The difference between Debate and Discuss

When used as verbs, debate means to participate in a debate, whereas discuss means to converse or debate concerning a particular topic.


Debate is also noun with the meaning: an argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.

check bellow for the other definitions of Debate and Discuss

  1. Debate as a noun:

    An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.

    Examples:

    "After a four-hour debate, the committee voted to table the motion."

  2. Debate as a noun:

    An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.

    Examples:

    "The debate over the age of the universe is thousands of years old."

    "There was a bit of a debate over who should pay for the damaged fence."

  3. Debate as a noun (uncountable):

    Discussion of opposing views.

    Examples:

    "There has been considerable debate concerning exactly how to format these articles."

  4. Debate as a noun (frequently in the French form ''débat''):

    A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.

  5. Debate as a noun (obsolete):

    Strife, discord.

  1. Debate as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.

  2. Debate as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To fight.

  3. Debate as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To engage in combat for; to strive for.

  4. Debate as a verb (transitive):

    To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide

  1. Discuss as a verb (transitive):

    To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.

    Examples:

    "Let's sit down and discuss this rationally."

    "I don't wish to discuss this further. Let's talk about something else."

  2. Discuss as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).

  3. Discuss as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To break to pieces; to shatter.

  4. Discuss as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To deal with, in eating or drinking.

  5. Discuss as a verb (transitive, legal):

    To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.

  6. Discuss as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.

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