is thousands of years old.
  3. Discussion of opposing views. uncountable
    — There has been considerable debate concerning exactly how to format these articles.
  4. 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. countable,uncountable
  5. Strife, discord. countable,obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena. ambitransitive,reciprocal
    — "Debate me, coward!" snarled the completely normal intellectual.
  2. To fight. intransitive,obsolete,reciprocal
    — Well knew they both his person, sith of late / With him in bloudie armes they rashly did debate.
  3. To engage in combat for; to strive for. obsolete,transitive
    — Volunteers […] thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardour in Spain as on the plains of Palestine.
  4. To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide transitive
    — He was debating where he'd spend his holiday.

词形变化

debates present,singular,third-person debating participle,present debated participle,past debated past debates plural

词汇关系

衍生词
debatability debatable debater debatingly mass debate outdebate redebate undebating antidebate balloon debate debate bro debateful Debategate debatelord debatey make-debate metadebate nondebate postdebate predebate pseudodebate self-debate
相关词
abate batter battery battle combat debatable debation

词源

词源 1
From Middle English debaten, from Old French debatre (“to fight, contend, debate, also literally to beat down”), from Romanic desbattere, from Latin dis- (“apart, in different directions”) + battuō (“to beat, to fence”).
词源 2
From Middle English debat, borrowed from Old French debat, deverbal of debatre, see Etymology 1 for more.
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