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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
prize
adjective: of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize
carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches" [syn: {choice},
{prime(a)}, {quality}, {select}]
noun
1: something given for victory or superiority in a contest or
competition or for winning a lottery; "the prize was a
free trip to Europe" [syn: {award}]
2: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: {loot}, {booty}, {pillage},
{plunder}, {swag}, {dirty money}]
3: something given as a token of victory [syn: {trophy}]
verb
1: hold dear; "I prize these old photographs" [syn: {value}, {treasure},
{appreciate}]
2: to move or force, especially in an effort to get something
open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to
pry the lid off the garbage pail" [syn: {pry}, {prise}, {lever},
{jimmy}]
3: regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We
prize his creativity" [syn: {respect}, {esteem}, {value},
{prise}] [ant: {disrespect}, {disrespect}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prize \Prize\, noun [F. prix price. See 3d {Prize}. ]
Estimation; valuation. [Obs.] --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prize \Prize\ (pr[imac]z), noun [F. prise a seizing, hold, grasp,
fr. pris, p. p. of prendre to take, L. prendere, prehendere;
in some senses, as 2
(b), either from, or influenced by, F. prix price. See
{Prison}, {Prehensile}, and cf. {Pry}, and also {Price}.]
1. That which is taken from another; something captured; a
thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
I will depart my pris, or my prey, by deliberation.
--Chaucer.
His own prize,
Whom formerly he had in battle won. --Spenser.
2. Hence, specifically;
(a) (Law) Anything captured by a belligerent using the
rights of war; esp., property captured at sea in
virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel. --Kent.
--Brande & C.
(b) An honor or reward striven for in a competitive
contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an
inducement to, or reward of, effort.
I'll never wrestle for prize more. --Shak.
I fought and conquered, yet have lost the prize.
--Dryden.
(c) That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
3. Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or
in prospect.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high
calling of God in Christ Jesus. --Phil. iii.
14.
4. A contest for a reward; competition. [Obs.] --Shak.
5. A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever. [Written also
{prise}.]
{Prize court}, a court having jurisdiction of all captures
made in war on the high seas. --Bouvier.
{Prize fight}, an exhibition contest, esp. one of pugilists,
for a stake or wager.
{Prize fighter}, one who fights publicly for a reward; --
applied esp. to a professional boxer or pugilist. --Pope.
{Prize fighting}, fighting, especially boxing, in public for
a reward or wager.
{Prize master}, an officer put in charge or command of a
captured vessel.
{Prize medal}, a medal given as a prize.
{Prize money}, a dividend from the proceeds of a captured
vessel, etc., paid to the captors.
{Prize ring}, the ring or inclosure for a prize fight; the
system and practice of prize fighting.
{To make prize of}, to capture. --Hawthorne.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prize \Prize\, verb (used with an object)
To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry. [Written
also {prise}.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prize \Prize\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Prized}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Prizing}.] [F. priser, OF. prisier, preisier, fr. L.
pretiare, fr. pretium worth, value, price. See {Price}, and
cf. {Praise}.] [Formerly written also {prise}. ]
1. To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to
rate.
A goodly price that I was prized at. --Zech. xi.
13.
I prize it [life] not a straw, but for mine honor.
--Shak.
2. To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to
esteem. ''[I] do love, prize, honor you. '' --Shak.
I prized your person, but your crown disdain.
--Dryden.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
286 Moby Thesaurus words for "prize":
Academy Award, Nobel Prize, Oscar, accolade, accord respect to,
admire, adore, aim, ambition, apotheosize, appraise, appreciate,
apprize, arch, ascribe importance to, assay, assess, award, bar,
barrow, beam, best, blackmail, boast, booby prize, boodle, boom,
booty, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, calculate, calibrate,
caliper, call, cant hook, carrot, catch, cenotaph, champion,
check a parameter, cherish, choice, chosen, class, claw bar,
column, compute, consolation prize, crank, cream, cromlech, cross,
crow, crowbar, cup, cyclolith, dearest wish, dearly love, defer to,
deify, desideration, desideratum, desire, dial, diamond, divide,
dividend, dolmen, elect, elite, entertain respect for, esteem,
estimate, evaluate, exalt, excellent, fair-trade, fat, fathom,
favor, figure, find, first prize, first-rate, flower, footstone,
for the best, forbidden fruit, form an estimate, fulcrumage, gain,
gauge, gem, get a foothold, get leverage, give an appreciation,
glimmering goal, goal, godsend, golden vision, good thing,
graduate, graft, grave, gravestone, greatest, guerdon, guess,
handpicked, handspike, haul, headstone, hero-worship, hoarstone,
hold dear, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, honor, hope,
hot goods, idolize, inscription, iron crow, jackpot, jewel, jimmy,
lever, leverage, limb, lodestone, look up to, loot,
love to distraction, magnet, make an estimation, make much of,
mark, marker, marlinespike, matchless, mausoleum, measure, meed,
megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column,
memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, mensurate, mete, meter,
monolith, monument, mound, necrology, nonesuch, nonpareil, obelisk,
obituary, optimal, optimum, outrigger, outstanding, pace, paragon,
paramount, pearl, peavey, pedal, peerless, perks, perquisite, pick,
picked, pickings, pillar, pinch bar, plaque, plum, plumb, plunder,
pork barrel, premium, price, pride, pride and joy, prime, probe,
pry, public till, public trough, purse, pyramid, quantify,
quantize, queen, quintessence, quintessential, quote a price, rank,
rate, rate highly, receipts, reckon, regard, reliquary,
remembrance, respect, revere, reverence, reward, ribbon,
ripping bar, rostral column, second prize, select, set store by,
shaft, shrine, size, size up, sound, span, spar, spoil, spoils,
spoils of office, squeeze, stakes, stealings, stela, step,
stolen goods, stone, stupa, superior, superlative, supreme,
surpassing, survey, swag, sweepstakes, tablet, take,
take a reading, temptation, testimonial, the best, the best ever,
the tops, the very best, think highly of, think much of,
think well of, till, tomb, tombstone, top, tope, treadle, treasure,
triangulate, trophy, trouvaille, unmatchable, unmatched,
unparalleled, unsurpassed, valorize, valuate, value, venerate,
very best, wedge, weigh, windfall, winner, winnings, wish, worship,
wrecking bar
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