prize

Multiple Entries:
  prize    prise  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prize1

▶noun

• 1 a thing given as a reward to a winner or in recognition of an outstanding achievement.

  ■ something won in a game of chance.

  ■ something of great value that is worth struggling to achieve.

• 2 chiefly historical an enemy ship captured during warfare.

▶adjective

• 1 having been or likely to be awarded a prize.

• 2 outstanding of its kind.

▶verb value highly.

– origin ME: sense 1 of the noun is var. of price, sense 2 of the noun is from OFr. prise ‘taking, booty’; v. is from OFr. pris-, stem of preisier (see praise).

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prize2

▶verb US spelling of prise.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prise /prʌɪz/ (US prize)

▶verb

• 1 use force in order to open or move apart.

• 2 (prise something out of/from) obtain something from (someone) with effort or difficulty.

– origin C17: from dial. prise ‘lever’, from OFr. prise ‘grasp, taking hold’; cf. pry2.