compete
part of speech
verb (compete, competes, competed, competing)
meaning for a pupil
1) To compete means to try to win against others in a race, game or contest. tree →
2) To compete means to try to be more successful than others, for example shops competing for customers. tree →
3) In nature, living things compete for food, water, light and space. tree →
sense in the lessons
In sports and school, pupils compete in races, quizzes, spelling bees and sports day. In science lessons on habitats, animals and plants compete for resources. Phrases: compete in, compete against, compete for, compete with.
examples
- Ten runners will compete in the race. tree →
- Our school competes against other schools in football. tree →
- Plants compete for sunlight. tree →
- Shops compete for customers by lowering prices. tree →
- She competed in the spelling bee. tree →
- It's more fun to compete fairly. tree →
- Birds compete for the best nesting places. tree →
- This was reported to the man who declared he would compete, ‘but,’ he said, ‘I shall let my servant run for me.’ tree →
note
Regular verb: competed (drop e, add -ed), competing. Noun: competition; person: competitor; adjective: competitive. Compete in an event, against or with a person, for a prize.
In the corpora
- A job interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to decide whom to hire; several people usually compete for one job.
- Not only European countries take part in Eurovision: Australia has competed since 2015, and Israel takes part too.
- LEGO Masters is a real TV show where adult teams compete at building, and some adults design sets as their job.
- Competing is fine, but hurting a teammate to win is never fine.
- A rival is someone you compete against, not someone you hate.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «compete» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.