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Prise vs Prose - What's the difference?

prise | prose |

As verbs the difference between prise and prose

is that prise is while prose is to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.

As an adjective prise

is priced.

As a noun prose is

language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.

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

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    prose

    English

    (wikipedia prose)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
  • Though known mostly for her prose , she also produced a small body of excellent poems.
  • * Milton
  • things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme
  • Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
  • (Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.
  • Antonyms

    * poetry, verse

    Derived terms

    * prose poem * purple prose

    Verb

  • to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, Scene II, verses 189-190
  • Pray, do not prose , good Ethelbert, but speak
    What is your purpose?

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