win
IPA: wˈɪn
noun
- An individual victory.
- (slang) A feat carried out successfully; a victorious achievement.
- (obsolete) Gain; profit; income.
- (obsolete) Wealth; goods owned.
- (Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.
- (colloquial) A Winchester firearm.
- (computing) Windows, an operating system family developed by Microsoft.
- A diminutive of the female given name Winifred.
- A diminutive of the male given name Winston.
- A surname.
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat.
- (transitive, intransitive) To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
- (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
- (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
- (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
- (intransitive) To achieve victory.
- (intransitive) To have power, coercion or control.
- (transitive) To obtain (something desired).
- (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.
- (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
- (transitive, informal) To defeat or surpass someone or something.
- (transitive, Scotland) To dry by exposure to the wind.
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