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Price vs Trice - What's the difference?

price | trice |

As nouns the difference between price and trice

is that price is the cost required to gain possession of something while trice is a roller; windlass.

As verbs the difference between price and trice

is that price is to determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on while trice is to pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.

As a proper noun Price

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As a phrase PRICE

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

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

    trice

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tryse, tryys, probably of (etyl) origin; compare Swedish . More at (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A roller; windlass.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) tryse, in the phrase , later also in the phrases at a trice'', ''with a trice'', ''on a trice'', ''in a trice ; ultimately from the verb. See below.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A very short time; an instant; a moment; – now used only in the phrase in a trice .
  • * 1623 , William Shakespeare, King Lear , Crown Publishers, Inc. (1975), page 975,
    • This is most strange, that she, who even but now was your best object...most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle so many folds of favor.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1907 , title=(The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses) , author=Robert W. Service , chapter=(The Cremation of Sam McGee) , passage=Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."}}
  • * 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 22. p. 220.
  • *:And in a trice he has clambered onto the kitchen dresser and is reaching for the top shelf.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) trisen, trycen, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Verb

    (tric)
  • To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.
  • * Chaucer
    • Out of his seat I will him trice .
  • (nautical) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.

    • Anagrams

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