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# contest

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

«contest» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A contest is a game, race or competition where people try to win, such as a spelling contest. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x1)
- She won $50 in the contest. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x3)
- Each winner of the contest gets 3 books. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x4)
- Our class held a spelling contest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x5)
- She came second in the drawing contest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x6)
- The contest ends on Friday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x7)
- It was a close contest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/#x8)
- Now let us have a little contest. [tree →](https://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».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «contest» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contest/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«contest» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/contest.html) on Mova free.