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Prod vs Prog - What's the difference?

prod | prog |

As verbs the difference between prod and prog

is that prod is to poke, to push, to touch while prog is to wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek advantage by mean tricks.

As nouns the difference between prod and prog

is that prod is a device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving while prog is progressive rock.

As an adjective prog is

abbreviation of progressive.

prod

English

(wikipedia prod)

Verb

(prodd)
  • To poke, to push, to touch.
  • To encourage, to prompt.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Michael Riordan , title=Tackling Infinity , volume=100, issue=1, page=86 , magazine= citation , passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
  • A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
  • A poke.
    • "It's your turn," she reminded me, giving me a prod on the shoulder.
  • A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
    • (Fairholt)

    Derived terms

    * cattle prod

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    prog

    English

    Etymology 1

    Abbreviations.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Abbreviation of progressive.
  • * 2003 , Frank Moriarty, Seventies Rock: The Decade of Creative Chaos
    • Captain Beyond had tentatively dipped their toe in the uncharted American waters of prog rock, but in England, progression was the name of the game, with a host of bands elevating themselves ...

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) Progressive rock
  • (computing, informal) A program.
  • * 2001 , "n.one", transfer progs from comp to comp'' (on newsgroup ''24hoursupport.helpdesk )
  • * 2001', "Yoda", ''How do I get '''progs to run when linux 7.1 starts up?'' (on newsgroup ''linux.redhat )
  • * 2003 , "Leo Edwards", Automating the Windows backup prog to commence backups?'' (on newsgroup ''microsoft.public.win98.apps )
    • I've looked around if I can get the prog to start a backup itself, but it still requires some manual commands.
  • proctor

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

  • (slang, obsolete) Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.
    • (Jonathan Swift)
  • * (Robert Browning)
    • So long as he picked from the filth his prog .
  • (slang, obsolete) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.

    • Verb

    (progg)
  • (obsolete, slang) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek advantage by mean tricks.
  • * Fuller
    • a perfect artist in progging for money
  • * Burke
    • I have been endeavouring to prog for you.
  • (obsolete, slang) To steal; to rob; to filch.
    • (Johnson)
  • (Scotland) To prick; to goad; to progue.
    • (Webster 1913)

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