challenge

A confrontation; a dare.

Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?

A confrontation; a dare.

a challenge to the king's authority

For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.

A confrontation; a dare.

Argentine midfielder Jonas Gutierrez added a superb second when he surged past four challenges to fire in low.

A confrontation; a dare.

A confrontation; a dare.

The somewhat-shattered San Francisco also managed to make it out, although not before she'd come within seconds of being blown out of the water by Helena, as the two had lost contact in the dark and the flagship had loomed back out of the murk with no one and nothing available to answer the light cruiser's challenge - the radio, the whistle, the signal lights, the flags, et cetera, had all been destroyed. Luckily, one of the few surviving signalmen found a small handheld signal light and managed to blink out the ship's hull number.

To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.

We challenged the boys next door to a game of football.

By this I challenge him to single fight.

To dare (someone).

[...] For I challenge any Man to make any pretence to Power by Right of Fatherhood, either intelligible or poſſible in any one, otherwiſe, then either as Adams heir, or as Progenitor over his own deſcendants, naturally ſprung from him.

To dispute (something); to contest.

to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation

In the April 2020 Roade fatality, the worker who died "was reputedly in the habit of walking on the line when he didn't need to". Tragically, no one challenged him about it.

To call something into question or dispute.

New information challenged old hypotheses.

To make a formal objection to a juror.