Choice vs. Prize

An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.

Example: ‘Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?’;

(uncountable) The power to choose.

Example: ‘She didn't leave us much choice.’;

One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.

Example: ‘The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.’;

Anything that can be chosen.

Example: ‘You have three choices: vanilla, strawberry or chocolate’;

The best or most preferable part.

(obsolete) Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.

(obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.

Especially good or preferred.

Example: ‘It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.’;

Cool; excellent.

Example: ‘Choice! I'm going to the movies.’;

(obsolete) Careful in choosing; discriminating.

Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.

The power or opportunity of choosing; option.

Example: ‘Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take be so in our power that we might have refused it.’;

Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.

Example: ‘I imagine they [the apothegms of Cæsar] were collected with judgment and choice.’;

A sufficient number to choose among.

The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.

Example: ‘The common wealth is sick of their own choice.’;

The best part; that which is preferable.

Example: ‘The flower and choiceOf many provinces from bound to bound.’;

Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.

Example: ‘My choicest hours of life are lost.’;

Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; - used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.

Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.

Example: ‘Choice word measured phrase.’;

the person or thing chosen or selected;

Example: ‘he was my pick for mayor’;

the act of choosing or selecting;

Example: ‘your choice of colors was unfortunate’; ‘you can take your pick’;

one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen;

Example: ‘what option did I have?’; ‘there no other alternative’; ‘my only choice is to refuse’;

of superior grade;

Example: ‘choice wines’; ‘prime beef’; ‘prize carnations’; ‘quality paper’; ‘select peaches’;

appealing to refined taste;

Example: ‘choice wine’;

an act of choosing between two or more possibilities

Example: ‘the choice between good and evil’;

the right or ability to choose

Example: ‘I had to do it, I had no choice’;

a range of possibilities from which one or more may be chosen

Example: ‘you can have a sofa made in a choice of forty fabrics’;

a thing or person which is chosen

Example: ‘this disk drive is the perfect choice for your computer’;

(especially of food) of very good quality

Example: ‘he picked some choice early plums’;

(of words or language) rude and abusive

Example: ‘he had a few choice words at his command’;

A choice is the range of different things from which you can choose. The arrival at a choice may incorporate motivators and models.

That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.

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.

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.

That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.

Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.

(obsolete) A contest for a reward; competition.

A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever. Also spelled prise.

To consider highly valuable; to esteem.

(obsolete) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.

To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.

(obsolete) To compete in a prizefight.

That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.

Example: ‘I will depart my pris, or my prey, by deliberation.’; ‘His own prize,Whom formerly he had in battle won.’;

Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.

Example: ‘I'll never wrestle for prize more.’; ‘I fought and conquered, yet have lost the prize.’;

That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.

Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.

Example: ‘I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.’;

A contest for a reward; competition.

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

Estimation; valuation.

To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.

To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.

Example: ‘A goodly price that I was prized at.’; ‘I prize it [life] not a straw, but for mine honor.’;

To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.

Example: ‘I prized your person, but your crown disdain.’;

something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery;

Example: ‘the prize was a free trip to Europe’;

goods or money obtained illegally

something given as a token of victory

hold dear;

Example: ‘I prize these old photographs’;

to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open;

Example: ‘The burglar jimmied the lock’; ‘Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail’;

regard highly; think much of;

Example: ‘I respect his judgement’; ‘We prize his creativity’;

of superior grade;

Example: ‘choice wines’; ‘prime beef’; ‘prize carnations’; ‘quality paper’; ‘select peaches’;

A prize is an award to be given to a person, a group of people like a sports team, or organization to recognize and reward actions or achievements. Official prizes often involve monetary rewards as well as the fame that comes with them.