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hostilities

hɑˈstɪlətiz
WordNet
Under the watchful eye of Minerva, Odysseus and the hostile Ithacans reconcile. They fall into each other's arms. The print is part of an album.
Under the watchful eye of Minerva, Odysseus and the hostile Ithacans reconcile. They fall into each other's arms. The print is part of an album.
  1. (n) hostilities
    fighting; acts of overt warfare "the outbreak of hostilities"
Illustrations
Soldiers compete on two hostile galleys. Some drowning people in the water. Top right: 8. B.
Soldiers compete on two hostile galleys. Some drowning people in the water. Top right: 8. B.
Five Indians place arrows in the ground along the road leading out of a hostile village. According to the Latin title, this is the way to declare war on the enemy.
Five Indians place arrows in the ground along the road leading out of a hostile village. According to the Latin title, this is the way to declare war on the enemy.
In the night an Indian village is attacked by a hostile tribe. The Indians are in their huts. There are holes in the roofs for smoke extraction. The attackers are aiming at the arrows.
In the night an Indian village is attacked by a hostile tribe. The Indians are in their huts. There are holes in the roofs for smoke extraction. The attackers are aiming at the arrows.
John Bull (Great Britain) like a shining sun, the happy and safe center of a hostile solar system. It is surrounded by its satellites or planets: all kinds of enemies including the Corsican comet (Napoleon), the American electric ray (Torpedo) and the Dutch frog.
John Bull (Great Britain) like a shining sun, the happy and safe center of a hostile solar system. It is surrounded by its satellites or planets: all kinds of enemies including the Corsican comet (Napoleon), the American electric ray (Torpedo) and the Dutch frog.
Quotations
Thomas Carlyle
Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.
Thomas Carlyle
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Elizabeth Bowen
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
Elizabeth Bowen
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
Norman Mailer
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
John Berger
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Seneca
Idioms

Hostile takeover - If a company is bought out when it does not want to be, it is known as a hostile takeover.

Usage in the news

This picture of parishioners from Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church was taken before hostilities broke out. columbian.com

Vislink has announced that it will launch its new Advent Mantis "MSAT" Man Portable Data Terminal, a highly portable tri-band satellite antenna system specifically designed for rapid deployment in hostile environments, at CABSAT 2012. broadcastengineering.com

Hostility toward the European Union is increasing, making British withdrawal a real possibility and creating a big headache for the Conservative-led government. latimes.com

To survive in a hostile world, guys need to embrace girly jobs and dirty diapers. newsweek.com

The Republican front-runner's pointed refusal to play the Iowa game this time around is inspiring a hostile backlash from the state's politicos. theatlantic.com

Alice ( Milla Jovovich) hunts those responsible for the outbreak while trying to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. ktuu.com

That Turkey has grown unrelentingly hostile to Israel, and cozy with Iran, is no longer news. commentarymagazine.com

But it is news, of the most disturbing kind, that Washington has chosen to actively collaborate in both the hostility and the coziness. commentarymagazine.com

Depending on your definition of the word "incursion," this fourth entry in Ron MacLeod's Cycles series of audio source libraries could provide perfect background music for your next brief hostile takeover. emusician.com

Obama's negation of 'hostilities' in Libya draws criticism. ashingtonpost.com

And by officially reviving hostilities with Microsoft last week, Netscape Communications has displayed a hard-won understanding of the principles of technology marketing in the Internet era. nytimes.com

Direct hostilities would risk retaliation against Tehran's nuclear-weapons program. online.wsj.com

Did hostile classroom remarks about creationism violate the mandate that the government remain neutral on religion. csmonitor.com

Pomeroy entered the hostile environs of Touchet's gym, and emerged with a 20-25, 25-20, 25-15, 26-18, 15-5 Southeast 1B volleyball victory Tuesday night. union-bulletin.com

In my review ( NYR, May 12) of Mr Pryce-Jones's biography of Unity Mitford, I mentioned that a hostile review of that book in the TLS in London had been cut by the editor before appearance. nybooks.com

Usage in scientific papers

Such mobile sensor networks are extremely valuable in situations where traditional deployment mechanisms fail or are not suitable, for example, a hostile environment where sensors cannot be manually deployed or air-dropped.
Dynamic Coverage of Mobile Sensor Networks

Envision a scenario where mobile or static sensor nodes are deployed in a large spatially-extended region and the environment is unknown, possibly hostile, the tasks are unforeseeable, and the sensor nodes have no prior classification scheme/language to communicate regarding detecting and sensing ob jects.
Naming Games in Two-Dimensional and Small-World-Connected Random Geometric Networks

In this case, however, these stored values are more vulnerable to leakage, particularly when DHKE is deployed in hostile environments with plagued spyware or virus and in view of that the offline pre-computed DH-components are much less protected in practice as they are actually public values to be exchanged in plain.
A New Family of Practical Non-Malleable Diffie-Hellman Protocols

In this case, however, these stored values are more vulnerable to leakage, particularly when DHKE is deployed in hostile environments with plagued spyware or virus and in view of that the offline pre-computed DH-components are much less protected in practice as they are actually public values to be exchanged in plain.
A New Family of Practical Non-Malleable Diffie-Hellman Protocols

An empirical study into the security exposure to hosts of hostile virtualized environments.
Batch-oriented software appliances

Usage in literature

The relations between these two men ranged from open hostility to a peace of the most fragile character. "Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15)" by Charles Morris

Although Canonchet's sympathies were with Philip, it is not certain that the Narragansett chief had hostile designs against the English. "The Land We Live In" by Henry Mann

They are not favorable to man, but rather hostile to him. "The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria" by Morris Jastrow

The fraction making the rush should be as large as the hostile fire and the necessity for maintaining fire superiority will permit. "Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911" by United States War Department

Kazan had expelled the nephew of the Khan of the Crimea whom Ivan III had appointed, and elected a Khan hostile to Russia. "The Story of Russia" by R. Van Bergen

Beginning of Indian Hostility. "History of the United States, Vol. I (of VI)" by E. Benjamin Andrews

The hostility of the Koreish had already been aroused. "A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád'" by Moulavi Gerágh Ali

The Dutch parties are in a course of hostilities which it will be difficult to suspend. "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson" by Thomas Jefferson

But though Clodius had somehow been prevented from hindering his recall, he by no means relaxed his hostility. "The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1" by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do I not know that I am in a hostile city? "Before the Dawn" by Joseph Alexander Altsheler

Usage in poetry
Like Joshua, make thou our leaders strong,
That they like him, may chase the hostile throng,
Their schemes and stratagems do thou attend,
That they may bring them to a prosp'rous end.
She, our famed tutoress, with kind endeavour,
Bound us from that day forth with heart and hand,
When met fair Elgga's tribes, that we should never
In hostile ranks before each other stand.
And to-night the moon shall shudder
As she looks down on the moor,
Where the dead of hostile races
Slumber, slaughtered in their places;
All their rigid ghastly faces
Spattered hideously with gore.
In vain, in vain they threaten me!
I speed on with redoubled blows.
The haughty crags have I outgazed,
And, where such hostile front they raised,
Now in a long defile they flee,
Nor one behind another shows.
Forever sundered and forever one,
Linked by a bond whose spell I may not guess,
Our hostile, yet embracing currents run;
Such wedlock lonelier is than loneliness.
Baffled, withheld, I clasp the bride I shun.
If we but knew the weary way,
The poisoned paths of hostile hate,
The roughened roads of fiercest fate,
Through which our brother's journey lay,
Would we condemn, as now we do,
His faults and failures,--if we knew?