Win or lose

Definition

win /wÇn/ v ( -nn- ; pt, pp won /wʌn/ ) ၁။ အႏိုင္ရသည္။ ႏိုင္သည္။ Which team won? ❍ The Miami Dolphins are sure to win/ are the favourites to win. ❍ France won by six goals to two. ❍ win a bet/ wager ❍ win a war/ championship/ tournament/ election ❍ win an argument. ၂။ ~ sth (from sb) ဆုရသည္။ မဲေပါက္သည္။ ေအာင္ႏိုင္သည္။ She won first prize/ a holiday (in the lottery). ❍ You've won yourself a trip to America. ❍ The Conservatives won the seat (ie in Parliament) from Labour at the last election. ၃။ (က) ႀကိဳးပမ္းရရိွသည္။ win the right to vote ❍ They are trying to win support/ approval for their proposal. ❍ The President has failed to win an overall majority. (ခ) ~ sth for sb/ sth ေအာင္ျမင္မႈရေစသည္။ Her performance won her much critical acclaim. n အႏိုင္ရျခင္း။ ေအာင္ျမင္မႈ။ ေအာင္ပြဲ။ It's their first defeat after ten successive wins. Compare LOSS ❏ you, one, etc can't win [ IDM ] ( infml ) လူ႕အလို နတ္ မလိုက္ႏိုင္။ If I don't send her flowers she says ‘ You never send me flowers’, and if I do she says ‘What are you feeling guilty about?’ I just can't win! ❏ win sth/ sb back [ PHRV ] ျပန္လည္ရရိွသည္။ The party must try to win back the support it has lost. ❍ He hoped to win her love back. ❏ win (sth) hands down [ IDM ] ( infml ) အလြယ္ႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ သည္။ အျပတ္အသတ္ ႏိုင္သည္။ The local team won (the match) hands down. ❏ winner n ၁။ ႏိုင္သူ။ ဆုရသူ။ ေအာင္ပန္းဆြတ္သူ။ the five lucky winners of our competition ❍ a Nobel prize winner ❍ The winner was presented with a trophy. ❍ It's difficult to pick a winner from so many excellent runners. Compare LOSER ၂။ ( infml ) ေပါက္ေျမာက္ ေအာင္ျမင္သည့္အရာ၊ သူ။ Their latest model is certain to be a winner. ❏ winning adj ၁။ အႏိုင္ရေသာ။ ဆုရေသာ။ the winning horse/ number/ ticket. ၂။ ႏွစ္လို႔ဖြယ္။ a winning smile ❍ winning ways. ❏ winning-post n ( esp Brit ) ပန္းတိုင္။ Your horse was first past the winning-post. ❏ winnings /'wÇnÇŋz/ n [pl] ေလာင္းကစား၍ွ ႏိုင္ေသာေငြ။ အႏိုင္။ collect one's winnings ❍ This prize has taken his winnings this year to over $350 000. ❏ win or lose [ IDM ] ႏိုင္ႏိုင္႐ံႈး႐ံႈး။ Win or lose, it should be a very good match. ❏ win out/ through [ PHRV ] ( infml ) (အခက္အခဲကို) ေက်ာ္ျဖတ္ေအာင္ႏိုင္သည္။ It's not going to be easy but I'm sure we'll win through in the end. ❏ win sb over/ round (to sth) [ PHRV ] မိမိဘက္ ပါလာ ေအာင္ သိမ္းသြင္းႏိုင္သည္၊ စည္း႐ံုးႏိုင္သည္။ She's against the idea, but I'm sure I can win her over. ❏ win one's spurs [ IDM ] ( fml ) ထူးထူးျခားျခား ေအာင္ျမင္ သည္။ နာမည္ႀကီးသြားသည္။

Examples

1. Every time we play tennis
2. she wins.
3. Who won the race?
4. The 1970 elections were won by a coalition led by Allende.
5. Celtic must win by three goals to reach the semifinals.
6. No matter who wins the war
7. there will be heavy casualties on both sides.
8. Why is it that whenever we argue
9. you always win?
10. Our skiing team won a gold medal at the Olympics.
11. Raoul won first prize in a spelling contest.
12. He won £4
13. 000 in the lottery last week.
14. We’ve won a £3 million contract to build the new bridge.
15. The city has won the right to host the Games.
16. [win support/approval] : The bill is winning a lot of support from farmers.
17. [win someone’s love/heart] : He was never able to win her love.
18. His athletic ability won him a scholarship to a good university.