What's the difference between combo and fight?

Combo


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To test this premise, 14 healthy, untrained men trained four days per week for 20 weeks on a bicycle ergometer for endurance (END Group, n = 4), on an isokinetic device for increased torque production (ITP Group, n = 5), or on both devices (COMBO Group, n = 5).
  • (2) Jane's favourite combos are: rhubarb and strawberry, rhubarb and raspberry, and plum and blackberry.
  • (3) I can’t remember which ill-fated combo decided to do a synth-pop cover of Hoagy Carmichael’s I Get Along Without You Very Well, but I can remember Smash Hits’ one-word response: “Ditto.” In their review of David Bowie’s 1983 album Let’s Dance, there was no sense that the journalist was trying to be reasonable, or to justify his views intellectually.
  • (4) "The weather dictates," says Jeremy Langmead, editor-in-chief of Mr Porter , but ideally he'll wear "a relaxed combo of brightly coloured trousers – Jil Sander green, Band of Outsiders yellow – with grey T-shirts and unstructured blue blazers".
  • (5) For gram-negative bacilli, identifications were compared with the ones obtained by MicroScan Combo Panel (American MicroScan, Mahwah, NJ), and all discrepancies were resolved by testing with API 20E (Analytab Products, Plainview, NY).
  • (6) 5.33am BST Round Three A Manny combo - then bradley puts his head in his opponents stomach, pausing the action.
  • (7) Photograph: Paula Dear 3 La Serrana Hostel , Salento, Quindío To the south of the huge Nevado del Ruiz volcano is this hostel-camping combo with great relaxation areas, overlooking green pastures.
  • (8) I used to see Clinton from Pop Will Eat Itself and Blitz [top Oi combo] on scooter runs; we used to get attacked by bikers in Stourbridge (the Poppies' home town), till we followed Clinton down an alternative safe route."
  • (9) Does their existence in this universe hint at a debut for super-villain combo the Sinister Six in future instalments?
  • (10) Besides evoking nostalgia for anyone who recalls Sega's classic Golden Axe , the combat adds a host of moves and combos that require skill and attention – hammering the attack buttons won't get you far.
  • (11) The shirts-and-jeans combos might not be for everyone, but there's no denying the quiet confidence, the soft but authoritative Scouse accent, the silver mane gelled to stiff peaks ...
  • (12) When these three HIV protease inhibitors and AZT or 2',3'-dideoxyinosine were used in combinations against a primary HIV isolate in phytohemagglutinin-activated peripheral blood mononuclear cells and the results were analyzed with the COMBO program package, their antiviral activities were identified to be synergistic in some cases and additive in others.
  • (13) And in a unique combo, the Guardian asked columnist Tim Dowling and body language expert Peter Collett to offer their reflections on the photo showing the new cabinet at their first meeting.
  • (14) Then a right hook, a jab, a combo, Bradley is on the ropes, Pacquiao is in control, dictating the terms of this fight.
  • (15) Joined previously successful combo and is still around, misunderstood, but seemingly indestructible.
  • (16) 5.03pm BST 1 min: The pitch is threadbare but also unnaturally green - a jarring combo.
  • (17) A The title of the music is 'Sequence 3' by Italian brotherly beat combo GF and GP Reverbi.
  • (18) The highest achiever of Leonia High's Class of 1972 , "Tom" Ilves gave young classmates rides in his family's Plymouth station wagon and introduced me to a peppy little combo from Los Angeles that had just released their first album.
  • (19) If you can’t make sense of the website, you can nip into the somewhat overshadowed big pink Iglesia del Divino Salvador in nearby Plaza del Salvador and buy the combo visita conjunta ticket for iglesia plus Cathedral plus Giralda.
  • (20) With this perfect combo, she is reminiscent of Natalie Portman - of whom Page declares herself "profoundly jealous ... in a good way.

Fight


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against.
  • (v. i.) To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.
  • (v. t.) To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause.
  • (v. t.) To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.
  • (v. t.) To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship.
  • (v. i.) A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.
  • (v. i.) A struggle or contest of any kind.
  • (v. i.) Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him.
  • (v. i.) A screen for the combatants in ships.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
  • (2) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
  • (3) At the ceremony, the Taliban welcomed dialogue with Washington but said their fighters would not stop fighting.
  • (4) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
  • (5) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
  • (6) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
  • (7) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
  • (8) How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds Read more Shares in Imperial closed down 1% and British American Tobacco lost 0.75%, both underperforming the FTSE100’s 0.3% decline.
  • (9) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
  • (10) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
  • (11) Like many families, we’ve had to move to escape the fighting.
  • (12) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
  • (13) When the election comes, we won’t be campaigning for a coalition... ...we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government – because that is what our country needs.
  • (14) We have much more fighting to do!” Now Cherwell is preparing to publish letters or articles from other students who have been inspired to open up about their own ordeals.
  • (15) We need to put our heads together, and get our act together to fight corruption.
  • (16) It’s useless if we try and fight with them through force, so we try and fight with them through humour.” “There is a saying that laughing is the best form of medicine.
  • (17) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
  • (18) That’s why I thought: ‘I hope Tyson wins – even if he never gives me a shot.’ As long as the heavyweight titles are out of Germany we could have some interesting fights.
  • (19) Everyone expressed commitment to fight climate change.
  • (20) His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles.

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