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du⋅el

  [doo-uhl, dyoo-] noun, verb, -eled, -el⋅ing or (especially British) -elled, -el⋅ling.
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–noun
1. a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, esp. to settle a private quarrel.
2. any contest between two persons or parties.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
3. to fight in a duel.
Origin:
1585–95; earlier duell < ML duellum, L: earlier form of bellum war, prob. maintained and given sense “duel” by assoc. with L duo two

Related forms:
du⋅el⋅is⋅tic; especially British, du⋅el⋅lis⋅tic, adjective
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du·el   (dōō'əl, dyōō'-)   
n.  
  1. A prearranged, formal combat between two persons, usually fought to settle a point of honor.
  2. A struggle for domination between two contending persons, groups, or ideas.
v.   du·eled or du·elled, du·el·ing or du·el·ling, du·els

v.   tr.
  1. To engage (another) in or as if in formal combat.
  2. To oppose actively and forcefully.
v.   intr.
To engage in or as if in formal combat.

[Middle English duelle, from Medieval Latin duellum, from Latin, war, archaic variant of bellum.]
du'el·er, du'el·ist n.
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Duel

Du"el\, n. [It. duello, fr. L. duellum, orig., a contest between two, which passed into the common form bellum war, fr. duo two: cf. F. duel. See Bellicose, Two, and cf. Duello.] A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other.

Trial by duel (Old Law), a combat between two persons for proving a cause; trial by battel.

Duel

Du"el\, v. i. & t. To fight in single combat. [Obs.]
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Language Translation for : duel
Spanish: duelo,
German: das Duell,
Japanese: 決闘
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duel 
c.1475, from M.L. duellum "combat between two persons," by association with L. duo "two," but originally from L. duellum "war," an Old Latin form of bellum. Retained in poetic and archaic language and apparently given a special meaning in M.L. or L.L. of "one-on-one combat" on fancied connection with duo "two."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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DUEL programming
A front end to gdb by Michael Golan . DUEL implements a language designed for debugging C programs. It features efficient ways to select and display data items. It is normally linked into the gdb executable, but could stand alone. It interprets a subset of C in addition to its own language.
Version 1.10.
(ftp://ftp.cs.princeton.edu/duel/).
(1993-03-20)

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