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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fight, fighting, combat, scrapadjective

    the act of fighting; any contest or struggle

    "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"

  2. active, combat-ready, fighting(a)adjective

    engaged in or ready for military or naval operations

    "on active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the fighting forces"

Wiktionary

  1. fightingnoun

    A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight

  2. fightingadjective

    engaged in war or other conflict

  3. fightingadjective

    apt to provoke a fight

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Fightingparticipial adj.

    Etymology: from fight.

    An host of fighting men went out to war by bands. 2 Chro.

    In fighting fields, as far the spear I throw
    As flies the arrow from the well-drawn bow. Alexander Pope, Odyss.

Wikipedia

  1. fighting

    Combat (French for fight) is a purposeful violent conflict meant to physically harm or kill the opposition. Combat may be armed (using weapons) or unarmed (not using weapons). Combat is sometimes resorted to as a method of self-defense, or can be used as a tool to impose one's will on others. An instance of combat can be a stand-alone confrontation or a small part of a much larger violent conflict. Instances of combat may also be benign and recreational, as in the cases of combat sports and mock combat. Combat may comply with, or be in violation of local or international laws regarding conflict. Examples of rules include the Geneva Conventions (covering the treatment of people in war), medieval chivalry, the Marquess of Queensberry rules (covering boxing) and several forms of combat sports.

ChatGPT

  1. fighting

    Fighting refers to engaging in physical combat or conflict, typically with the intention of overpowering or defeating an opponent. It involves the use of physical force, such as punches, kicks, or grappling, to assert dominance or defend oneself. Fighting can occur in various contexts, including sports or activities, self-defense scenarios, and armed conflicts.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fighting

    of Fight

  2. Fightingadjective

    qualified for war; fit for battle

  3. Fightingadjective

    occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field

Wikidata

  1. Fighting

    Fighting is the fifth studio album by Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, released in 1975. After spending four albums trying to find their niche, the band finally forged an identifiable sound featuring the twin guitars of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson. This sound draws from hard rock, folk, pop and rhythm and blues. It set the stage for the big commercial breakthrough of the follow-up album, Jailbreak. The track "Suicide" was originally performed by Thin Lizzy when guitarist Eric Bell was still in the band, including on a BBC broadcast recorded in July 1973. It was first performed with different lyrics under the title "Baby's Been Messing". Another track recorded at the Fighting sessions was "Try a Little Harder", which was eventually released on the Vagabonds, Kings, Warriors, Angels boxed set in 2002. Fighting is the only other Thin Lizzy album aside from their 1971 debut where band members other than Phil Lynott receive sole songwriting credits for certain tracks. Bell wrote "Ray Gun" on the debut, and Robertson and Gorham wrote "Silver Dollar" and "Ballad of a Hard Man", respectively. Europe guitarist John Norum covered "Wild One" on his 1987 album Total Control. Europe covered "Suicide" on their 2008 live album Almost Unplugged.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. fighting

    Qualified for war; fit for battle; as, “A host of fighting men.” Also, occupied in war; being the scene of war; as, a fighting field.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'fighting' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2847

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'fighting' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2813

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'fighting' in Nouns Frequency: #1798

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fighting in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fighting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of fighting in a Sentence

  1. Laura Richey:

    That's when my fight started, i was not only fighting for my health but fighting to get some [ financial ] assistance.

  2. Ryan Mauro:

    Current arguments over terrorist recidivism upon release from Gitmo focus vary based on what it means to ‘rejoin’ the terrorist cause, the rate is lower if you only consider those who went back to physical fighting and it is higher if you include those who rejoined terrorist groups. But we often miss another factor: What about those who use their rock star status to radicalize without engaging in violence? We must remember this is an ideological war.

  3. President Catherine Engelbrecht:

    They are still entrenched on the idea that the IRS did nothing wrong and all of America now knows that is not the case, what we’re fighting for is we want to see a policy that prohibits viewpoint discrimination. Holding the IRS accountable and personalizing it is a great step forward to coax each one out of their den of thieves.

  4. Henry Cuellar:

    This land gave my family a chance, that’s why I ’ll never stop fighting for South Texas.

  5. Allen Sawyer:

    Were very confident that if the jury had the correct information, they would have (come) to a different conclusion, ive never had a case that so much evidence has been excluded. We wanted the truth to come out and were going to keep fighting.

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