Win vs Purchase - What's the difference?

Win is a related term of purchase.

As nouns the difference between win and purchase

is that win is pleasure; joy; delight or win can be gain; profit; income while purchase is (obsolete) the act or process of seeking and obtaining something (eg property, etc).

As verbs the difference between win and purchase

is that win is to conquer, defeat while purchase is to pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

win

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

Pleasure; joy; delight.

Derived terms

* (l)

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

Verb

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

*1998 , Rhapsody, Emerald Sword

*:For the glory, the power to win the Black Lord, I will search for the Emerald Sword.

(label) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).

(label) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.

(label) To obtain (someone) by wooing.

*Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)

*:Thy virtue won me; with virtue preserve me.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:She is a woman; therefore to be won .

(label) To achieve victory.

(label) To obtain (something desired).

(label) To cause a victory for someone.

To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:Even in the porch he him did win .

*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

*:And when the stony path began, / By which the naked peak they won , / Up flew the snowy ptarmigan.

To extract (ore, coal, etc.).

:(Raymond)

Derived terms

* play to win * win friends * win up

Etymology 3

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

gain; profit; income

wealth; owndom; goods

an individual victory (opposite of a loss)

Our first win of the season put us in high spirits.

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(slang) a feat, an (extraordinary) achievement (opposite of a fail)

Derived terms

* winning * winnings * winner * for the win * you win * win back * win through * win round * win out * win over * win-win English irregular verbs English three-letter words 1000 English basic words ----

purchase

English

Noun

(obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)

* Beaumont and Fletcher

I'll get meat to have thee, / Or lose my life in the purchase .

An individual item one has purchased.

The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.

They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink.

That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.

That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.

He was pleased with his latest purchase .

(uncountable) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.

It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.

The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.

(rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.

(legal, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.

(Blackstone)

Derived terms

* purchase order * repurchase

Verb

(purchas)

To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

* Spenser

that loves the thing he cannot purchase

* Shakespeare

Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.

* Shakespeare

His faults hereditary / Rather than purchased .

To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.

to purchase''' land'', ''to '''purchase a house

To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.

to purchase favor with flattery

* Shakespeare

One poor retiring minute / Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.

To expiate by a fine or forfeit.

* Shakespeare

Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.

To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase' upon, or apply a ' purchase to.

to purchase a cannon

To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.

* Ld. Berners

Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.

To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.

''Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution

Synonyms

* (buy) procure

Derived terms

* purchable * purchasing agent * purchasing power