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
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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."
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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."
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Debate as a noun (uncountable):
Discussion of opposing views.
Examples:
"There has been considerable debate concerning exactly how to format these articles."
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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.
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Debate as a noun (obsolete):
Strife, discord.
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Debate as a verb (ambitransitive):
To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
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Debate as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):
To fight.
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Debate as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To engage in combat for; to strive for.
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Debate as a verb (transitive):
To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
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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."
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Discuss as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
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Discuss as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To break to pieces; to shatter.
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Discuss as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To deal with, in eating or drinking.
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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.
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Discuss as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.