| contest | | |
| n. (event) | 1. competition, contest | an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants. |
| ~ game | a single play of a sport or other contest.; "the game lasted two hours" |
| ~ social event | an event characteristic of persons forming groups. |
| ~ athletic competition, athletic contest, athletics | a contest between athletes. |
| ~ bout | a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers). |
| ~ championship | a competition at which a champion is chosen. |
| ~ chicken | a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops. |
| ~ cliffhanger | a contest whose outcome is uncertain up to the very end. |
| ~ dogfight | a fiercely disputed contest.; "their rancor dated from a political dogfight between them"; "a real dogfight for third place"; "a prolonged dogfight over their rival bids for the contract" |
| ~ race | a contest of speed.; "the race is to the swift" |
| ~ tournament, tourney | a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner. |
| ~ playoff | any final competition to determine a championship. |
| ~ series | (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams.; "the visiting team swept the series" |
| ~ field trial | a contest between gun dogs to determine their proficiency in pointing and retrieving. |
| ~ match | a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete. |
| ~ tournament | a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize. |
| ~ race | any competition.; "the race for the presidency" |
| ~ spelldown, spelling bee, spelling contest | a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly. |
| ~ trial | (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications.; "the trials for the semifinals began yesterday" |
| n. (act) | 2. contest | a struggle between rivals. |
| ~ rivalry, competition, contention | the act of competing as for profit or a prize.; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place" |
| ~ battle of wits | a contest in which intelligence rather than violence is used. |
| ~ bidding contest | a series of competing bids. |
| ~ popularity contest | competition (real or figurative) for popular support. |
| v. (communication) | 3. contend, contest, repugn | to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation.; "They contested the outcome of the race" |
| ~ oppose | be against; express opposition to.; "We oppose the ban on abortion" |
| ~ challenge, dispute, gainsay | take exception to.; "She challenged his claims" |
| tall | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. tall | a garment size for a tall person. |
| ~ size | the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing).; "he wears a size 13 shoe" |
| adj. | 2. tall | great in vertical dimension; high in stature.; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships" |
| ~ high | (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high').; "a high mountain"; "high ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high incline"; "a foot high" |
| ~ big, large | above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world" |
| ~ gangling, gangly, lanky, rangy | tall and thin and having long slender limbs.; "a gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man" |
| ~ in height | having a specified height.; "five feet tall"; "five feet in height" |
| ~ long-legged, long-shanked, leggy | having long legs. |
| ~ leggy, tall-growing | (of plants) having tall spindly stems. |
| ~ long | of relatively great height.; "a race of long gaunt men"; "looked out the long French windows" |
| ~ long-stalked, tall-stalked | of plants having relatively long stalks. |
| ~ statuesque, stately | of size and dignity suggestive of a statue. |
| ~ tallish | somewhat tall. |
| adj. | 3. grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall | lofty in style.; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying" |
| ~ rhetorical | given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought.; "mere rhetorical frippery" |
| adj. | 4. tall | impressively difficult.; "a tall order" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
| adj. | 5. improbable, marvellous, marvelous, tall | too improbable to admit of belief.; "a tall story" |
| ~ incredible, unbelievable | beyond belief or understanding.; "at incredible speed"; "the book's plot is simply incredible" |
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