prize
part of speech
noun (prize, prizes); verb (prize, prizes, prized, prizing); adjective (a prize pumpkin)
meaning for a pupil
1) A prize is something you win for doing well in a game, race or contest. tree →
2) A prize is anything very valuable that people want to get. tree →
3) To prize something is to value it very much. tree →
4) A prize animal or plant is one good enough to win prizes. tree →
sense in the lessons
things won; prize money shared among winners; in school: prizes for spelling, art or sports day; in stories: the hero wins the prize or a treasure; in everyday life: raffles and quizzes with prizes; phrases: «first prize», «win a prize», «prize-giving», «the Nobel Prize»
examples
- The prize is $60 shared among 3 winners. tree →
- 5 prizes were given. tree →
- First prize is twice second prize. tree →
- Each prize costs $4. tree →
- She won first prize in the art contest. tree →
- The prize for the quiz was a box of chocolates. tree →
- He grew a prize pumpkin for the fair. tree →
- Grandma prizes her old photos. tree →
- At prize-giving, everyone clapped for the winners. tree →
- "The gold piece is your prize." tree →
note
Shared prize money: divide by winners ($60 ÷ 3 = $20). «Twice second prize» means second prize × 2. Homophone: «pries» (from pry) sounds the same. Do not confuse «prize» (a reward) with «price» (what something costs).
In the corpora
- Free prizes that want your password are traps."
- A prize won with someone else's work does not feel like winning; owning up is the brave thing.
- Banana skins are slippery because of a gel on the inside; scientists who measured it won the joke Ig Nobel Prize in 2014.
- Many places no longer give goldfish as fair prizes, because a fish in a small bag is stressed and often dies soon after.
- Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize in 1973 for working out the bee dance.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «prize» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.