N. contiguity, contact,
proximity,
apposition, # abuttal,
juxtaposition,
abutment,
osculation, meeting,
appulse,
rencontre,
rencounter,
syzygy,
coincidence,
coexistence,
adhesion, touching, (see touch 379), borderland, frontier, tangent,
abutter V. be contiguous, join,
adjoin, abut on, march with,
graze, touch, meet,
osculate, come in contact, coincide,
coexist,
adhere,
juxtapose, contact, join (unite) 43, link (vinculum) 45
Adj. contiguous, touching, in contact,
conterminous, end to end,
osculatory, pertingent|,
tangential, hand to hand, close to, with no interval, 2, linear dimensions
N. arrival,
advent, landing, # debarkation,
disembarkation, reception,
welcome, vin d'honneur, home,
goal, goalpost, landing place, landing stage,
bunder, resting place,
destination,
harbor,
haven, port, airport, spaceport,
terminus, halting place, halting ground, landing strip,
runway, terminal, journey's end,
anchorage, return,
remigration, meeting,
rencounter,
encounter, completion,
recursion V. arrive, get to, come to, come, reach, attain, come up with, come up to, overtake, make,
fetch, complete, join, rejoin, light,
alight, dismount, land, go ashore,
debark,
disembark, put in, put into, visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent, sit down, get to one's journey's end, make the land, be in at the death, come back, get back, come home, get home, return, come in, make one's appearance, drop in,
detrain, deplane, outspan, de-orbit, come to hand, come at, come across,
hit, come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon, meet,
encounter,
rencounter, come in contact
Adj. arriving, homeward bound
Phr. any port in a storm
N. contention,
strife, contest,
contestation, struggle,
belligerency, opposition, controversy,
polemics,
debate, war of words,
logomachy,
litigation, paper war, high words,
sparring, competition,
rivalry,
corrivalry,
corrivalship, agonism|, concours,
match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase,
handicap,
regatta, field day, sham fight, derby day,
turf,
sporting,
bullfight,
tauromachy, gymkhana, boat race, torpids,
wrestling, greco-roman wrestling,
pugilism, boxing,
fisticuffs, the manly art of self-defense,
spar, mill,
set-to, round,
bout, event, prize fighting,
quarterstaff, single stick,
gladiatorship,
gymnastics, jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti, sumo,
athletics,
athletic sports, games of skill,
shindy,
fracas, clash of arms,
tussle,
scuffle,
broil,
fray,
affray, affrayment|, velitation|, colluctation|,
luctation,
brabble, brigue|,
scramble,
melee,
scrimmage,
stramash,
bushfighting, free fight, stand up fight, hand to hand, running fight, conflict,
skirmish,
rencounter,
encounter,
rencontre,
collision,
affair,
brush, fight, battle, battle royal,
combat, action, engagement,
joust,
tournament,
tilt,
tilting, tournay, list, pitched battle, death struggle, struggle for life or death, life or death struggle,
armageddon, hard knocks, sharp contest, tug of war, naval engagement,
naumachia,
sea fight,
duel,
duello, single combat,
monomachy, satisfaction, passage d'armes, passage of arms, affair of honor, triangular duel, hostile meeting,
digladiation, deeds of arms, feats of arms, appeal to arms,
pugnacity,
combativeness, bone of contention
V. contend, contest,
strive, struggle,
scramble,
wrestle,
spar, square, exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs, fib|,
justle,
tussle,
tilt, box,
stave,
fence,
skirmish,
pickeer, fight,
wrangle, contend &c. with, grapple with, engage with, close with, buckle with, bandy with, try conclusions with, have a brush, with, tilt with,
encounter, fall foul of, pitch into,
clapperclaw, run a tilt at,
oppose,
reluct, join issue, come to blows, go to loggerheads, set to, come to the scratch, exchange shots, measure swords, meet hand to hand, take up the cudgels, take up the glove, take up the gauntlet, enter the lists, couch one's lance, give satisfaction, appeal to arms, lay about one, break the peace, compete with, cope with, vie with, race with,
outvie,
emulate, rival, run a race, contend &c. for, stipulate for, stickle for, insist upon, make a point of
Adj. contending, together by the ears, at loggerheads at war at issue,
competitive, rival,
belligerent,
contentious,
combative,
bellicose, unpeaceful, warlike,
quarrelsome,
pugnacious,
pugilistic,
gladiatorial,
palestric,
palestrical Phr. a verbis ad verbera, a word and a blow, "a very pretty quarrel as it stands", commune periculum concordiam parit, lis litem generat
