argument vs war

argument

noun
  • A verbal dispute; a quarrel. 

  • An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves. 

  • Any dispute, altercation, or collision. 

  • The independent variable of a function. 

  • A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function. 

  • A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter. 

  • Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause. 

  • A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason. 

  • A process of reasoning; argumentation. 

  • The phase of a complex number. 

  • A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends. 

  • A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises. 

war

noun
  • A particular conflict of this kind. 

  • Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces. 

  • A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control. 

  • Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time. 

  • An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue. 

  • Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists. 

  • A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade. 

  • Campaigns against various social problems. 

verb
  • To carry on, as a contest; to wage. 

  • To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe). 

How often have the words argument and war occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )