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Meaning of conflict

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  conflict
      n 1: an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);
           "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--
           Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between
           the pro- and anti-abortion mobs" [syn: {conflict},
           {struggle}, {battle}]
      2: opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible
         feelings; "he was immobilized by conflict and indecision"
      3: 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" [syn: {battle}, {conflict},
         {fight}, {engagement}]
      4: a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests;
         "his conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post";
         "a conflict of loyalties"
      5: an incompatibility of dates or events; "he noticed a conflict
         in the dates of the two meetings"
      6: opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters
         or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the
         development of the plot); "this form of conflict is essential
         to Mann's writing"
      7: a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had
         a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable
         differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and
         Democrats" [syn: {dispute}, {difference}, {difference of
         opinion}, {conflict}]
      v 1: be in conflict; "The two proposals conflict!"
      2: go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afoul of the law";
         "This behavior conflicts with our rules" [syn: {conflict},
         {run afoul}, {infringe}, {contravene}]

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