Price vs Trophy - What's the difference?
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The cost required to gain possession of something.
* Shakespeare
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, title= The cost of an action or deed.
Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
* Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
* Keble
To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
(obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
(obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
(colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
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An object, usually in the form of a statuette, cup, or shield, awarded for success in a competition or to mark a special achievement.
An object taken as a prize by a hunter or conqueror, especially one that is displayed.
* Dryden
Any emblem of success; a status symbol.
(criminology, by extension) An object taken by a serial killer or rapist as a memento of the crime.
* 1994 , Philip Jenkins, Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide [http://books.google.com/books?id=nhXmk3Tm-SQC], ISBN 0202305252, page 117:
* 2001 , R. Michael Gordon, Alias Jack the Ripper: Beyond the Usual Whitechapel Suspects [http://books.google.com/books?id=n5PWnVtQs4MC], ISBN 0786408987, page 82:
* 2004 , Ronald F. Becker, Criminal Investigation [http://books.google.com/books?id=YDGaGSdjc6kC], ISBN 0763731684, page 168:
As a phrase price
is (label) protect, rest, ice, compression, and elevation a common treatment method for sprained joints.As a noun trophy is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- We can afford no more at such a price .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price .}}
- Her price is far above rubies.
- new treasures still, of countless price
Derived terms
* list price * pool price * price-conscious * price stability * purchase price * reserve price * selling price * shadow price * spot price * starting price * strike price * upset priceVerb
(pric)- Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
- to price eggs
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English
Noun
(trophies)- He won the trophy in a running competition.
- Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears, / And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars, / And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars.
- The set of antlers which hung on the wall was his prized trophy .
- His trophies included his second wife, his successful children, the third and fourth homes in Palm Beach and Malibu, his three yachts (for the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean), his jet, and his mistresses.
- The souvenirs which many killers retain of their victims are often described as trophies , and Norman Bates's taxidermic interests derived from the real-life Ed Gein.
- A trophy from this murder would have been of great importance.
- The offender is also likely to mentally relive his killings, often with the help of souvenirs or trophies , such as a bracelet or a body part taken from the victim.