Challenger

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim One who challenges.

   “[C]ertainly there is no true orator who is not a hero. […] He is challenger and must answer all comers.”

2. isim One who confronts or opposes; a confronter, an opposer.

   “challengers of traditional attitudes”

3. isim One who plays against the current champion of a contest or game in hopes of winning and becoming the new champion.

   “The champion hopes to defeat his new challenger in the game to remain undefeated.”

4. isim One who brings a legal claim; a claimant, a plaintiff; also, one who accuses; an accuser.

   “Novv vvhen they vvere come before Appius, ſitting judicially upon his tribunall ſeate, the plaintife or challenger aforeſaid, declareth againſt her, […]”

5. isim Often in the form Challenger: a match, tournament, or tour of the second-highest tier organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals.
6. özel isim A space shuttle, named after HMS Challenger (1858), destroyed on January 28, 1986 with loss of its seven-member crew.
7. isim A steam locomotive of the 4-6-6-4 wheel arrangement.

   “American Locomotive Company, which introduced the 4-6-6-4 (on Union Pacific) in 1936, constructed more Challengers than any other builder and, in Northern Pacific's Z-8 class, built the heaviest. NP owned 48 4-6-6-4's in three classes.”

8. isim Alternative letter-case form of challenger (“a match, tournament, or tour of the second-highest tier organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals”).