'Challenge' definitions:

Definition of 'challenge'

(from WordNet)
noun
A demanding or stimulating situation; "they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power"
noun
A call to engage in a contest or fight
noun
Questioning a statement and demanding an explanation; "his challenge of the assumption that Japan is still our enemy"
noun
A formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror
noun
A demand by a sentry for a password or identification
verb
Take exception to; "She challenged his claims" [syn: challenge, dispute, gainsay]
verb
Issue a challenge to; "Fischer challenged Spassky to a match"
verb
Ask for identification; "The illegal immigrant was challenged by the border guard"
verb
Raise a formal objection in a court of law [syn: challenge, take exception]

Definition of 'Challenge'

From: GCIDE
  • Challenge \Chal"lenge\, n. [OE. chalenge claim, accusation, challenge, OF. chalenge, chalonge, claim, accusation, contest, fr. L. calumnia false accusation, chicanery. See Calumny.]
  • 1. An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. [1913 Webster]
  • A challenge to controversy. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A claim or demand. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • There must be no challenge of superiority. --Collier. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Law) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause. --Blackstone [1913 Webster]
  • 6. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
  • Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel.
  • Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it.
  • Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned.
  • Peremptory challenge, a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning any cause.
  • Principal challenge, that which the law allows to be sufficient if found to be true. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Challenge'

From: GCIDE
  • Challenge \Chal"lenge\, v. i. To assert a right; to claim a place. [1913 Webster]
  • Where nature doth with merit challenge. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Challenge'

From: GCIDE
  • Challenge \Chal"lenge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Challenged; p. pr. & vb. n. Challenging.] [OE. chalengen to accuse, claim, OF. chalengier, chalongier, to claim, accuse, dispute, fr. L. calumniar to attack with false accusations. See Challenge, n., and cf. Calumniate.]
  • 1. To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy. [1913 Webster]
  • I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by right of fatherhood. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat. [1913 Webster]
  • By this I challenge him to single fight. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To claim as due; to demand as a right. [1913 Webster]
  • Challenge better terms. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To censure; to blame. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • He complained of the emperors . . . and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from them. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Mil.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?" [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Law) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
  • To challenge to the array, favor, polls. See under Challenge, n. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'challenge'

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Challenge-Brownsville, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Challenge-Brownsville, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000) :
1069
Housing Units (2000) :
580
Land area (2000) :
9.664709 sq. miles (25.031480 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
9.664709 sq. miles (25.031480 sq. km)
FIPS code :
12612
Located within :
California (CA), FIPS 06
Location :
39.472574 N, 121.265028 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

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