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price | frice |

As a noun price

is the cost required to gain possession of something.

As a verb price

is to determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.

As a proper noun Price

is {{surname|Welsh patronymic|from=Welsh}}, anglicized from {{term|ap|lang=cy}} {{term|Rhys|lang=cy}}.

As a phrase PRICE

is protect, rest, ice, compression, and elevation. A common treatment method for sprained joints.

As an adverb frice is

four times.

price

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The cost required to gain possession of something.
  • * Shakespeare
    • We can afford no more at such a price .
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price .}}
  • The cost of an action or deed.
  • Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
    • Her price is far above rubies.
  • * Keble
    • new treasures still, of countless price

    Derived terms

    * list price * pool price * price-conscious * price stability * purchase price * reserve price * selling price * shadow price * spot price * starting price * strike price * upset price

    Verb

    (pric)
  • To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
  • (obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
    • Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
  • (obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
  • (colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
    • to price eggs

    External links

    * * 1000 English basic words

    frice

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (rare, nonstandard, humorous) four times
  • * 1999 , John R Erickson, Gerald L Holmes, Every dog has his day
    • ...not once or twice or thrice or frice , but many times, and always under awkward conditions.
  • * 2001 , Benedict Kelly, The collected stories of Benedict Kiely
    • ...and wince, she says, and twice and thrice and frice and fice and sice and seven-up sits the Star of the County Down...
  • * 2001 , "Joe", Linnell finds the camera!'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.music.tmbg )
    • Three cheers for scratch: Hip hip huzzah! Hip hip huzzah! Hip hip huz-ZAH! Not only do I get to see it now, but I got to say huzzah thrice! Well, I guess now it's frice .
  • * 2001 , "Alan T Gower", Seconds from Disaster'' (on Internet newsgroup ''uk.rec.motorcycles )
    • I've been caught out once or twice or thrice or frice .
    English frequency adverbs