"outcompete" meaning in All languages combined

See outcompete on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: outcompetes [present, singular, third-person], outcompeting [participle, present], outcompeted [participle, past], outcompeted [past]
Etymology: From out- + compete. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|out|compete}} out- + compete Head templates: {{en-verb}} outcompete (third-person singular simple present outcompetes, present participle outcompeting, simple past and past participle outcompeted)
  1. To be more successful than a competitor; especially to thrive in the presence of an organism that is competing for resources. Categories (topical): Ecology Synonyms: out-compete Coordinate_terms: overcompete, undercompete Translations (be much more successful than a competitor): udkonkurrere (Danish), auskonkurrieren (German), verdrängen (German)

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "out",
        "3": "compete"
      },
      "expansion": "out- + compete",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From out- + compete.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "outcompetes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "outcompeting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "outcompeted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "outcompeted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "outcompete (third-person singular simple present outcompetes, present participle outcompeting, simple past and past participle outcompeted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with out-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Danish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Ecology",
          "orig": "en:Ecology",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "overcompete"
        },
        {
          "word": "undercompete"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Bill Nye, Corey S. Powell, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation:",
          "text": "It shows the peahens that the peacock is strong. And it shows other males that this peacock can outstrut, outfly, outcourt, and generally outcompete them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 7, Yuval Noah Harari, “At Home With Our Ancient Cousins, the Neanderthals”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "While individual Neanderthals were perhaps as inquisitive, imaginative and creative as individual Sapiens, superior networking enabled Sapiens to swiftly outcompete Neanderthals.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 July 11, Helena Horton, “Oral contraceptives could help reduce grey squirrel numbers, research finds”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Grey squirrels are an invasive species in the UK, introduced from North America in the 1870s. They pose a problem for wildlife including endangered red squirrels, which they outcompete.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be more successful than a competitor; especially to thrive in the presence of an organism that is competing for resources."
      ],
      "id": "en-outcompete-en-verb-jMfTsrlO",
      "links": [
        [
          "successful",
          "successful"
        ],
        [
          "competitor",
          "competitor"
        ],
        [
          "thrive",
          "thrive"
        ],
        [
          "competing",
          "competing"
        ],
        [
          "resource",
          "resource"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "out-compete"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "be much more successful than a competitor",
          "word": "udkonkurrere"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "be much more successful than a competitor",
          "word": "auskonkurrieren"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "be much more successful than a competitor",
          "word": "verdrängen"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "outcompete"
}
{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "overcompete"
    },
    {
      "word": "undercompete"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "out",
        "3": "compete"
      },
      "expansion": "out- + compete",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From out- + compete.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "outcompetes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "outcompeting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "outcompeted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "outcompeted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "outcompete (third-person singular simple present outcompetes, present participle outcompeting, simple past and past participle outcompeted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with out-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "en:Ecology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Bill Nye, Corey S. Powell, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation:",
          "text": "It shows the peahens that the peacock is strong. And it shows other males that this peacock can outstrut, outfly, outcourt, and generally outcompete them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 7, Yuval Noah Harari, “At Home With Our Ancient Cousins, the Neanderthals”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "While individual Neanderthals were perhaps as inquisitive, imaginative and creative as individual Sapiens, superior networking enabled Sapiens to swiftly outcompete Neanderthals.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 July 11, Helena Horton, “Oral contraceptives could help reduce grey squirrel numbers, research finds”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Grey squirrels are an invasive species in the UK, introduced from North America in the 1870s. They pose a problem for wildlife including endangered red squirrels, which they outcompete.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be more successful than a competitor; especially to thrive in the presence of an organism that is competing for resources."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "successful",
          "successful"
        ],
        [
          "competitor",
          "competitor"
        ],
        [
          "thrive",
          "thrive"
        ],
        [
          "competing",
          "competing"
        ],
        [
          "resource",
          "resource"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "out-compete"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "be much more successful than a competitor",
      "word": "udkonkurrere"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "be much more successful than a competitor",
      "word": "auskonkurrieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "be much more successful than a competitor",
      "word": "verdrängen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "outcompete"
}

Download raw JSONL data for outcompete meaning in All languages combined (2.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.