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Look up: Battle

  1. Battle
    This is done when two writers or two crews have some sort of disagreement. The battle can take two forms: skills battle or getting up - essentially quality vs. quantity. A skills battle is when two writers piece a wall within a certain time period (usually a day or a few hours) and whoever does the best piece is the winner. A getting-up battle is when the writers take a certain area of a city and whichever crew can get up the most in that area within a certain amount of time (say a week to a mon…
    Found on http://www.graffiti.org/faq/graffiti.glo

  2. Battle
    Battle is a town in East Sussex, England. It was the scene of the battle of Hastings in 1066. Battle is a township in Beltrami County Minnesota, USA.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/G3

  3. battle
    [n] - a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war 2. [v] - battle or contend against in or as if in a battle
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. battle
    any of several formations characterized by open spacing and flexible interpretation Category: Defense • Switch for short-circuiting safety interlocks and lighting and red warning light. (USAF manual AFM 100-39) Category: Management in the public and private sector • , such as those made by tanks, helicopters, jets, and artillery, are so deafening that more than half of the …
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  5. Battle
    Bat"tle adjective Fertile. See Battel , adjective [ Obsolete]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/23

  6. Battle
    Bat"tle noun [ Middle English bataille , bataile , French bataille battle, Old French , battle, battalion, from Latin battalia , battualia , the fighting and fencing exercises of soldiers and gladiators, from batuere to strike, beat. Confer Battalia , 1st Battel , and see Batter , transitive verb ] 1. …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/23

  7. Battle
    Bat"tle (băt"t'l) intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Battled (-tl'd); present participle & verbal noun Battling .] [ French batailler , from bataille . See Battle , noun ] To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories. « To meet in arms …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/23

  8. Battle
    Bat"tle transitive verb To assail in battle; to fight.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/23

  9. battle
    1. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat. ... 2. A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life. "The whole intellectual battle that had at its center the best poem of the best poet of that day." (H. Morley) ... 3. A division of an army; a battalion. "The king divide …
    Found on http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?b

  10. battle
    noun a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; `Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga`; `he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. battle
    combat verb battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; `The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq`; `We must combat the prejudices against other races`; `they battled over the budget`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. Battle
    ``Battles` redirects here. For the band, see Battles (band).` Generally, a `battle` is a specific instance of combat in warfare between two or more parties wherein each group will seek to defeat the others. Battles are most often fought during wars or military campaigns and can usually be well defined in time, space and action. Wars and military campaigns are guided by strategy whereas battles are the stage on which tactics are employed. German ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle

  13. Battle
    ``Battles` redirects here. For the band, see Battles (band).` Generally, a `battle` is a specific instance of combat in warfare between two or more parties wherein each group will seek to defeat the others. Battles are most often fought during wars or military campaigns and can usually be well defined in time, space and action. Wars and military campaigns are guided by strategy whereas battles are the stage on which tactics are employed. German ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle

  14. Battle
    • (v. t.) A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life. • (v. t.) A division of an army; a battalion. • (a.) Fertile. See Battel, a. • (v. t.) The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia. • (v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engageme...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  15. Battle
    town (parish), Rother district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England, just inland from Hastings. A ridge to the ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/32

  16. Battle
    William H., English surgeon, 1855–1936. See: Battle sign
    Found on http://www.stedmans.com/section.cfm/45

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10 January 2009

This day in history:
In 1863 the London Underground was first opened, using steam trains running over four miles (six km) of track between Paddington and Farringdon Street. Nowadays there are eleven lines covering 254 miles (408 Km), with 270 stations. It was Charles Pearson who first proposed the notion of ‘trains in drains’ in 1845, when the railway was a relatively new invention. He helped raise the finance from private investors and the City of London, and excavation began in 1860, with a shallow trench dug beneath Euston Road and then covered over. read more

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