What's the difference between prize and trophy?

Prize


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
  • (n.) Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
  • (n.) A contest for a reward; competition.
  • (n.) A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
  • (v. t.) To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.
  • (v. t.) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
  • (v. t.) To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.
  • (n.) Estimation; valuation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
  • (2) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
  • (3) The 61-year-old paid to transport prize-winning children to the fair in St Thomas and funded their accommodation.
  • (4) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.
  • (5) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
  • (6) Three scientists, George Wald, Ragnar Granit, and Haldan Keffer Hartline, were named last week to share the 1967 Nobel prize in medicine or physiology.
  • (7) The agency notes, too, that the Norwegian broadcaster NRK has form when it comes to announcing peace prize winners early, saying last year the EU had triumphed an hour before the official announcement.
  • (8) Concern for the future and belief in scientific progress provided the motive for the foundation of the Prize which, in our time, is one of the most coveted of honours.
  • (9) The launch of M-Farm followed a €10,000 (about £8,500) investment prize.
  • (10) The young woman is Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, then part of the new guard of dissidents and critics, now the president of Liberia.
  • (11) How can a prize that is supposed to be for one person be given to an amorphous supranational organisation?
  • (12) But there was a shock with the Jury prize, which went to Polisse, one of the four films in competition directed by a woman.
  • (13) For many, free movement is the price that has to be paid for the prize of single market membership.
  • (14) GNM accepts no responsibility for any costs associated with the prize that are not expressly included in the prize.
  • (15) The IPCC is charged with providing a scientific, balanced assessment about what's known and what's known about climate change There are lots of organisations ringing bells The IPCC is more like a belltower, which people can climb up to get a clear view 8.41am BST Al Gore , the former US vice-president and winner of the Nobel peace prize for his work on climate change , has responded to the IPCC report by saying it shows the need for a switch to low carbon sources of energy (note his emphasis is on mitigation, i.e.
  • (16) Peter Vipond, director of regulation and tax at the Association of British Insurers, said: "We are concerned that so far none of the bodies will have a statutory objective to maintain London's competitiveness as a global financial sector – this is too valuable a prize to be thrown away."
  • (17) Boyle, who on Sunday night received an outstanding contribution prize at the Empire awards, said he was not a fan of stereoscope on film and doubted it would survive.
  • (18) The possible reasons why Kitasato lost the first Nobel Prize for medicine to von Behring are presented.
  • (19) The Tasmanian writer said he was “stunned” to be in the running for the prestigious UK-based literary prize, which for the first time has been opened to authors of any nationality.
  • (20) But NS&I has announced that it is cutting the prize fund rate from 1 May, although the chances of winning a prize will remain the same at 30,000-1 as the number of £25 prizes will increase.

Trophy


Definition:

  • (n.) A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people.
  • (n.) The representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp. (Arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.
  • (n.) Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc.
  • (n.) Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
  • (2) Already this season they have won three trophies and could yet make it five out of six if they win the Champions League and Copa del Rey.
  • (3) Europe produced the greatest comeback in the tournament's history to reel in the US and retain the trophy.
  • (4) Moyes is relishing the visit by Chelsea and said: "I came for this sort of level but I came to win trophies and if you are going to win them then you do need to beat teams like Chelsea and Manchester City because that's the way our league is.
  • (5) The brewery kept winning trophies at the Australian International Beer Awards year in, year out, yet its head brewer refused to send beer east until he could guarantee refrigerated transport.
  • (6) Patrick Vieira, captain and on-pitch embodiment of Wenger’s reign, won the trophy with the last kick of his career at the club in the season when the Arsenal-United axis was finally broken by Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
  • (7) After that attack, he said, body parts of some of the dead and wounded had been hung in trees as a "kind of trophy for the world to see".
  • (8) Löw’s side became the first from Europe to claim the trophy on Latin American soil courtesy of Götze’s fine 113th-minute finish from André Schürrle’s delivery.
  • (9) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
  • (10) The overthrow of the Greek government so that (German finance minister Wolfgang) Schaüble could claim Tsipras’s head as a trophy.
  • (11) He had to watch her score a hat-trick and lift the trophy on television instead.
  • (12) England will still return home having retained, for what it is worth, the Wisden Trophy.
  • (13) Chelsea have an unorthodox way of gathering trophies but it is a successful one – and they will cherish this as one of their great nights.
  • (14) Before things get out of hand, the trophy is presented to Steven Gerrard, who hoists it skywards with a loud roar.
  • (15) The modern era has seen numerous format changes for the trophy.
  • (16) The winner in the 94th minute, from Jonathan Woodgate, came through a mistake by the Chelsea goalkeeper, Petr Cech, but the result itself was no accident and Tottenham earned their first trophy in nine years.
  • (17) This wasn’t about him; this first part of the event, before he headed out to the pitch where the trophies and the fans awaited him, was not much of a goodbye.
  • (18) They won the Supporters’ Shield in 2013, the club’s biggest trophy to date.
  • (19) Two years later, the offices of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were trashed after an all-night siege , with looters seizing door-labels of prominent Brotherhood leaders as trophies.
  • (20) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."