Found 4 items, similar to challenge.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: challenge menantang
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: challenge tantangan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: challenge challenge v 1: take exception to; “She challenged his claims” [syn: dispute, gainsay] 2: issue a challenge to; “Fischer challenged Spassky to a match” 3: ask for identification; “The illegal immigrant was challenged by the border guard” 4: raise a formal objection in a court of law [syn: take exception ] challenge n 1: a demanding or stimulating situation; “they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power” 2: a call to engage in a contest or fight 3: questioning a statement and demanding an explanation; “his challenge of the assumption that Japan is still our enemy” 4: a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror 5: a demand by a sentry for a password or identification
English → English (gcide) Definition: Challenge 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] 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] Challenge \Chal"lenge\, v. i. To assert a right; to claim a place. [1913 Webster] Where nature doth with merit challenge. --Shak. [1913 Webster]