Prey vs Prize - What's the difference?
prey | prize | Synonyms |
(archaic) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.
* Bible, Numbers xxxi. 12
That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
* Dryden
* Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.
* Bible, Job iv. ii
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, title= The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
* Shakespeare
The victim of a disease.
That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
* Spenser
(military, nautical) 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.
* Dryden
That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
* Bible, Phil. iii. 14
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.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(obsolete) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
* Bible, Zech. xi. 13
* Shakespeare
To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.
(obsolete) To compete in a prizefight.
Prey is a synonym of prize.
As nouns the difference between prey and prize
is that prey is (archaic) anything, as goods, etc, taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder while prize is that which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.As a verb prize is
to consider highly valuable; to esteem.prey
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Noun
- And they brought the captives, and the prey , and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest.
- Already sees herself the monster's prey .
- [The helmsman] steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk
- The old lion perisheth for lack of prey .
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
- Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, lion in prey .
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(wikipedia prize)Etymology 1
From (etyl) prise, from (etyl) ; see prehend. Compare prison, apprise, comprise, enterprise, purprise, reprisal, suprise, etc.Noun
(en noun)- His own prize , / Whom formerly he had in battle won.
- I fought and conquered, yet have lost the prize .
- I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* booby prize * consolation prize * door prize * prizewinner, prize winner * prize-winning * pushing prizeUsage notes
Do not confuse with .See also
* prise * priceEtymology 2
From (etyl) prysen, from (etyl) ; see price. Compare praise, appraise, apprize.Verb
(priz)- [I] do love, prize , honour you.
- I prized your person, but your crown disdain.
- A goodly price that I was prized at.
- I prize it [life] not a straw, but for mine honour.