(a.) To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to win a battle, or to win a country.
(a.) To allure to kindness; to bring to compliance; to gain or obtain, as by solicitation or courtship.
(a.) To gain over to one's side or party; to obtain the favor, friendship, or support of; to render friendly or approving; as, to win an enemy; to win a jury.
(a.) To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.
(a.) To extract, as ore or coal.
(v. i.) To gain the victory; to be successful; to triumph; to prevail.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was the first to win as a captain and a manager.
(2) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
(3) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
(4) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
(5) As James said in Friday’s announcement, his goal was to win championships, and in Miami he was able to reach the NBA Finals every year.
(6) We are deeply saddened," said Nyan Win, a spokesman of National League for Democracy.
(7) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
(8) No one expected us to win either of these byelections, but we can’t ignore how disappointing these results are,” he said, referring also to last week’s Richmond Park byelection.
(9) If Del Bosque really want to win this World Cup thingymebob, then he has got to tell Iker Casillas that the jig is up, correct?
(10) Perhaps there were some other generations in Portuguese football with more talent, but they didn’t win.
(11) The review will now be delayed for five years, leaving the next election to be fought on the existing constituency boundaries, and seriously damaging David Cameron's chances of winning an overall majority in 2015.
(12) Everyone is expecting them to win and I think that’s a double-edged sword.
(13) Unfortunately for the governor, he could win both states and still face the overwhelming likelihood of failure if he doesn't take Ohio, where the poll found Obama out front 51-43.
(14) Winning and losing were predicted to be more significant in determining cardiovascular responses for Type A's than for Type B's.
(15) The result will be yet another humiliating hammering for Labour in a seat it could never win, but hey, never mind.
(16) That’s why I thought: ‘I hope Tyson wins – even if he never gives me a shot.’ As long as the heavyweight titles are out of Germany we could have some interesting fights.
(17) In confidence rape, the assailant is known to some degree, however slight, and gains control over his victim by winning her trust.
(18) With their 43-8 win , the Seahawks did more than just produce one of the most dominant performances in Super Bowl history, they gave the city of Seattle its first major professional sports win in 35 years .
(19) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(20) The only lesson I’ll learn from this is don’t win in the third round.
Wis
Definition:
(adv.) Certainly; really; indeed.
(v. t.) To think; to suppose; to imagine; -- used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the Marshfield Clinic, however, a group practice in Marshfield, Wis., physicians did not know the source of payment for the vast majority of their patients (79.3 percent).
(2) Forested areas adjacent to Milwaukee, Wis., and Chicago, Ill., were investigated for rodents and ticks infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease.
(3) Because of our slightly younger average age and city location, we were supposedly one of the "new wave" WIs that had started springing up in the years before – groups that rejected crochet and did more modern activities, often with more than a tinge of irony.
(4) Eimeria tenella strain Wis-F is known to develop in chickens with a significantly shortened prepatent period and its pathogenicity is virtually completely attenuated.
(5) The inhibitory effect of L-lysine on penicillin biosynthesis by Penicillium chrysogenum has been compared in a low-producing strain (Wis. 54-1255) and a high-producing strain (ASP-78).
(6) The first-round demonstration at Marshfield, Wis, was operational for 28 months.
(7) The immunizing abilities of the attenuated line and its parent were compared by priming groups of chickens with numbers of oocysts of WisF96 or Wis, designed to produce infections of equal magnitude in terms of oocysts production (standard inocula), and then challenging with oocysts of Wis.
(8) We prospectively studied all transfers from community hospitals to the Zablocki Veterans Administration Medical Center in Milwaukee (Wis) between May 28, 1986, and January 1, 1987.
(9) This family of retroelements (termed WIS-2) occurs in the genomes of barley, wheat, rye, oats, and Aegilops species.
(10) There are around 6,600 WIs, with 520 new groups forming in the last four years alone – many of which have been in cities (until relatively recently, the WI was restricted to rural communities).
(11) The life-cycle of a precocious and attenuated line (WisF96) of Eimeria tenella, derived from the Wisconsin (Wis) strain, contained only the first of the three generations of schizogony undergone by the parent strain.
(12) Few sporozoites from the WIS strain developed into schizonts, but numerous sporozoites from the FS139 strain developed into normal first and second generation schizonts.
(13) A total of 147 preterm pregnant women at Orlando Regional Medical Center were screened for group B streptococci by using Lim Group B Strep Broth (GIBCO Laboratories, Madison, Wis.) and the Phadebact Strep B Test (Pharmacia Diagnostics, Piscataway, N.J.).
(14) Subacute hematomas had peripheral hyperintensity on T1-WIs and then on T2-WIs.
(15) The WARF Institute, Inc. (Madison, Wis) has been preparing most of the crude plant extracts for antitumor screening for the past 14 years.
(16) The Wis-F-96 strain did not adequately immunize chickens in these experiments.
(17) Despite antibiotic therapy, four developed WIs caused by these organisms.
(18) This concept was examined in cultured, aortic VSMCs (passages 6-10) from SHR, Wistar-Kyoto (WKY), and American Wistar (Wis) rats.
(19) Bond recalls Baroness Kennedy QC speaking at the Women of the World festival in 2012 and remembering how instrumental WIs had been in getting recognition of rape within marriage on to the political agenda.
(20) Clones of P. chrysogenum Wis 54-1255 transformed with the ips gene showed a five-fold higher isopenicillin N synthase activity than the untransformed cultures.