Prana vs Prank - What's the difference?
prana | prank |
(Hinduism, yoga) Respiration, breathing, seen as a life principle or life force.
* 1919': He it is who sends the (in-coming) '''Prana (life-breath) upward and throws the (out-going) breath downward. — ''The Upanishads translated by Swami Paramananda, 1919
* 1919': He who knows Aditi, who rises with '''Prana (the Life Principle), existent in all the Devas — ''The Upanishads translated by Swami Paramananda, 1919
* 1919': May my limbs, speech, '''Prana (life-force), sight, hearing, strength and all my senses, gain in vigor. — ''The Upanishads translated by Swami Paramananda, 1919
(obsolete) An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.
*, II.4.2.ii:
A practical joke or mischievous trick.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Raleigh
To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.
* Spenser
* 1748 , , B:II
* 1880 , For Spring, by Sandro Botticelli , lines 2–3
To make ostentatious show.
* M. Arnold
To perform a practical joke on; to trick.
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(slang) To call someone's phone and promptly hang up
(obsolete) Full of gambols or tricks.
(Webster 1913)
English transitive verbs
As nouns the difference between prana and prank
is that prana is respiration, breathing, seen as a life principle or life force while prank is an evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.As a verb prank is
to adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.As an adjective prank is
full of gambols or tricks.prana
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l) ----prank
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hercules, after all his mad pranks upon his wife and children, was perfectly cured by a purge of hellebor, which an Antieyrian administered unto him.
- His pranks have been too broad to bear with.
- The harpies played their accustomed pranks .
- Pranks may be funny, but remember that some people are aggressive.
- He pulled a gruesome prank on his sister.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* prankish * pranksome * pranksterVerb
- In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank .
- And there a Sea?on atween June and May,
- Half prankt with Spring, with Summer half imbrown'd,
- A li?tle?s Climate made, where, Sooth to ?ay,
- No living Wight could work, ne cared even for Play.
- ''Flora, wanton-eyed
- ''For birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied:
- White houses prank where once were huts.
citation
- Hey man, prank me when you wanna get picked up.
- I don't have your number in my phone, can you prank me?
