Jig fit /fait/ [u T] to take part in a sport in which you hit your opponent or try to throw him onto the ground: Tyson fought Bruno for the Worid Heavyweight Championship. I The two wrestlers have fought each other many times before.
fighting - fought - have fought
Jig fit /fait/ |n C] a game in which twro people hit each other or try to throw each other onto the ground: Are you going to
watch the big fight tonight? + between the fight between Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano
boxing /'bDksjgfltak-/ [n U] a sport in which two people wearing special thick gloves hit each other and try to make the other person fall onto the ground boxing match (=a game of boxing) boxer[n C] someone who does boxing
wrestling /'resliq/ In U) a sport in which two people hold each other and try to throw each other onto the ground wrestling match (=a game of wrestling) wrestler |n C] someone who does wrestling
El when soldiers try to kill other soldiers
• see also war
FIGHT
fight/fait/ [и 1/T1 if soldiers fight, they try to kill other soldiers in a war or battle jight in a war/battle/campaign (=be а soldier in a war etc) As a young man, he fought in the Spanish Civil War. jight for sb/sth (=fight to defend your country or ruler) He died fighting for his country.
+ against His grandfather fought
against the Russians on the Eastern Front.
fighting - fought - have fought
Aonly use fightas a transitive verb [vT]
when talking about two countries or armies that fight each other: The British and German armies fought each other in Northern France.
fighting /"faitiq/ [n U] when soldiers fight during a war or battle: There has been fighting in the capital, and around 1000 people have been killed. I The road was full of refugees trying to escape the fighting in Bosnia.
battle /'baetl/ [n C] a fight between two armies in one place: After a long battle, the rebels were defeated. the Battle of Waterloo/Stalingrad etc
The Battle of the Somme started on the first of July, 1916.
ш to try hard to stop something happening or to make something happen
fight /fait/ (u 1/Г] to try hard for a long time to stop something bad from happening or to make something good happen fight sth (=fight to stop it from happening) IVe are determined to fight drug abuse in schools.
fight for freedom/independence/your rights etc (=fight in order to achieve something good) Freedom of speech is something worth fighting for. fight to do sth Local people have been fighting to save the forest.
jight against terror ism/injustice/poverty
(=fight to stop it from happening) Amnesty is an organization that fights against torture and injustice.
fighting - fought - have fought
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campaign /кает'рет/ [у 1] to do things, such as writing to the government and organizing public meetings, because you
want to change society or stop something bad from happening
+ against Greenpeace campaigned against nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific. + for Disabled people have been campaigning for equal rights for years.
campaign to do sth The animal rights movement is campaigning to stop experiments on live animals.
/ight /fait/ |n singular] when people try hard for a long time to stop something bad from happening or to make something good happen
+ against New laws have been passed to help the police in their fight against organized crime. + for women's fight for equality
battle /'baetl/ [n С usually singular] when a person or group tries hard for a long time to change a bad situation, or deal with a problem in society
+ against her long battle against cancer I The President is fully committed to the baitle against the drug traffickers.
Struggle /'str^l/ [n С usually singular] when people try for many years to get freedom, independence, or equal rights, and a lot of people suffer, are killed, or are put in prison
+ for Nkrumah led the people in their struggle for independence. + against He devoted his life to the struggle against fascism and oppression.
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books/literature musk a free л me
story
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films and going to see them
film especially british fTlOVie especially
american /film, 'muiviI [n C] a story that is told using sound and moving pictures
+ about a movie about the Vietnam War see a film/movie Have you seen any good films lately? I I went to see 'Blue Velvet' last night.
Д You can also use film or movie before
a noun, like an adjective: a film studio I
movie stars
cinema British movie theater american /'sinj,m3, muivi ,0i3t3r; [n С] a building where you go to see films: the MGM cinema in Leicester Square I a moute theater built
in the 1930s
go to the cinema British go to the movies American ,дэо ta Зэ 'sin^ma, ,дэо 1э дэ 'mu:viz/ to go to a cinema in order to see a film: Do you want to go to the mouies this weekend? | / hauen'f been to the cinema for ages.
be on especially British be playing especially american /bi: 'on, bi: 'plei-ig/ if а film is on or is playing, it is being shown at a cinema: Whafs on at the cinema this weekend? I 'Diehard' is playing at the Majestic.
types of film
horror film
horror /ilm/horror movie /hor3r
film, Ьогзг .muiviU'ho:-, ha:-/ [n С] a film that is intended to make you feel frightened, for example one in which people get attacked by strange creatures, or in which dead
people come to life comedy /'kDmadill'ka:-/ [n Cj a film that is
intended to make you laugh
science jktion /ilm/science fiction movie /,saians fikpn film. ,sams
fjkpn rnu;vi/ [n C] a film about life in the
future, often with people or creatures who live in other parts of the universe
thriller /'вп1эг/ [n C] a film that tells an exciting story about murder or crime
western
western /'westa'n/ [n C] a film about
cowboys and life in the 19th century in the American West
war film/war movie /'wo:r film, wo:r
,mu:vi/ [n С] a film about people fighting a war
action movie /'aekpn ,mu:vi/ [n C] a film