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# contest

«contest» in Mova's school dictionary: **a game, race or competition where people try to win, such…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (contest, contests); verb (contest, contests, contested — to argue against)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A contest is a game, race or competition where people try to win, such as a spelling contest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#m1)

2) To contest something is to argue that it is wrong or unfair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a story setting with points, scores, prizes, entrants or places to compare (first, second, third); school: spelling contests, art contests, science fairs; everyday life: pie-eating contests at the fair; stories: who wins, being a good loser

### examples

- Ten children entered the contest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x1)
- She won $50 in the contest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x2)
- In the pie-eating contest, Tom ate 4 pies and Ben ate 6. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x3)
- Each winner of the contest gets 3 books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x4)
- Our class held a spelling contest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x5)
- She came second in the drawing contest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x6)
- The contest ends on Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x7)
- It was a close contest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x8)
- Now let us have a little contest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x9)

### note

A word of the story; the counts are people, points or prizes. Trap: comparing two scores in a contest usually asks for a difference. Noun said «CON-test»; verb said «con-TEST».

### In the corpora

- [You cannot win a contest you never entered; «you have won» messages are tricks to steal information or money.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/22/)
- [Friendly contests are fun when nobody gets hurt and nobody needs to win.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/32/)
- [Bouncing contest instead,» and he went for it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/22/)
- [Present contests make people lie, and nobody really wins them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/29/)
- [You don't have to join every contest; stepping out often makes a rivalry fizzle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything/31/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «contest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.