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debate English

Meaning debate meaning

What does debate mean?
Definitions in simple English

debate Noun

— A debate is an exchange of ideas looking at different sides of an issue. We will explore this idea through an analysis of the public debate on marriage and divorce. The government's spending programme is the subject of much heated debate.

debate Verb

— If you debate something, you consider its positive and negative points, often by talking with other people in a formal situation such as government. The AHA had in fact been debating the issue of the future of the hospital for some years. Few subjects are more hotly debated in curriculum committees.

debate

— noun (= argument) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal the argument over foreign aid goes on and on — noun the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) — verb argue with one another We debated the question of abortion John debated Mary — verb discuss the pros and cons of an issue — verb (= consider) think about carefully; weigh They considered the possibility of a strike Turn the proposal over in your mind — verb (= argue) have an argument about something

Synonyms debate synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as debate?

debate English » English

discussion argue dispute discuss argument controversy quarrel disputation deliberate conversation talk moot contend polemics contention wrangle talk about fence converse controvert contest consider conference turn over squabble reason public debate plead deliberation argumentation vex strife polemic plea discourse contestation consult confer cogitate arguing altercate agitate wrangling discussion tiff think over think about something think talk together talk back stir up

Topics debate topics

What do people use debate to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say

Debate
Language and thought Think Opinion

Doubt
Language and thought Communication Say Debate

Quarrel
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Uncertain

Conjugation debate conjugation

How do you conjugate debate?

debate · verb

Examples debate examples

How do I use debate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I participated in the debate.
The war on Iraq is a volatile subject of political debate; any wrong word and a heated argument could spark.
Your decision is open to some debate.
The debate over which consultant to use went on for hours.
It will only mean an endless debate.
The debate continues into the 1980s and 1990s.
Let's debate with each other about the matter.
Did you listen to the Parliamentary debate?
We had a very vigorous debate.
We will debate this subject at the meeting.
He participated in the debate.
They will debate the question tomorrow.
I'd better stay out of that debate as I don't want any trouble.
We don't have time to debate.
We'll debate this subject at the meeting.
Debate is an academic game between the affirmative and the negative.
After much debate, Congress passed the bill.
His proposal started a debate that lasted a year.
They had a debate on same-sex marriage.
The entire public and political debate is based on conjecture, not on fact.
We didn't expect the passage of the bill with so little debate.
I don't really want to debate this.
This debate is silly.
When will the debate take place?

Movie subtitles

The man has a sluggish brain, always wants to debate things.
It goes to the House of Representatives for debate and a vote.
Won the debate against the East Richmond High School single-handed.
I'm in no mood to debate the question.
I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.
What, no debate this time, captain?
No debate, sir. No questions.
If we're gonna debate every item, we'll be here till the next quarter.
I don't care to debate the question with you.
A very stormy debate.
My sons.. thefoolis theman who makes a quarrel of a debate.
Then they told me to shut up because I didn't understand the debate, so I left.
This debate in the House, where's it got us?
Or perhaps we could debate certain aspects of journalism.
A big debate took place in the early 1920s.
Forgive me, General, but I refuse to continue to debate with someone who compares our troops to Cossacks!
Yes, but the verdict isn't in, so the debate is still open.
Finally they think it's quite a bill. It goes to the House of Representatives for debate and a vote. But it has to wait its turn on the calendar.
Won the debate against theEast Richmond HighSchool. She ' s got brains.
Listen, handsome. I'm in no mood to debate the question.
No debate, sir.
This debate is Cornelian. What crossroads!
So it's like a debate between two Jesuit schoolboys about what does and doesn't violate the priest's oath.
That evening, there was much debate about Uli's feat of courage.
The debate is now opened.
No debate.
Won the debate against theEast Richmond HighSchool.
Before continuing with this interesting debate on art, I must inform you that there are no new developments in the health sector.
Gentlemen, I think we've now reached the heart of the real debate about a problem that has preoccupied the government for months. and the prime minister especially, for years. the idea of a united European community.
Further debate on the matter is clearly a waste of time.
The less we debate this thing the better.
And the debate went on, but all that time, the Cybermen made plans. Infiltrated this version of Torchwood. Mapped themselves onto your world and then vanished.
On Monday, January 28, the United Nations will open debate on the Algerian question.
People of Algeria, colonial powers, failing to block UN debate on the Algerian question, will attempt to demonstrate that the FLN represents only a minority.
We shall not debate, mortal.

News and current affairs

At a time when public debate in Israel is torn between pseudo-religious nationalist fanatics and anti-Zionists masquerading as post-modernists, the moral certitudes of Eban, for all their urbanity, may sound shallow.
Instead, I believe that the most important way to reawaken voters' interest in European elections will be to open up the election of the Commission's President to them, and create a genuinely Europe-wide political debate during the next election campaign.
WASHINGTON, DC - As the 2015 target date for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, the United Nations is intensifying its efforts to foster debate about what comes next for promotion of development worldwide.
Debate over Iraq dominated international diplomacy, and took up almost the entire UN agenda.
As the European Constitutional Convention assembles to debate the fine points of the European Union's future institutions, now is the moment to think the unthinkable about where Europe is heading.
The agreement on climate change reached at Heiligendamm by the G8 leaders merely sets the stage for the real debate to come: how will we divide up the diminishing capacity of the atmosphere to absorb our greenhouse gases?
So the fierce debate over whether to increase the size of American ground forces in Iraq is beside the point.
For Poland and the other countries of East-Central Europe that have or are about to join NATO, membership in the Alliance didn't really require debate.
PRAGUE - Weather conditions around the world this summer have provided ample fodder for the global warming debate.
When it occasionally does, even for a short interval - as UN Resolution 1701 for cessation of hostilities in Lebanon seems to be holding - it is time to take stock of events in the hopes that a responsible debate may influence those in power.
A recurrent characteristic of Europe's debt-crisis debate is a Latin American precedent.
This debate about how to deal with Saddam might go as follows.
But the debate may also go the other way.
In places like rural El Paso County, on the eastern plains of Colorado, far from the federal budget debate's epicenter, spending cuts are the order of the day.
But their main effect may be an erosion of reasoned debate and civil conduct, without which democracy is powerless against the forces of polarization and extremism.
New York - This week the United Nations Human Rights Council will debate the report of the fact-finding mission led by Judge Richard Goldstone on human rights violations in the Gaza conflict.
Experts can debate whether this was in conformity with UN rules and procedures.
The crucial next step is to ensure that economic arguments become a stronger part of our political debate about how to address global warming.
Defending the Security Council's current make-up is impossible; the need for change is beyond debate.
The extended and politicized debate about debt restructuring has made a Hamiltonian solution more difficult, because the credit of the countries that would be party to it has become questionable.
But it does facilitate a full and rigorous public debate over key questions of a state's foreign and domestic policies.
A mistake in a presidential debate can turn the tide of public opinion overnight, as happened to President Gerald Ford in his debate with Jimmy Carter in 1976.

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