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| Pronunciation:  |   | 'dooul
 
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 WordNet Dictionary |  
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- [n]  any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups)  
 
- [n]  a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor  
 
- [v]  fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman; "In the 19th century, men often dueled over small matters"  
 
 
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|   | Synonyms: |   | affaire d'honneur |  
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|   | See Also: |   | battle, combat, fight, fight, fighting, struggle, struggle |       |  
 Products Dictionary |  
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|   | Definition: |   | Duel A traveling businessman (Dennis Weaver) is suddenly menaced on the highway by a huge diesel truck. Although he can never see the psychopathic driver of the truck, he soon realizes that this guy is out to kill him! "Duel" is a classic of the action-suspense genre which helped launch the career of director Steven Spielberg. more details ...  |  
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 Webster's 1913 Dictionary |  
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\Du"el\, n. [It. duello, fr. L. duellum, orig., a contest
between two, which passed into the common form bellum war,
fr. duo two: cf. F. duel. See {Bellicose}, {Two}, and cf.
{Duello}.]
A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by
agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an
affront given by one to the other.
{Trial by duel} (Old Law), a combat between two persons for
   proving a cause; trial by battel.
 
\Du"el\, v. i. & t.
To fight in single combat. [Obs.]
  
 
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 Computing Dictionary |  
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|   | Definition: |   | A front end to gdb by Michael Golan <[email protected]>. DUEL implements a language designed for debugging C programs.  It mainly features efficient ways to select and display data items.  It is normally linked into the gdb executable, but could stand alone.  It interprets a subset of C in addition to its own language. Version 1.10.  |  
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 Dream Dictionary |  
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|   | Definition: |   | Dreaming that you are in a duel means inner conflicts in which you need to find a middle ground between the two extremes. You need to stop seeing things in black and white. |  
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|   | Related Terms: |   | affair of honor, battle, box, brawl, broil, buck, clash, close, collide, combat, come to blows, contend, contest, cut and thrust, dispute, exchange blows, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, jostle, joust, mix it up, monomachy, oppose, quarrel, rassle, repel, riot, run a tilt, satisfaction, scramble, scuffle, single combat, skirmish, spar, strive, struggle, thrust and parry, tilt, tourney, traverse, tussle, wage war, war, withstand, wrestle |  
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