Compete
[kəm'piːt] or [kəm'pit]
Definition
(verb.) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others.
Typed by Ewing--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.
Typed by Benjamin
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Contend, strive, struggle, cope, enter the lists, be rivals.
Editor: Lorna
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Contend, rival, cope, emulate
ANT:Participate, share
Inputed by Jenny
Definition
v.i. to seek or strive with others for something: to contend for a prize.—n. Competi′tion the act of competing: common strife for the same object.—adj. Compet′itive pertaining to or characterised by competition.—n. Compet′itor one who competes: a rival or opponent.
Checker: Paulette
Examples
- A set of animals, with their organisation but little diversified, could hardly compete with a set more perfectly diversified in structure. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- When you have to compete with the rich and influential, it will probably be mentioned to you,' said Miss Lavvy, 'in good time. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But in England water gas could not compete with coal gas in cheapness. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- You've got no money, and you want to compete with those who have. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- German manufacturers are making great efforts to compete in this field, but American machines are generally regarded as the best in the world. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is certain that none of us can compete with thy speed in writing, went on Father Melchior. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I dispatched Colonel Oglesby at once with troops sufficient to compete with the reported number of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- To all the purposes of politics it is settled, for instance, that the trust will never be unscrambled into small competing businesses. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Graham, it chanced, was at that time greatly preoccupied about some school-prizefor which he was competing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- When the war over the twine-binder ended there were only twenty-two competing firms left; before that there had been over a hundred. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Jay Gould at that time controlled the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company, and was competing with the Western Union and endeavoring to depress Western Union stock on the Exchange. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There are competing claims to the invention of Centrifugal Pumps in the form now adopted. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Three other engines competed with the Rocket, two of which had attained great speed on previous trials. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In one such meeting it is said that forty machines competed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It has so cheapened steel that it now competes with iron in price. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Checked by Hillel