argument

How to use argument in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for argument.

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There were compelling arguments about going down this road - or not.

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Quick take

a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of argument gathered in one view.

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a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"

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a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument"

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a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for argument.

noun

a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"

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a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument"

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a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"

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a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie; "the editor added the argument to the poem"

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(computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program

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a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable

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a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your line of reasoning"

Example sentences

There were compelling arguments about going down this road - or not.

I have no argument with that;- whiteboarding code by itself is not a great filter.

Even then precision is in question, which is why there's such an argument about the death penalty.

Actually that "broken profit model" isn't broken for some but thats another argument.

The second argument is where people start talking about the supposed benefits drones, because they're in theory more precise.

I mean, why deny something that's so self-evident?His arguments here are just so disingenuous.

Every argument works equally well in terms of fathers as well, yet she doesn't even take that second to even consider the issue.

One of them proceeded to tell me that this can't possibly work, backing up his argument with "reasoning" based on off-the-cuff remarks about the way air and physics "must" work.

Capping at 12 would mean that both parties arguing might get the same public presentation of 00FF00 and that might quell the need for parties to prove that they're the winner of the argument by popular vote.

"This argument betrays either a very weak understanding of how defensive patents work or a deep dishonesty of argumentation.

All of these standards can be applied fairly strictly, and with much less vagueness than notability.- It's not like Wikipedia is short of disk space to store a few million extra text articles.- The argument that it would be too difficult to maintain lots of extra articles is also weak, because not every article needs to be regularly edited, and more articles on niche topics might actually attract more editors.- No, we won't end up with a page for every John Doe and his cat.