different between win vs occupy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophones: wynn, Nguyen, winne

Etymology 1

From Middle English winnen, from Old English winnan (“to labour, swink, toil, trouble oneself; resist, oppose, contradict; fight, strive, struggle, rage; endure”) (compare Old English ?ewinnan (“conquer, obtain, gain; endure, bear, suffer; be ill”)), from Proto-Germanic *winnan? (“to swink, labour, win, gain, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”). Cognate with Low German winnen, Dutch winnen, German gewinnen, Norwegian Bokmål vinne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish vinna.

Verb

win (third-person singular simple present wins, present participle winning, simple past and past participle won or (obsolete) wan)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book IV:

     For and we doo bataille we two wyl fyghte with one kny?t at ones / and therfore yf ye wille fyghte soo we wille be redy at what houre ye wille assigne / And yf ye wynne vs in bataille the lady shal haue her landes ageyne / ye say wel sayd sir Vwayne / therfor make yow redy so that ye be here to morne in the defence of the ladyes ryght
2. (transitive, intransitive) To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
   • c. 17th century, unknown author, The Baron of Brackley (traditional folk song)

     I well may gang out, love, but I'll never win home.
3. (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
4. (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.

5. (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
   • 1589, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

     Thy virtue won me; with virtue preserve me.

   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Scene 3

     She is a woman; therefore to be won.
6. (intransitive) To achieve victory.

7. (intransitive) To have power, coercion or control.

8. (transitive) To obtain (something desired).

9. (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.

10. (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English winn, winne, from Old English winn (“toil, labor, trouble, hardship; profit, gain; conflict, strife, war”), from Proto-Germanic *winn? (“labour, struggle, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to strive, desire, wish, love”). Cognate with German Gewinn (“profit, gain”), Dutch gewin (“profit, gain”).

Noun

win (plural wins)

1. An individual victory.

   Antonym: loss

   Our first win of the season put us in high spirits.
2. (slang) A feat carried out successfully; a victorious achievement.

   Antonym: fail

3. (obsolete) Gain; profit; income.
4. (obsolete) Wealth; goods owned.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Middle English wynne, winne, wunne, from Old English wynn (“joy, rapture, pleasure, delight, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnju, from Proto-Germanic *wunj? (“joy, delight, pleasure, lust”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”).

Cognate with German Wonne (“bliss, joy, delight”), archaic Dutch wonne (“joy”), Danish ynde (“grace”), Icelandic yndi (“delight”).

Noun

win (plural wins)

1. (Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.

Derived terms

• worldly win

Etymology 4

From wind.

Verb

win

1. (transitive, Scotland) To dry by exposure to the wind.

References

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English win.

Noun

win

1. win
2. victory
3. prize

Verb

win

1. to win

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?n
• IPA^(key): /??n/

Verb

win

1. first-person singular present indicative of winnen
2. imperative of winnen

Kis

Noun

win

1. woman

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

win (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of wynne (“happiness”)

Etymology 2

From Old English winn, from Proto-West Germanic *winnan, from Proto-Germanic *winn?, *winnan?; akin to winnen. Reinforced by earlier iwin, from Old English ?ewinn.

Alternative forms

• winn, winne, wynne, wunne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /win/

Noun

win (uncountable)

1. benefit, gain, profit
2. (Late Middle English) wealth, riches
3. (Early Middle English) discord, conflict, turmoil
4. (Early Middle English, rare) exertion, work

Descendants

• English: win

References

• “win, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2020.

Etymology 3

Verb

win

1. Alternative form of winnen (“to win”)

Etymology 4

Noun

win

1. Alternative form of vine (“grapevine”)

North Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?n/

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz.

Noun

win m

1. (Mooring) wind

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian w?n, from Proto-West Germanic *w?n, from Latin v?num.

Noun

win m

1. (Mooring) wine

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *w?n, from Latin v?num.

Noun

w?n m

1. wine

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: wijn
  • Dutch: wijn
    • Afrikaans: wyn
  • Limburgish: wien

Further reading

• “w?n”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *w?n from Latin v?num.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?n/
• Homophone: wynn

Noun

w?n n

1. wine

Declension

Derived terms

• æppelw?n
• w?ntr?ow

Descendants

• Middle English: wyn, win, wine, wyne, wijn, vine, vyn, vyne, wyen, weyn, wynne
  • English: wine (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: wyne

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?in/

Noun

win f

1. genitive plural of wina

Noun

win n

1. genitive plural of wino

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English wind.

Noun

win

1. wind

Related terms

• winim

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English wind.

Noun

win

1. wind

Derived terms

• big win

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?n/

Noun

win

1. Soft mutation of gwin.

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English occupien, occupyen, borrowed from Old French occuper, from Latin occup?re (“to take possession of, seize, occupy, take up, employ”), from ob (“to, on”) + capi? (“to take”). Doublet of occupate, now obsolete.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??kj?pa?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??kj?pa?/
• Hyphenation: oc?cu?py

Verb

occupy (third-person singular simple present occupies, present participle occupying, simple past and past participle occupied)

1. (transitive, of time) To take or use.
   1. To fill.
   2. To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.

   3. To fill or hold (an official position or role).

   4. To hold the attention of.

2. (transitive) To take or use space.
   1. To fill space.

   2. To live or reside in.

      • The better apartments were already occupied.
   3. (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
      • 1940, in The China monthly review, volumes 94-95, page 370 [1]:

        The Japanese can occupy but cannot hold, and what they can hold they cannot hold long, was the opinion of General Pai Chung-hsi, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army, […]

      • 1975, Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford, King Charles and King Pym, 1637-1643, page 330 [2]:

        Rupert, with his usual untamable energy, was scouring the country — but at first in the wrong direction, that of Aylesbury, another keypoint in the outer ring of Oxford defences, which he occupied but could not hold.

      • 1983, Arthur Keppel-Jones, Rhodes and Rhodesia: The White Conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884-1902, page 462:

        One of the rebel marksmen, who had taken up position on a boulder, was knocked off it by the recoil of his weapon every time he fired. Again the attack achieved nothing. Positions were occupied, but could not be held.

      • 1991, Werner Spies, John William Gabriel, Max Ernst collages: the invention of the surrealist universe, page 333:

        Germany occupied France for three years while France struggled to make payments that were a condition of surrender.

      • 2006, John Michael Francis, Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, page 496:

        Spain occupied, but could not populate, and its failure to expand Florida led Britain to consider the peninsula a logical extension of its colonial holdings.

   4. (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
3. (transitive, obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • 1590s, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, II.iv

     God's light, these villains will make the word as odious as the word 'occupy;' which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted

   • 1867, Robert Nares A Glossary

     OCCUPY, [sensu obsc.] To possess, or enjoy.

     These villains will make the word captain, as odious as the word occupy. 2 Hen. IV, ii, 4.

     Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand

     For 's whore; Groyne still doth occupy his land. B. Jons. Epigr., 117.

     Many, out of their own obscene apprehensions, refuse proper and fit words, as occupy, nature, and the like. Ibid., Discoveries, vol. vii, p. 119.

     It is so used also in Rowley's New Wonder, Anc. Dr., v, 278.

4. (obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.

   • All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.

   • 1551, Ralph Robinson (tr.), Sir Thomas More's Utopia (in Latin), 1516

     not able to occupy their old crafts

5. (obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.

   • all the gold that was occupied for the work

   • 1551, Ralph Robinson (tr.), Sir Thomas More's Utopia (in Latin), 1516

     They occupy not money themselves.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to possess or use the time or capacity of): employ, busy
• (to have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Derived terms

• occupier

Related terms

• occupant
• occupation

Translations

See also

• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

References

• occupy at OneLook Dictionary Search
• occupy in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• occupy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• occupy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.