prize
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
Etymology: From Middle English prise, from Old French prise (“a taking, capture, a seizure, a thing seized, a prize, booty, also hold, purchase”), past participle of prendre (“to take, to capture”), from Latin prēndere (“to take, seize”); see prehend. Compare prison, apprise, comprise, enterprise, purprise, reprisal, surprise, etc. Doublet of prise.
Inflected forms:
form: prizes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prized
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
pos: noun
examples: […] wherefore he now begunne
To challenge her anew, as his owne prize,
Whom formerly he had in battell wonne,
gloss: Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
pos: noun
examples: Having taken all the Treasure on Board their own Ships, and plundered their Prize of every Thing elſe they either wanted or liked, they let her go; ſhe not being able to continue her Voyage, returned back: […]
gloss: An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
pos: noun
examples: I fought and conquer’d, yet have lost the prize.
gloss: That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
pos: noun
examples: Cecil Rhodes […] was never tired of impressing upon one that the fact of being an Englishman was “the greatest prize in the lottery of life,” and that it was that thought which always sustained him when he was troubled.
gloss: Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
pos: noun
examples: I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
gloss: A contest for a reward; competition.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Like one of two contending in a prize,
That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes […]
gloss: A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
pos: noun
gloss: To consider highly valuable; to esteem.
pos: verb
examples: […] I
Beyond all limit of what else i’ the world
Do love, prize, honour you.
I pris’d your Person, but your Crown disdain.
‘[…] An old broken cup has no value. No one prizes it.’
‘I prize it. It’s my museum, not yours.’
gloss: To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: […] no life,
I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour,
[…] a goodly price that I was prized at.
gloss: To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.
pos: verb
examples: ‘Find some other black boxes to prize open.’
gloss: To compete in a prizefight.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: Having won a prize; award-winning.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a prize vegetable
gloss: First-rate; exceptional.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He was a prize fool.
Related words: price
prise
Derived words: disprize
foreprize
outprize
overprize
prizable
prizer
underprize
unprizable
unprized
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