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Verb
/ˈd(y)o͞oəl/,
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duels, plural;
  1. Fight a duel or duels
    • - dueling had been forbidden for serving officers
Noun
  1. A contest with deadly weapons arranged between two people in order to settle a point of honor

  2. (in modern use) A contest or race between two parties
    • - two eminent critics engaged in a verbal duel
  1. a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor
  2. fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman; "In the 19th century, men often dueled over small matters"
  3. any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups)
  4. As practiced from the 11th to 20th centuries in Western societies, a duel is an engagement in combat between two individuals, with matched weapons in accordance with their combat doctrines. In the modern application, the term is applied to aerial warfare between fighter pilots. ...
  5. Duel is a 1971 television movie about a terrified motorist (played by Dennis Weaver) on a remote and lonely road being chased and stalked by a huge tanker truck and its unseen, psychotic driver. ...
  6. Duel is the most expensive movie ever made in Iranian cinema history. It was directed by Ahmad Reza Darvish, who was mostly known for films about the Iran-Iraq war. Duel was shot in roughly 11 months in various cities of Iran. ...
  7. Duel (born 1969) is a Melbourne-born, Australian graffiti artist and break dancer.
  8. Duel (or The Joust in America) is an event played in several incarnations of the television series Gladiators. In this event, a contender and Gladiator engage in battle on raised podiums using pugil sticks. The object is to knock your opponent off.
  9. "Duel" is a song by Morganne Matis and was her first official single.
  10. Duel: The Haunted House Strikes Back! is an attraction at the Alton Towers theme park near the village of Alton in Staffordshire. ...
  11. "Duel" is the second single by German pop group Propaganda and was included on their first album A Secret Wish.
  12. Duel is an American game show that first aired from December 17 to December 23, 2007 on ABC. The show aired as a week-long six-episode tournament at 8:00 PM (7:00 Central) from Monday through Friday with the finale on Sunday.
  13. Duel was an ITV game show based on a format by Francophone production company French TV, hosted by Nick Hancock, broadcast on Saturday evenings. It ran from 19 January 2008 to 5 April 2008.
  14. Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor; Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat); Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas; To engage in a duel
  15. (Dueled) Used when to or more horses are head and head for the lead for an extended period of time.
  16. (Dueling) Dragons is a pair of dueling roller coasters at Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure.
  17. (Dueling) The fighting of two persons, one against the other, at an appointed time and place, due to an earlier quarrel. If death results, the crime is murder. It differs from an affray in this, that the latter occurs on a sudden quarrel, while the former is always the result of design.
  18. (Dueling) The gentlemanly art of inter-personal (1 v 1) battling.
  19. (Duels) A one-on-one confrontation with swords between the current Victor and a challenger. Normally held in the Arena of Duels, the objective is to cut free a rose fastened to the opposing Duelist's chest. The winner of the duel is considered the "One Engaged" to the Rose Bride. ...
  20. a formal or informal combat encounter between two individuals, usually fought with closely matched or similar weapons.
  21. a game where only 2 players compete against each other.
  22. Killing a man in a duel was murder in England but until the 1840's it was a rarely convicted crime. Receiving a challenge to duel was considered an affair of honor and following through with it was mandatory.
  23. James Landale (2005). ISBN 1-84195-647-3. The story of the last fatal duel in Scotland
  24. musical game for two "antagonistic" conductors and two orchestras playing different material, mathematically based on game theory, with the audience determining the winning orchestra (1959)
  25. a contest or competition, usually arial between two skyboarders using their skyboards as the weapon.