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Prise vs Peise - What's the difference?

prise | peise |

As verbs the difference between prise and peise

is that prise is while peise is to weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.

As an adjective prise

is priced.

As a noun peise is

a weight; a poise.

prise

English

Alternative forms

* (verb) prize

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) An enterprise.
    • (Spenser)

    • See also

    * price

    Verb

    (pris)
  • To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
    • 1919: I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked. — , The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
    c. 1925: Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart! — Jack Lindsay, translation of Lysistrata
    2004: Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products. — BBC News

    Anagrams

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    peise

    English

    Verb

  • To weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.
  • (figuratively) To weigh or take the measure of (an immaterial object).

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A weight; a poise.
  • (obsolete) A heavy blow, an impact.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
  • *:Great Ptolomæe it for his lemans sake / Ybuilded all of glasse, by Magicke powre, / And also it impregnable did make; / Yet when his loue was false, he with a peaze it brake.

    • Quotations

    * "To weigh pence with a peise." -

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary *