different between bag vs prize

English

Etymology

From Middle English bagge, borrowed from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”), related to Old Norse b?ggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *b?ak- (compare Welsh baich (“load, bundle”), Ancient Greek ???????? (bástagma, “load”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?g, IPA^(key): /?bæ?/
• (Southern England, Australia) IPA^(key): /?bæ??/
• (US, some dialects) IPA^(key): /?b??/
• (US, Upper Midwest) IPA^(key): /?be??/,
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

bag (plural bags)

1. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) poke, sack, tote

   Hyponym: bindle

2. (informal) A handbag

   Synonyms: handbag, (US) purse

3. A suitcase.
4. A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
5. (slang) One’s preference.

   Synonyms: cup of tea, thing; see also Thesaurus:predilection

6. (derogatory) An ugly woman.

   Synonyms: dog, hag

7. (LGBT, slang, US, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
8. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

9. (baseball) First, second, or third base.

10. (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
11. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

    Synonym: multiset
12. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

13. (now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
    • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 54:

      [H]e had once lost his bag, and a considerable quantity of hair, which had been cut off by some rascal in his passage through Ludgate, during the lord mayor's procession.

    • 1774, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 1 December:

      He had on a suit of Manchester velvet, Lined with white satten, a Bag, lace Ruffles, and a very handsome sword which the King had given to him.

14. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
15. (slang, vulgar) A scrotum.
16. (Britain) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
17. (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
18. (slang) A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
19. (MLE, slang) £1000, a grand.
20. (informal) A large number or amount.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Korean: ? (baek)
• Norwegian: bag

Translations

Verb

bag (third-person singular simple present bags, present participle bagging, simple past and past participle bagged)

1. To put into a bag.
2. to take with oneself, to assume into one’s score
   1. (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
   2. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
   3. (slang, African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
   4. (slang, MLE) To end the being at large of someone, to deprive of somone’s corporeal freedom in the course of a criminal procedure.

      Synonym: nick
3. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.

   • a bee bagged with his honeyed venom

   1. (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
   2. (transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
      • 1985, Sol S. Zimmerman, Joan Holter Gildea, Critical Care Pediatrics (page 205)

        The patient was bagged for a urine analysis and stat electrolytes were drawn.

4. to expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
   1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.

   2. To hang like an empty bag.
      • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 3,^[1]

        [...] he was dressed in a badly fitting white drill suit, with trousers bagging concertina-like over clumsy black boots.

      • 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island, London: Review, Chapter Eleven, p. 125,^[2]

        And this uniform did not even fit me so well. But what is a little bagging on the waist and tightness under the arm when you are a gallant member of the British Royal Air Force?

   3. (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
   4. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Warner. (Alb. Eng.) to this entry?)

5. to show particular puffy emotion
   1. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

   2. (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
   3. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• -gab-, ABG, AGB, BGA, GAB, GBA, Gab, gab, gab-

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French bague.

Noun

bag

1. ring

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• bagu

Etymology

Either of substratum origin or from a Vulgar Latin *beg?, from Late Latin b?g?, from Latin b?ga. Less likely from Greek ???? (vázo, “put in, set on”). May have originally referred to putting animals under a yoke. Compare Romanian b?ga, bag.

Verb

bag (past participle bãgatã or bãgate)

1. I put, place, apply.

Related terms

• bãgari / bãgare
• bãgat
• nibãgat

See also

• pun

Breton

Etymology

Probably tied to Old French bac (“flat boat”), itself of obscure origin.

Noun

bag f

1. boat

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bak n (“back”), from Proto-Germanic *bak?, cognate with Norwegian bak, Swedish bak, English back. The preposition is a shortening of Old Norse á bak (“on the back of”), compare English back from aback, from Old English onbæc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba???/, [?b?æ?j], [?b?æ?], (as a preposition or adverb always) IPA^(key): [?b?æ?]

Noun

bag c (singular definite bagen, plural indefinite bage)

1. (anatomy) behind, bottom, butt, buttocks
2. seat (part of clothing)

Inflection

Synonyms

• (behind): bagdel, ende, røv (informal)
• (seat): buksebag

Preposition

bag

1. behind

Adverb

bag

1. behind

Etymology 2

From the verb to bake

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba???/, [?b?æ?j], [?b?æ?]

Noun

bag n (singular definite baget, plural indefinite bage)

1. (rare) pastry

   Synonym: bagværk

Inflection

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba???/, [?b?æ?j], [?b?æ?]

Verb

bag

1. imperative of bage

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bague (“ring”).

Noun

bag

1. ring

Meriam

Noun

bag

1. cheek

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• bagg

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ?/

Noun

bag m (definite singular bagen, indefinite plural bager, definite plural bagene)

1. A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.
2. (on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.

References

• “bag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bagg

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi. Doublet of bagge.

Noun

bag m (definite singular bagen, indefinite plural bagar, definite plural bagane)

1. A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.
2. (on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.

References

• “bag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• b?ch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”) Cognate to Old English b?ag

Noun

b?g m

1. a ring

Inflection

Rohingya

Etymology

From Magadhi Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit ??????? (vy?ghra).

Noun

bag

1. tiger

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ba?]

Verb

bag

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of b?ga

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

Noun

bag c

1. A kind of large bag; a duffel bag

Declension

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From Meriam bag.

Noun

bag

1. (anatomy, eastern dialect) cheek

Synonyms

• masa (western dialect)

Turkmen

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bag (definite accusative bagy, plural baglar)

1. garden

Welsh

Etymology

From English bag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/

Noun

bag m (plural bagiau)

1. bag

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “bag”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /pa?k?/
• Tone numbers: bag⁸
• Hyphenation: bag

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From Proto-Tai *bra:kD?”)

Verb

bag (Sawndip forms ???? or ? or ? or ? or ???? or ???? or ? or ???? or ???? or ??? or ???? or ???? or ??? or ?, old orthography bag)

1. to chop; to split
2. (of lightning) to strike
3. to dive; to swoop down
4. to divide
5. to cut across

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bag (Sawndip forms ???? or ??? or ? or ?, old orthography bag)

1. mental illness

Adjective

bag (Sawndip forms ???? or ??? or ? or ?, old orthography bag)

1. crazy; mad; insane

   Synonym: vangh

Descendants

• mabag

Verb

bag (Sawndip forms ???? or ??? or ? or ?, old orthography bag)

1. to become crazy; to go mad; to go nuts

   Synonym: vangh

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English prise, from Old French prise (“a taking, capture, a seizure, a thing seized, a prize, booty, also hold, purchase”), past participle of prendre (“to take, to capture”), from Latin prendere (“to take, seize”); see prehend. Compare prison, apprise, comprise, enterprise, purprise, reprisal, surprise, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?a?z/
• • Rhymes: -a?z
• Homophones: pries, prise

Noun

prize (plural prizes)

1. That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 4, Canto 4, p. 54,^[1]

     […] wherefore he now begunne

     To challenge her anew, as his owne prize,

     Whom formerly he had in battell wonne,

2. (military, nautical) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
3. An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
   • 1676, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, London: Henry Herringman, Act 5, p. 73,^[2]

     I fought and conquer’d, yet have lost the prize.

4. That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
   • 1928, Weston Jarvis, Jottings from an Active Life, London: Heath Cranton, p. 256,^[3]

     Cecil Rhodes […] was never tired of impressing upon one that the fact of being an Englishman was “the greatest prize in the lottery of life,” and that it was that thought which always sustained him when he was troubled.

5. Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Philippians 3.14,^[4]

     I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

6. (obsolete) A contest for a reward; competition.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2,^[5]

     Like one of two contending in a prize,

     That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes […]

7. A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.

   Synonym: prise

Usage notes

Do not confuse with price.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• prise
• price

Etymology 2

From Middle English prysen, borrowed from Old French priser (“to set a price or value on, esteem, value”), from pris (“price”), from Latin pretium (“price, value”), whence price; see also praise, a doublet. Compare appraise, apprize.

Verb

prize (third-person singular simple present prizes, present participle prizing, simple past and past participle prized)

1. To consider highly valuable; to esteem.
   • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, Scene 1,^[6]

     […] I

     Beyond all limit of what else i’ the world

     Do love, prize, honour you.

   • 1676, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, London: Henry Herringman, Act V, p. 83,^[7]

     I pris’d your Person, but your Crown disdain.

   • 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus, London: Harvill Secker, Chapter 20, p. 167,^[8]

     ‘ […] An old broken cup has no value. No one prizes it.’

     ‘I prize it. It’s my museum, not yours.’

2. (obsolete) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
   • c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act III, Scene 2,^[9]

     […] no life,

     I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour,

   • 1611 King James Version of the Bible, Zechariah 11.13,^[10]

     […] a goodly price that I was prized at.

3. To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.
4. (obsolete) To compete in a prizefight.

Derived terms

• foreprize
• outprize
• overprize
• prizable
• prizer
• underprize
• unprizable
• unprized

Translations

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

prize (not comparable)

1. Having won a prize; award-winning.

   a prize vegetable

2. first-rate; exceptional

   He was a prize fool.

Etymology 4

Alternative forms.

Noun

prize (plural prizes)

1. Obsolete form of price. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1777, Joshua Reynolds, in John Ingamells, John Edgcumbe (eds.), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale 2000, p. 69:

     My prizes – for a head is thirty five Guineas – As far as the Knees seventy – and for a whole-length one hundred and fifty.

Further reading

• prize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• prize in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• pizer, rezip