(v. i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
(v. t.) To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.
(n.) A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.
(n.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(2) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(3) Infusion of sodium lactate associated with isoproterenol could be used to combat the depressent effects of betablockers in patients with cardiac disorders.
(4) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
(5) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
(6) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(7) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
(8) We reviewed the pre-Vietnam contents of the service medical and personnel records of 250 Vietnam combat veterans, in an attempt to identify factors predisposing to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
(9) If we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific [Isis] targets, I will recommend that to the president,” Dempsey said, preferring the term “close combat advising”.
(10) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
(11) Germany’s parliament has thrown its weight behind the European campaign against Islamic State , voting with a solid majority in favour of deploying military personnel to Syria in a non-combat role.
(12) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
(13) In government, Abbott had relished the daily combat but his officials complained he wasn’t enamoured by detailed policy work.
(14) The home fans were lifted by the sight of Billy Bonds, a legend in these parts, being presented with a lifetime achievement award before the kick-off and the former West Ham captain and manager probably would have enjoyed playing in Allardyce's combative midfield.
(15) Rarely has there been a potential presidential candidate so battle-hardened and ready for combat.
(16) Computer says no: Amazon uses AI to combat fake reviews Read more “Imagine as the CEO of a major company you go off and spend £100m on gathering data,” Hammond says.
(17) Al-Shamiri has been held as an enemy combatant without charge at Guantánamo since 2002.
(18) The government's decision to allow a cull of badgers, reportedly to combat bovine tuberculosis, "flies in the face of the scientific evidence" and will serve only to spread the disease, Labour claims.
(19) In addition, multiple regression analysis was used to examine predictive relationships between premilitary adjustment, military adjustment, combat exposure, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
(20) The prime minister could publish the reply upon his return from the opening of climate change talks in Paris on Tuesday next week, depending on the progress made in discussions between Russia and the west on the best approach to combating Isis.
Wombat
Definition:
(n.) Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (P. ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.
Example Sentences:
(1) n. was recovered from the feces of wild and captive common wombats (Vombatus ursinus).
(2) Clinical signs, necropsy findings and histopathological changes are summarized for 43 macropods, two common wombats, two koalas, six possums, 15 dasyurids, two numbats, eight bandicoots and one bilby.
(3) He is the author of seven books, including the Dog Fence, Wollemi Pine, The Secret Life of Wombats and The Great Barrier Reef.
(4) London isn’t the best city for hostels ( that accolade goes to Lisbon ) but that’s improving too with Clink , Generator , Wombats and the good ol’ YHA all offering family rooms.
(5) Immunoreactive cells were also seen in Brunner's glands: 5 types in the parma wallaby; 3 types in the great grey kangaroo and tiger cat; 2 types in the koala and common wombat; 1 type in the short-nosed bandicoot.
(6) He was, he admits, “a silly so–and-so” and “a bit of a wombat” not to realise that the “eight out of 10” half of the quote would not be widely reported.
(7) Two of 3 wombats (Vombatus ursinus) inoculated with balcanica had high MA titres (greater than or equal to 1:128) by day 16 PI and leptospiruria occurred by day 16.
(8) The low ammonia content of digesta fluid suggested that ammonia released from these amino acids was absorbed and utilized by the wombats and their gut microbes.
(9) Of 20 wombats Vombatus ursinus) examined in Victoria, antibodies to hardjo were found in sera from 4 and titres to Pyrogenes and Pomona serogroups were detected in another.
(10) Histopathological examination of kidneys revealed mild to moderately severe focal interstitial nephritis in 4 of 8 possums, in 2 wombats and in 2 water rats following experimental infection with balcanica.
(11) Proliferative lesions were present in 14 macropods, 26 koalas, two wombats and 22 possums and gliders.
(12) Periodontal tissues of wombat, wallaby, possum, and marsupial mouse were examined to ascertain oxytalan fibre organization.
(13) We describe disease in two captive juvenile wombats ascribed to infection with E. arundeli.
(14) The morphology of the digestive tract and the sequence of digestion were studied in two species of wombats from contrasting habitats: Vombatus ursinus from mesic habitats and Lasiorhinus latifrons from xeric regions.
(15) Studies were performed on wild wombats consuming their natural winter diets, and on captive wombats fed a high-fibre pelleted straw diet.
(16) The rhinoceros-sized wombat, the ten-foot kangaroo, the marsupial lion, the monitor lizard larger than a Nile crocodile, the giant marsupial tapir, the horned tortoise as big as a car – all went, in ecological terms, overnight.
(17) The Wombat Trail – as the National party’s election campaign is known – has just cracked the big time.
(18) The proximal duodenum of eight marsupial species, (koala, common brushtail possum, ring-tailed possum, common wombat, great grey kangaroo, parma wallaby, short-nosed bandicoot and tiger cat) were investigated immunohistochemically using 12 specific antisera for gut hormones.
(19) The stages in the hairy-nosed wombat are those described as Ileocystis wombati Gilruth and Bull 1912.
(20) This report catalogues all spontaneous proliferations in macropods, koalas, wombats, and possums and gliders held by the Comparative Pathology Registry at Taronga Zoo.