What's the difference between challenge and invite?

Challenge


Definition:

  • (n.) An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
  • (n.) The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
  • (n.) A claim or demand.
  • (n.) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
  • (n.) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.
  • (n.) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
  • (n.) To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.
  • (n.) To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.
  • (n.) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
  • (n.) To censure; to blame.
  • (n.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"
  • (n.) To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
  • (n.) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.
  • (n.) To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.
  • (v. i.) To assert a right; to claim a place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bronchial challenge caused an immediate asthmatic response.
  • (2) When chimeric animals were subjected to a lethal challenge of endotoxin, their response was markedly altered by the transferred lymphoid cells.
  • (3) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
  • (4) The degree of increase in Meth responsiveness elicited by the initial provocation is a major factor in determining the airway response to a subsequent HS challenge.
  • (5) Intranasal challenge of allergic subjects with the allergen to which they are sensitive rapidly produces sneezing, rhinorrhea, and airway obstruction.
  • (6) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
  • (7) In 1935, Einstein challenged the prevailing interpretation of quantum theory.
  • (8) A shrinking populace is perhaps a greater challenge than any problems with Russia.
  • (9) Intraperitoneal injection of indomethacin to pretreated animals resulted in increased levels of IL-1 and TNF and decreased levels of PGE2 following challenge with E. coli.
  • (10) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
  • (11) The children's pulse, pulse rate variability, and blood pressure were then measured at rest and during a challenging situation.
  • (12) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
  • (13) The results support the notion that mediator lymphocytes circulate in tumor immunized rats in a noncytotoxic state, specifically recognize tumor cells at a challenge site, and mediate induction of effector cells locally.
  • (14) The role of blood acetylcholinesterase in moderating the effects of organophosphate challenge in rats was tested.
  • (15) In the first trial to investigate the effect of tick control, significant improvements in liveweight gain (LWG) occurred only in periods of medium to high challenge with adult Amblyomma variegatum.
  • (16) The SNT and the I-ELISA indicated that the pigs responded to vaccination and challenge.
  • (17) When caffeine evokes a contraction, and only then, crayfish muscle fibers become refractory to a second challenge with caffeine for up to 20 min in the standard saline (5 mM K(o)).
  • (18) This observation seriously challenges the hypothesis that SCE cancellation results as a consequence of persistence of the lesions induced by these agents.
  • (19) Injection of about four ImD 50 of vaccine intracerebrally produced a local immunity, resulting in an immediate kill of challenge organisms given 14 days later.
  • (20) There was no correlation between anti-TNP-precipitating antibody titer after sensitization and the ability to respond to challenge by hapten-heterologous carrier.

Invite


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company of; as, to invite to dinner, or a wedding, or an excursion.
  • (v. t.) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
  • (v. t.) To give occasion for; as, to invite criticism.
  • (v. i.) To give invitation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (2) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
  • (3) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
  • (4) All children enrolled in grade 2 were invited to join the study.
  • (5) The wives and girlfriends who were originally invited to accompany their playing partners on the World Cup tour have had their invitations formally rescinded.
  • (6) They plan to continue the hour-long demonstrations daily, potentially inviting arrest under laws introduced last year that allowed some protests to be criminalised.
  • (7) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
  • (8) Questionnaires were sent to 305 patients who during a three and a half year period had been invited to participate.
  • (9) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
  • (10) And when they do that in high dudgeon, they invite iconoclasm – something fashion has proved adept at for just as long.
  • (11) "It is also very surprising that the government is advising families with disabled children, and children suffering trauma following serious abuse, to invite a stranger into their home."
  • (12) They also made it clear that they would seek to use the award to bring their two countries closer together and said they would invite their prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan and Narendra Modi of India, to the award ceremony in Oslo in December.
  • (13) They begin when authorities invite us to exclude neighbors from the community by associating them with a global threat.
  • (14) They invite the viewer to get off on the same things the killer is getting off on.
  • (15) We all do different things.” She was front and centre at Ashley’s side in footage shot last week by Sky News cameramen, who were also part of the “selected media” entourage invited to Shirebrook to launch the group’s charm offensive.
  • (16) In the Commons on Monday , John Whittingdale, the culture secretary who only in February chaired the committee that concluded “No future licence fee negotiations must be conducted in the way of the 2010 settlement”, ducked the invitation to explain how exactly the same thing had just happened again.
  • (17) Collier usually attends in his place, but Guardian Australia has been told he was not invited to next month’s meeting, in the hope that omitting him might encourage Barnett to board a plane.
  • (18) Angela Merkel says she's very pleased to accept the invitation to Davos, at a time when global economic growth is modest.
  • (19) The fiery energy she radiated on stage and her motormouth, ragga-influenced raps brought her to the attention of So Solid Crew, who invited her to collaborate.
  • (20) Tales invites you to be straight or gay or a bit of both, or even a 93-year-old transsexual.