Prest vs Preso - What's the difference?

prest | preso |

As nouns the difference between prest and preso

is that prest is (rare) a payment of wages in advance while preso is prison.

As a verb prest

is (archaic) (press) or prest can be (obsolete|transitive) to give as a loan; to lend.

As an adjective prest

is (obsolete) ready; prompt; prepared.

prest

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (press)

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Etymology 2

(etyl) prest

Noun

(en noun)

(rare) A payment of wages in advance

A loan or advance (of money)

* Francis Bacon

Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks.

A tax or duty

(obsolete) A sum of money paid to a soldier or sailor upon enlistment

(legal) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.

(Cowell)

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To give as a loan; to lend.

* E. Hall

Sums of money prested out in loan.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Ready; prompt; prepared.

* R. of Gloucester

All prest to such battle he was.

(obsolete) Neat; tidy; proper.

(Tusser)

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preso

English

Noun

(en noun)

presentation.

* 1999 August 30, Eric Krock, “CodeStock E1 speakers: coordinating Gecko/JS embedding presentations”, netscape.public.mozilla.embedding, Usenet

We need to provide a pause of "down time" after each preso for the streaming team to save the captured video to disk before beginning the next presentation.

* 2003 August, J. D. Richard, Oh, Crapper! , page 245, Xlibris Corporation

“Now that I've finished Russ's preso , neither do I!”

* 2005 March 11, Carey Matthew Black, “AR System Presentation”, Remedy ARS, Google Groups

Sorry no formal preso for you, but the first point is a real killer in my book.

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