Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Dispute

Definition: Dispute

Dispute

Noun

1. A disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats".

2. Coming into conflict with.

Verb

1. Take exception to; "She challenged his claims".

2. Have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These tewo fellows are always scrapping over something".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dispute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)


Specialty Definition: Dispute

DomainDefinition

Dream Interpretation

To dream of holding disputes over trifles, indicates bad health and unfairness in judging others.
To dream of disputing with learned people, shows that you have some latent ability, but are a little sluggish in developing it. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Language

The act of disputing or arguing against; active verbal contention, controversery, debate. . . . It is a common matter of dispute whether landed estates should be large or small. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Dispute (2 syl.) means, literally, to "lop down" (Latin, dis-puto); debate means to "knock down" (French, débattre); discuss means to "shake down" (Latin, dis-quatio); object' is to "cast against" (Latin, ob-jacio); contend is to "pull against" (Latin, contendo); quarrel is to throw darts at each other (Welsh, cwarel, a dart); and wrangle is to strain by twisting (Swedish, vrnga; Anglo-Saxon, wringan). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Synonyms: Dispute

Synonyms: conflict (n), contravention (n), difference (n), difference of opinion (n), altercate (v), argufy (v), challenge (v), gainsay (v), quarrel (v), scrap (v). (additional references)

Top     

Synonyms within Context: Dispute

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Certainty

Indubious; without doubt, beyond a doubt, without a shade or shadow of doubt, without question, beyond question; past dispute; clear as day; beyond all question, beyond all dispute; undoubted, uncontested, unquestioned, undisputed; questionless, doubtless.

Discord

Subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point; bone of contention, bone to pick; apple of discord, casus belli; question at issue; (subject of inquiry); vexed question, vexata quaestio, brand of discord.

Quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie, squabble, altercation, barney, demel_, snarl, spat, towrow, words, high words; wrangling; Verb: jangle, brabble, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap; family jars.

Fall out, quarrel, dispute; litigate; controvert; (deny); squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle, bicker, nag; spar; (contend); have words; n. with; fall foul of.

Inquiry

Undetermined, untried, undecided; in question, in dispute, in issue, in course of inquiry; under discussion, under consideration, under investigation; Noun: sub judice, moot, proposed; doubtful; (uncertain).

Question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism; subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy; point in dispute, matter in dispute; moot point; issue, question at issue; bone of contention; (discord); plain question, fair question, open question; enigma; (secret); knotty point; (difficulty); quodlibet; threshold of an inquiry.

Lawsuit

Noun: lawsuit, suit, action, cause; litigation; suit in law; dispute.

Negation

Dispute; impugn, traverse, rebut, join issue upon; bring in question, call in question; (doubt); give (one) the lie in his throat.

Reasoning,

Verb: reason, argue, discuss, debate, dispute, wrangle- argufy, bandy words, bandy arguments; chop logic; hold an argument, carry on an argument; controvert; (deny); canvass; comment upon, moralize upon; spiritualize; consider; (examine).

Unbelief Doubt

Throw doubt upon, raise a question; bring in, call in question; question, challenge, dispute; deny; cavil; cause a doubt, raise a doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion; ergotize.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     

Crosswords: Dispute

English words defined with "dispute": A bone of contention, A bone to pick, accepted, Affair of honor, arguing, argument, at loggerheads, At oddsBrangle, Breach of trustChevisance, circumstantial evidence, conflict, Congression, contend, contention, contentious, contest, contestation, Controverse, controversydifference, difference of opinion, Digladiate, direct evidence, Disputacity, disputatious, disputative, Disputeless, Disputing, Disputison, Dissert, dustupElenchize, Ex parte councilfiddling, fight, footlingHard panin dispute, indirect evidence, indisputability, indisputable, indubitability, infantile autism, intercession, intervention, Iran-Iraq War, issueLilliputian, litigious, little, LuzMickey Mouse, Mononychus olecranusneutral, neutrality, nigglingout-of-court settlementpetty, picayune, piddling, piffling, polemic, polemical, Politize, position, Prejudicationquarrelrepresent, repugn, row, run-insettle, settled, side, Spute, stickle, suretilt, To chop logic, To the question, To word it, Trial by certificate, trivialundisputed, unquestionability, unquestionablenessVelitationwords, wrangle. (references)
Specialty definitions using "dispute": Accounts, ADR, Advisory Committee On Export Policy, Animal identification and traceback, AUSTRALIAcompromis, Contemptible, Contemptuous, contradictory procedure, ControversyDebateable Land, Demarcation Tribunal, Dignus Vindice Nodus, Dispute Settlement Body, DSBEmployed persons, Eucharistfeature key, flame war, Flecknoe, FMCSgranitizationHave it OutIMMORTALITYlock-out, lode claimMerlo, Mother-in-lawPontius Pilate's Body-Guard, post-dispute agreement to arbitrateRose SundaySimon Magus, solidarity strike, Standing Appellate Body, StoicsText, Triplets. (references)
Etymologies containing "dispute": Disputable, Disputacity, DisputationElenchizelitigation, litigiousPolitize, PutativeSpute. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Dispute" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (argument, conflict, contest, disputation, dispute, disputes, fight, fray, hassle, quarrel, row, ruction, spar, squabble, squall, strife, struggle, tangle, wrangle).

Top     

Modern Usage: Dispute

DomainUsage

Screenplays

That ruthless bastard offered me a 5-year contract, paid vacation, a huge signing bonus, all to make a dispute over slipcovers go away. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

Lyrics

Any dispute, don't hesitate to produce handguns (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM)

So why dispute me and waste my time (Free Your Mind; performing artist: En Vogue)

Clever

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

A Chess Dispute (1903)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Commercial Usage: Dispute

DomainTitle

Books

  • Neither Confirm Nor Deny: The Nuclear Ships Dispute Between New Zealand and the United States (reference)

  • National Treatment and Wto Dispute Settlement: Adjudicating the Boundaries of Regulatory Autonomy (reference)

  • Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy (reference)

  • Med-Arb: A Viable Dispute Resolution Alternative (reference)

  • Documentary history of the Tacna-Arica dispute (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Image Slideshow: Dispute

Photos:
Dispute

More pictures...

Illustrations:
Dispute

More pictures...

Computer Images:
Dispute

More pictures...

Top     

Photo Album: Dispute

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

A minor dispute among sea lions. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

The Imposter, or Obstetric Dispute. / [George Cruikshank]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Sign in front of mountaineer's home announcing the end of the dispute or feud with one of his neighbors. Up Squabble Creek, near Buckhorn, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Top     

Familiar Quotations: Dispute

AuthorQuotation

Alexander Pope

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

Aristotle

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.

Benjamin Franklin

When knaves fall out, honest men get their goods; when priests dispute, we come to the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Horace

Scholars dispute and the case is still before the courts.

Shenstone

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

William Penn

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Historic Usage: Dispute

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

If anyone has been dispossessed or removed by us, without the legal judgment of his peers, from his lands, castles, franchises, or from his right, we will immediately restore them to him; and if a dispute arise over this, then let it be decided by the five and twenty barons of whom mention is made below in the clause for securing the peace. (reference)

John Locke

1690

The conqueror indeed will be apt to think himself master: and it is the very condition of the subdued not to be able to dispute their right. (Second Treatise of Government)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The Council may in any case under this Article refer the dispute to the Assembly. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Non-Fiction Usage: Dispute

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Embassy, and Jiangxi officials to resolve the dispute. (references)

However, dispute resolution can be difficult and uncertain. (references)

Under NAFTA, the first step in dispute settlement is consultations. (references)

Civil Liberties

Uzbekistan

The station was attempting to resolve the dispute at year's end. (references)

Cuba

It is highly unusual for police to impose house arrest in a domestic dispute. (references)

Bangladesh

Ali apparently had a running dispute with one of his cousins over the ownership of land. (references)

Economic History

Tanzania

The number of dead remains under dispute. (references)

Moldova

Resolution of this dispute is still unclear. (references)

Pakistan

The status of Kashmir has remained in dispute. (references)

Human Rights

Honduras

The land farmed by the cooperative is under dispute. (references)

Mexico

The eviction reportedly was the result of a 1997 land dispute. (references)

Togo

Kpizia reportedly complained publicly of Gnassingbe's intervention in a civil dispute. (references)

Indigenous People

Bangladesh

On April 4, 1 person died and 10 were injured in a clash between Khasis and Bengalis in a land dispute in Moulavibazar. (references)

Malaysia

Without assistance from independent surveyors, the NGO contends that indigenous people are powerless legally to dispute encroachment on their land. (references)

Colombia

There was little exploration activity during the year due to security problems unrelated to the dispute with the U'wa, and no large demonstrations against the project were reported. (references)

Minorities

Ghana

The dispute arose days earlier after shrine members accused a Christian woman of witchcraft. (references)

Cambodia

Also in March, a provincial judge ruled against ethnic hill tribe villagers in a land dispute. (references)

Ghana

In 2000 four persons were killed after a conflict over a chieftancy dispute in Weija (Greater Accra Region). (references)

Political Economy

Uae

The UAE seeks to resolve this dispute through peaceful means. (references)

GHANA

It also provides guarantees against expropriation or forced sale and delineates dispute arbitration processes. (references)

BRAZIL

The principal point of contention seems to be objection by the legislative branch over dispute settlement language. (references)

Political Rights

Egypt

In late October, the Committee withdrew recognition from the small Arab Egyptian Socialist Party, also reportedly due to a leadership dispute, and closed the party newspaper, Gariidat Misr. (references)

Togo

Chief among them was a settlement of the dispute over the seriously flawed June 1998 presidential election in which the vote count was stopped and President Eyadema declared the winner by the Interior Minister. (references)

Yemen

In two separate incidents in Taiz governorate on February 21, four persons were killed in the GPC-Islaah exchange of gunfire, and four security officials were wounded when a dispute over vote counting reportedly turned violent. (references)

Trade

Guyana

In August 2000, OPIC also resumed coverage to Guyana after settling a long-running dispute with the government. (references)

Mexico

Although the importer may fail to honor his agreement, it method provides a documented trail in case of a dispute. (references)

Egypt

Importers have the right to take legal action against Customs Authorities in the event of a dispute regarding appropriate valuation. (references)

Travel

Ecuador

Under Ecuadorian law, a business dispute that normally would be handled by civil litigation in the United States may be converted into a criminal proceeding. (references)

Women

Oman

Many women are reluctant to take an inheritance dispute to court for fear of alienating the family. (references)

Seychelles

Police seldom intervene in domestic disputes, unless the dispute involves a weapon or major assault. (references)

Worker Rights

Ghana

Parties in a dispute may request compulsory arbitration. (references)

Belize

At year's end, the dispute was submitted to an arbitration panel. (references)

Jordan

Strikes are prohibited if a labor dispute is under mediation or arbitration. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Top     

Spoken Usage: Dispute

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Richard Shelby

Well, that's in dispute. You know, we've heard that he did, and we've been told in intelligence circles that it didn't happen, and it didn't happen that way.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Speeches: Dispute

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837Appropriations for similar objects have been continued from that time to the present without interruption or dispute.

Rutherford Hayes

1877-1881This is to be anticipated in every instance where matters of dispute are made the subject of arbitration under the forms of law.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Usage Frequency: Dispute

"Dispute" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.27% of the time. "Dispute" is used about 2,931 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)91.27%2,6753,430
Lexical Verb (infinitive)6.51%19122,216
Lexical Verb (base form)2.08%6143,149
Noun (proper)0.07%2245,945
Noun (common)0.07%2245,945
                    Total100.00%2,931N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Derived & Related Names: Dispute

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "dispute".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
MeribahN/ABiblical

Dispute

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

Top     

Expressions: Dispute

Expressions using "dispute": beyond dispute demarcation dispute hold a dispute on hot dispute in a dispute with in dispute industrial dispute it is beyond dispute labor dispute labour dispute matter in dispute out of dispute settle a dispute settlement of dispute the matter in dispute wage dispute without dispute. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "dispute": dispute-resolution, dispute-resolving, dispute-settlement, dispute-settlements, dispute-settling, dispute-solving.

Ending with "dispute": post-dispute, priority-dispute.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dispute

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

credit report dispute

225

employment dispute

18

dispute resolution

182

equifax and dispute

18

alternative dispute resolution

148

dispute lumber softwood

18

credit dispute

118

credit dispute letter sample

16

dispute

100

alaska boundary dispute

15

credit dispute letter

71

center for dispute resolution

14

credit dispute form

46

insurance dispute

14

dispute letter

40

dispute letter sample

14

landlord tenant dispute

37

dispute experian

14

credit report dispute form

30

property dispute

11

neighbor dispute

26

workplace dispute

10

labor dispute

25

dispute trans union

10

domain name dispute

23

boundary dispute

9

credit card dispute

23

union dispute

9

dispute kashmir

23

dispute experian.com results.html yourcredit

9

property line dispute

22

construction dispute

8

contract dispute

22

bureau credit dispute letter

8

credit report dispute letter

21

domestic dispute

8

alternative contact dispute

21

domain name dispute resolution

7

credit bureau dispute

19

nasd dispute resolution

7

alternate dispute resolution

19

credit repair dispute letter

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: Dispute

Language Translations for "dispute"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

kwessie (quarrel, question). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

debatoj, diskutim (argument, argumentation, assessment, canvass, contest, contestation, debate, deliberation, discussion, disputation, eristic, logomachy, talk, treatment), diskutoj (assess, canvass, confer, consult, counsel, debate, deliberate, discuss, expostulate, moot, negotiate, quarrel, reason, talk over, think over, thrash out), debat (controversy, debate, disputation, eristic, hassle, proceedings), konflikt (clash, collision, conflict, contravention, strife), grindem (altercate, Bicker, brawl, cample, carp, differ, disagree, fall out, fight, find fault with, fray, fret, grizzle, grouse, have words with, Pule, quarrel, spat, swear, wrangle), grindje (altercation, bickering, blowup, bobbery, brawl, breach, breeze, broil, contention, contest, disagreement, discord, disputation, dissension, feud, fight, fray, friction, jar, quarrel, squabble, strife, variance, wrangle), hedh poshtë (censure, confute, contradict, controvert, decline, demolish, detrude, disclaim, disprove, knock out, push aside, rebut, refute, reject, repudiate, sweep away, turn down, wave aside), vë në dyshim (challenge, impeach, impugn, question), konkurroj (compete, contend, vie), kundërshtoj (censure, challenge, combat, condemn, contest, contradict, controvert, counter, cross, demur, deprecate, discountenance, discourage, flout, fly in the face of, gainsay, impugn, kick, mind, object, oppose, oppugn, protest, react, rebel, rebuke, rebut, recalcitrate, refuse, resist, retort, set one's face against, stick to, stickle, Stonewall, take exception to), luftoj (combat, contend, correct, debate, fight, militate, oppugn, ramp, stand up for, strive, struggle, thrash about, war, wrestle), përpiqem të fitoj (contest, woo), polemizoj, rezistoj (endure, fend, hold out, rebel, rebuff, resist, tolerate, withstand), hahem (compete, contend, emulate, quarrel, rival, scuffle, vie). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حاول إنتزاع, ‏جدال (altercation, argument, argute, controversy, debate), ‏خصام (argument, contention, contest, contestation, quarrel, row, ruction, squabble, war), ‏خصومة (antagonism, enmity, hostility, quarrel), ‏خلاف (clash, conflict, contention, contest, controversy, difference, disaccord, disagreement, discord, discordance, dissension, dissidence, disunion, disunity, division, friction, odds, quarrel, question, strife, variance), ‏تجادل (argue, debate, quarrel, squabble, wrangle), ‏شك (discount, discredit, doubt, fall under suspicion, incertitude, inkling, misgiving, odor, odour, qualms, query, question, scepticism, scrupulosity, smell a rat, suspicion, unbelief, uncertainty, wonder), ‏تنازع (argue, spar, squabble), ‏مناقشة (argumentation, debate, discussion, talk), ‏ناقش (agitate, argue, bat, canvass, converse, debate, discuss, join issue with, moot, oppugn, powwow, question, set about, speak, talk, talk over, ventilate), ‏نزاع (contention, contest, controversy, difference, disagreement, discord, discordance, disputation, division, duel, embroilment, fray, odds, quarrel, question, row, spar, squall, strife, struggle, tangle, variance, wont), ‏هاجم (assault, attack, batter, belabour, beset, challenge, charge, contravene, hit, jump, lace, layabout, light into, mount an offensive, peck, press, prey on, prong, rush, set about, storm, strafe, strike), ‏مشاكسة (grumpiness, petulance, quarrel, wrangle), ‏مناظرة (controversy, debate, discussion, disputation), ‏مناقشات (debate, discussions, parley, talks), ‏تناظر (symmetry). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

споря (altercate, argue, cample, contend, contest, debate, expostulate, higgle, jar, palter, polemize), спор (altercation, argument, argumentation, contention, contest, contestation, controversy, difference, ding-dong, disputation, dissension, fight, jar, polemic, rift, run in, strife, variance, velitation, word, words), разисквам (agitate, discuss, moot, parley, reason, talk about, treat of), конфликт (conflict, difference, interference), оспорване (contestation, contravention, impugnment, litigation), оспорвам (call down, contest, contravene, controvert, debate, gainsay, impugn, litigate, oppugn, query, question), обсъждане (agitation, argumentation, canvass, conference, consideration, consultation, deliberation, discussion, parley, powwow), боря се за (champion, contest, stand for), препирам се (altercate, spar, wrangle), полемика (argument, controversy, polemic, polemics), полемизирам (polemize), дебати (deliberations), диспут (contest). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

辯駁 (refute), (argue, debate, discuss), (argue, contradict, parti-colored, refute, tranship), 糾葛 (entanglement), 糾紛 (issue, to dispute), 爭議 (controversy), 爭端 (conflict, controversy), 爭執 (disagree), 爭吵 (strife), 争执 (Disputed, Disputing). (various references)

   

Czech

  

debatovat (canvass, debate, talk), spor (argument, clash, conflict, contention, controversy, disagreement, discord, fight, fray, litigation, quarrel, strife, wrangle), rozepře, polemika (argument, polemic), přít se (contest, palter, quarrel, spar, wrangle), kontroverze (controversy, disagreement), hádka (altercation, argument, brawl, brush, bust up, ding-dong, fight, hassle, quarrel, row, scrap, set to, skirmish, squabble, strife, wrangle), hádat se (argue, be at odds with, brawl, quarrel, scrap, wrangle), brát v pochybnost (impugn). (various references)

   

Danish

  

skænderi (quarrel). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

twisten (argue, twist), krakelen (argue, quarrel, wrangle), disputeren (argue). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

disputo (quarrel), disputi (argue). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

orðadráttur (quarrel), kjakast (argue), kjak (quarrel). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مشاجره (Contention, Contest, Pique, Plea, Scuffle, Wrangle), مباحثه کردن (Debate, Dissert), چون وچرا, نزاع (Affray, Battle, Contention, Discord, Fray, Quarrel, Scrap, Scuffle, Spar, Squeal, Strife, Tousle, War, Warfare, Wrangle), ستیزه (Conflict, Contention, Controversy, Disputation, Melee, Quarrel, Squabble, Strife), جدال کردن , انکارکردن (Deny, Disclaim, Gainsay, Renege, Renounce, Repudiate, Unsay). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

väittely (argument, debate), väitellä (argue, debate), sanasota (controversy, war of words), sanakiista (controversy), riita (controversy, disagreement, feud, quarrel, row, squabble, wrangle), rettelö (difficulties, tangle, trouble), kiistellä (argue), kiistää (deny), kiista (controversy, quarrel, strife), eittää (contest, deny). (various references)

   

French

  

dispute (disputation, disputes), se disputer, différend (difference of opinion, differentially, differing, disagreement, discord, discriminative). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

arbeidsskeel (labor dispute, labour dispute). (various references)

   

German

  

streiten (altercate, argue, battle, compete, conflict, contend, fight, quarrel, quarreling, squabble, take legal action, to altercate, to argue, to combat, to contend, to dispute, to quarrel, tussle, wrangle), streit (argument, battle, Bicker, breeze, conflict, confliction, contention, contestation, controversy, disagreement, discord, feud, fight, moot, quarrel, squabble, strife, wrangle), disputieren (argue, contend, to contend), disput (quarrel). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

διένεξη. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מחלוקת (altercation, contention, controversy, disagreement, discord, disputation, dissension, division, polemics, quarrel, variance), מ"ון (altercation, contention, quarrel, strife), לערער (appeal, appeal against, subvert, undercut), לחלוק על (be at odds with, differ, disagree, dissent, impugn, join issue with, oppose, part company, take issue with), ל"תוכח (argue, debate, discuss, join issue with, plead), ל"תפלמס (argue, spar), ל"ת צח (argue, debate, polemize, spar, struggle, wrangle, wrestle), פלפול (argumentation, casuistry, debate), "סתכסכות (conflict, quarrel), ריב (conflict, contention, dissension, fight, odds, quarrel, squabble, strife), סכסוך (altercation, argument, conflict, feud, quarrel, strife). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vita (argument, battle of words, contention, contest, controversy, debate, discussion, disputation, hassle, moot, parley, polemics, quarrel, reasoning, snap), vitatkozás. (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

rifrildi (quarrel). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

silang sengketa, memperbantahkan, membantahkan (debate). (various references)

   

Italian

  

disputare (argue, challenge, contest, debate, discuss, haggle, question, wrangle), disputa (argument, contention, debate, discussion, disputation, quarrel, wrangle), discutere (argue, debate, discuss, moot, parley, reason, talk over, treat), dibattimento, vertenza (case, lawsuit), controversia (contention, controversy), contestazione (controversy, notification, protest), contestare (challenge, contest, deny, question), bega. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

紛争 (strife, trouble), 抗争 (resistance). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いさかい (quarrel), もめ (quarrel, trouble), も"ちゃく (quarrel, trouble), もめ"と (friction, quarrel, trouble), ろ" (argument, comment, controversy, debate, discourse, discussion, doctrine, essay, theory, treatise), ろ"そう (controversy, treatise or essay collection), あらそい (conflict, contest, dissension, quarrel, rivalry, strife), あらそい"と, "うろ" (intelligent opinion, public opinion, quarrel, unbiased criticism, your esteemed opinion), けいそう (a conflict, a dispute, aspect, contention, controversy, diatom, features, flighty, form, instrumentation, lightweight equipment or dress, look, phase, relay race, thoughtless), いいあい (quarrel), ぎろ" (argument, discussion), ふ"じょう (disturbance, powder, pulverized, trouble), ふ"そう (disguise, get-up, make-up, strife, trouble), ふうは (quarrel, rough seas, storm, trouble, wind and waves), くちけ"か (quarrel), くち'"か (quarrel), そうろ" (argument, controversy, general remarks), そうぎ (funeral service, quarrel, strike), おしも"どう (heated questioning and answering), "うそう (conception, confused fighting, frost, good running, grand, high and dry ground, high priest, hurrying, idea, imperial ancestors, imposing, magnificent, muzzle loading gun, ore bed, plan, plot, public funeral, red algae, resistance, rhodophyceae, sailing, school funeral, sending back or sending later, spice used for cooking, upper, virtuous priest). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

논박 (Disputing). (various references)

   

Manx

  

argane (argument). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

krangel (quarrel). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isputeday

   

Polish

  

spierać się. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

disputa (argument, contention, contest, controversy, difference, difficulty, disputation, fight, odds, quarrel, question, rivalry, scene, squabble, tilt, wrangle), disputar (argue, Bicker, contest, disagree, fight, passage, put up with, quarrel, rencontre, rencounter, run, spar). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

diferend (strife), dezbatere (agitation, canvass, debate, deliberation, discussion, fencing, quarrel), discuţie (altercation, argument, argumentation, canvass, confabulation, conversation, counsel, debate, dialogue, discourse, discussion, quarrel, reasoning, row, splutter, talk), discuta (agitate, argue, confabulate, converse, debate upon, deliberate, discuss, go through, haggle, impugn, moot, negotiate, powwow, question, reason, speak, talk, talk over), disputa (claim, contest, debate, oppugn, strive), disputã (close contest, contention, contest, contestation, controversy, disputation, duet, issue, splutter, strife), dezbate (agitate, argue, beat out, break, canvass, contest, controvert, criticize, debate, fall, review), polemicã (paper war, polemic), se certa (altercate, be at odds, brawl, fall foul of, fall out, go foul of, haggle, jangle, quarrel, row, run foul of, spar, squabble, wrangle), zarvã (ado, affray, altercation, bobbery, brawling, bustle, clutter, din, dust, fuss, hubbub, kerfuffle, noise, pother, racket, riot, row, rumpus, scandal, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar), sfadã (feud, quarrel, squabble), cârcotã (discord, strife, wrangle), controversã (argument, contention, contest, controversy, debate, disputation), contesta (challenge, contest, impugn, litigate, oppugn, question), conflict (clash, collision, conflict, encounter, fray, friction, jar, quarrel, strife, struggle, war), combate (combat, confute, control, fight, repel), clenci (artifice, belt hook, crook, hook, quarrel, thorn), ceartã (altercation, Bicker, bobbery, brawl, breeze, broil, conflict, contention, controversy, discord, discussion, dissension, friction, jangle, loggerhead, misunderstanding, quarrel, row, scrap, set to, squabble, squall, Stour, strife, tussle, wrangle). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

спорить (argue, be at cross-purposes, bicker, chop logic, contest, debate, haggle, wrangle), спор (argument, argumentation, breeze, chaffer, contention, contest, controversy, disputation, dustup, row, splutter, strife, wrangle), оспаривать (call in question, contend, contend for, contest, contravene, controvert, impugn, litigate, oppugn), оказывать сопротивление (fight back, offer resistance, rebel, resist, stick up for, stick up to), обсуждение (consideration, discussion, discussion of, parley), обсуждать (canvass, confer, confer together, debate, discuss, discussing, moot, take up, talk over, think over, traverse, ventilate), пререкаться (brabble, cample, ruffle, squabble), пререкания (brabble, jangle, wrangle), препирательство (altercation), дискутировать (debate, discuss, moot, talk over), диспут (disputation). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

deasbud (a dispute, conference, debate), connsaich, comhaich, cònspaid (strife), cònsaich. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zavada (discord, feud, odds, quarrel), svađati se (altercate, brawl, fall out, natter, quarrel, spat), rasprava (argument, disagreement, discussion, disputation, polemic, question, thesis, tract, treatise, wrangle), osporiti (controvert, deny, question). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

disputar (contest, haggle, quarrel, vie, wrangle), disputa (argument, bicker, bickering, contention, debate, disputation, fight, haggling, strife, wrangle), discutir (agitate, argue, carry on, debate, discuss, lecture, talk out, talk over, talk through, treat), discusión (agitation, argument, argumentation, cample, conference, controversy, debate, discussion, disputation, haggling), protestar de (protest), pleito (action, brawl, case, cause, complaint, controversy, lawsuit, quarrel, suit, trial), expresar dudas, cuestionar (discuss, question), contencioso (contentious), conflicto (clash, conflict, struggle, trouble), altercado (altercation, disagreement, haggle). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tvist (contention, contestation, controversy, feud, quarrel, strife). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tartışmak (altercate, argue, bat around, Bicker, brawl, bust, canvass, challenge, contend, controvert, debate, discuss, have a row with, have a set-to, have words with smb., jangle, join issue with smb., moot, negotiate, set to, spar, take issue with smb., wrangle), tartışma (altercation, argument, argumentation, bickering, brawl, breeze, broil, bust up, contention, contest, contestation, controversy, cross talk, debate, disagreement, discussion, disputation, hassle, jangle, moot, parley, quarrel, rap, row, set to, shooting match, spar, sparring, teach-in, wordy warfare, wrangle), reddetmek (abnegate, cast off, challenge, controvert, damn, declare off, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disapprove, disavow, disdain, dismiss, disown, draw the line, fall down, gainsay, negate, negative, Nix, overrule, protest, quash, rebut, refuse, refute, reject, renege, renounce, repel, repudiate, rule out, scout, set aside, spurn, take objection to, throw out, turn back, turn down, turn thumbs down on, veto, wave aside), münakaşa etmek (argue, join issue with smb., spar, take issue with smb.), münakaşa (altercation, argument, argumentation, bickering, disputation, hassle, spat), kavga (affray, brawl, brawling, broil, bust up, conflict, contention, feud, fight, fighting, fray, jangle, jar, kick up, miff, odds, punch-up, quarrel, row, rumpus, scrap, scuffle, set to, shooting match, strife, tilt, unpleasantness, wrangle), karşı koymak (bear against, confront, contest, counter, counteract, counterwork, demur, face, face up to, fend, fight back, offer resistance, oppugn, refuse, resist, set against, stand, stand out, stand out against, stand up to, stick up to, withstand), itiraz etmek (argue, argue against smth., blow the whistle on, buck, challenge, contest, contravene, demur, deprecate, except, expostulate, gainsay, interpose, make an objection to, object, object to, oppose, protest, protest against, raise an objection to, remonstrate, take exception to, take objection to), ihtilaf (controversy, difference, disagreement, discord, dissension, disunion, disunity, scission, strife), şüphe etmek (be sceptical about, be sceptical of, be skeptical about, be skeptical of, doubt, have a suspicion that, impugn, misdoubt, mistrust, question, suspect), çekişmek (chaffer, compete, conflict, contend, contest, debate, higgle, quarrel, rival, strive with). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

зekeleюmek (argue, quarrel), зekeleюik (controversy, discussion). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сумніватися (demur, distrust, doubt, empeach, hesitate, impeach, question, scruple), спір (argumentation, contest, disputation), сперечатися (altercate, argue, bandy, contend, contest, jangle, squabble, thwart, wrangle), розбіжність у поглядах (disputation), обговорювати (air, bandy about, canvass, confer, consider, debate, moot, natter, parley, reason, ventilate), диспут (disputation). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự bất ho (discord, discordance, dissonance, disunion, division), sự bất đ"ng ý kiến, cuộc b n cãi (canvass, controversy, discussion). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

ymddadlau (contend), amau (doubt, suspect). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Ancestral Language Translations: Dispute

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

altercatio, alterceris, ambigebant, certamen, certamina, certamine, certamini, certaminibus, certaminis, certaminum, certo, concertatio, concertatur, controversia, decertarent, disceptabo, disceptaremini, disceptarent, disceptaret, disputare, disputatio, disputationi, iurgia, iurgio, iurgiorum, iurgium, litigatio, litigo, litis, pugna, pugnabant, pugnabat, pugnabimus, pugnabis, pugnabit, pugnabitis, pugnabo, pugnabunt, pugnando, pugnandum, pugnans, pugnant, pugnante, pugnantes, pugnantibus, pugnantium, pugnare, pugnarent, pugnaret, pugnas, pugnassent, pugnasset, pugnat, pugnate, pugnatis, pugnator, pugnatorum, pugnatque, pugnaturus, pugnaverimus, pugnaverit, pugnaverunt, pugnaveruntque, pugnavi, pugnavit, pugnavitque, pugnem, pugnemus, pugnes, pugnet, pugnetis, pugno, rixa, rixae, rixam, rixari, rixas, rixati, rixis, rixosa, velitatio. (various references)

Avestan200-600

pairithnem. (various references)

Old English450-1100

geflit. (various references)

Old French900-1400

chalenge, estriver. (various references)

French1500-Modern

contester. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Bible Trace: Dispute

LanguageDateSourceMark Chapter 9, Verse 16
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai ephrwthsen touV grammateiV ti suzhteite proV autouV
Latin405VulgateEt respondens unus de turba dixit magister adtuli filium meum ad te habentem spiritum mutum
Old English990West SaxonÐa axode he hyo. hwæt smeage gebe-tweox eow.
Middle English1395WyclifAnd oon of the cumpany answerde, and seide, Mayster, Y haue brouyt to thee my sone, that hath a doumbe spirit; and where euer he takith hym,
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd he sayde vnto the Scribes: what dispute ye with them?
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd he asked the scribes, What question ye with them?
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd he asked the scribes, What question ye with them?
Basic English1964OgdenAnd he said, What are you questioning them about?

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Matched Bible Translations: Dispute

LanguageMark Chapter 9, Verse 16
CebuanoUg siya nangutana kanila, "Unsa bay inyong gipakiglantugian kanila?"
Chinese耶 穌 問 他 們 說 、 們 ' 他 們 辯 論 的 是 " 麼 。
CroatianA on ih upita: " to to raspravljaste s njima?"
DanishOg han spurgte dem: "Hvorom tvistes I med dem?"
DutchEn Hij vraagde den Schriftgeleerden: Wat twist gij met dezen?
FinnishJa hän kysyi heiltä: "Mitä te väittelette heidän kanssaan?"
FrenchIl leur demanda: Sur quoi discutez-vous avec eux?
GaelicAgus dh` fhaighnich e dhiu: Ciod mu bheil sibh a consachadh ri cheile?
GermanUnd er fragte die Schriftgelehrten: Was befragt ihr euch mit ihnen?
Haitian CreoleLi mande disip li yo: -Sa n'ap diskite konsa?
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari"Apa yang kalian persoalkan dengan guru-guru agama itu?" tanya Yesus kepada pengikut-pengikut-Nya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaLalu Ia bertanya kepada mereka itu, "Apakah perkara yang kamu perbantahkan dengan orang ini?"
LatvianUn viens no ïauþu pulka atbildçja un sacîja: Mâcîtâj, es atvedu pie Tevis savu mçmâ gara apsçsto dçlu.
MaoriNa ka ui ia ki a ratou, He aha ta koutou e totohe na ki a ratou?
NorwegianOg han spurte dem: Hvad er det I tretter med dem om?
PortuguesePerguntou ele aos escribas: Que é que discutis com eles?   
RumanianEl i -a kntrebat: ,,Despre ce vq kntrebayi cu ei?``
RussianпО У ТПУЙМ ЛОЙЦОЙЛПЧ: П ЮЕН У ПТЙФЕ У ОЙНЙ?
ShuarTúrunawarmatai, Jesus chicharainiak, "Warí tunaiyarum?" Tímiayi.
SwahiliYesu akawauliza, "Mnajadiliana nini nao?"
SwedishDå frågade han dem: "Varom disputeren I med dem?"
UmaYesus mpekune' -ra: "Napa to nipomepekunei' hante guru agama toera?"

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Derivations & Misspellings: Dispute

Derivations

Words beginning with "dispute": disputed, disputer, disputers, disputes. (additional references)

Words containing "dispute": undisputed. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dispute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adispute, desoutter, despote, desputer, Dipteb, dipute, disapate, discuter, disepate, dispite, dispo, disponee, disputen, Disque, disupte, dysponea. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Rhyming with "Dispute"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "dispute" (pronounced di'spyuw"t)
4-p y uw" tcompute, disrepute, impute, repute.
3-y uw" tacute, Bute, Butte, commute, cute, mute, permute, refute, subacute.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Top     

Anagrams: Dispute

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-p-s-t-u"

-1 letter: duties, spited, stiped, stupid, suited, upside.

-2 letters: deist, diets, dites, duets, duits, dupes, edits, etuis, piste, pseud, setup, siped, sited, situp, spied, spite, spued, stied, stipe, stupe, suite, tepid, tides, upset.

-3 letters: dies, diet, dips, dipt, dite, dits, dues, duet, duit, dupe, dups, dust, edit, etui, ides, peds, pest, pets, pied, pies, pits.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-p-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: deputies, disputed, disputer, disputes, dumpiest, pudgiest, stipuled, stupider.

 

+2 letters: aptitudes, autopsied, cuspidate, deputizes, dipterous, disputers, disrepute, disrupted, disrupter, eupatrids, guidepost, multipeds, preaudits, puddliest, stupefied, stupidest, supinated, upshifted, upstirred.

 

+3 letters: amplitudes, audiotapes, cupidities, despiteful, despiteous, dispiteous, disputable, disreputes, disrupters, disruptive, duplicates, guideposts, multispeed, pantsuited, pedicurist, platitudes, plenitudes, punditries, repudiates, stipulated, stupidness, surprinted, turpitudes, undisputed, unscripted.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Dispute


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 73 70 75 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ...    .--.    ..-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01110101 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#112 &#117 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0070 0075 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38758582878671

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Spoken
12. Quotations: Speeches
13. Usage Frequency
14. Names: Derived from
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Translations: Ancient
19. Bible Trace
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Orthography
24. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.