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# win

«win» in Mova's school dictionary: **to be the best or come first in a game, race or competition** — 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

verb (win, wins, won, winning); noun (a win, wins)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To win means to be the best or come first in a game, race or competition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/win/#m1)

2) To win a prize is to get it because you did well or were lucky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/win/#m2)

3) A win is a game or match you won. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/win/#m3)

4) To win someone over is to get them to agree with you or like you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/win/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: games or prizes won; scores; games played = wins + losses (+ draws or ties); comparing medals. In everyday life: winning a race on sports day, a raffle, a board game; being a good winner and a good loser. Phrases: «win a prize», «win by 2 points», «win or lose», «a win-win» (good for both sides).

### examples

- The team won 8 games and lost 3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/win/#x1)
- She wins 5 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/win/#x2)
- How many games did they play? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/win/#x3)
- He won 3 more medals than Tom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/win/#x4)
- Our class won the tug of war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/win/#x5)
- You can't win every game, and that's okay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/win/#x6)
- She won first prize in the art contest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/win/#x7)
- They won by two goals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/win/#x8)
- Slow and steady wins the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/win/#x9)

### note

Past «won» (sounds like «one»). You win a game or a prize, but you beat a person or team: «we beat them», not «we won them». Maths: prizes won add to what one has. Games played = wins + losses (+ ties). Fair play: cheating to win is not a real win.

### In the corpora

- [A scratch card is a quick lottery ticket; the "almost won" feeling is designed to make people buy another.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/14/)
- [A prize won with someone else's work does not feel like winning; owning up is the brave thing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/15/)
- [Ukraine has won Eurovision three times: in 2004 with Ruslana, in 2016 with Jamala and in 2022 with Kalush Orchestra.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/10/)
- [Ukraine has won Eurovision three times: in 2004, 2016 and 2022.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/15/)
- [Banana skins are slippery because of a gel on the inside; scientists who measured it won the joke Ig Nobel Prize in 2014.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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