Prospective vs Pote - What's the difference?
prospective | pote |
Likely or expected to happen or become.
Anticipated in the near or far future.
Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
* Milton
Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
* Sir J. Child
(obsolete) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
(obsolete) A perspective glass.
(informal, often plural) A (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.
* 2006 , Verve: The Spirit of Today's Woman , volume 14, issues 4-6, page 114:
(obsolete) To push, thrust.
To poke (with a stick etc.).
(obsolete) An animal's paw's fur or the animal's paw itself.
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, year= 1398
, year_published= 1898
, author= James Hamilton Wylie
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, title= History of England under Henry the Fourth
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, chapter= Appendix A: Duchy of Lancaster Records
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, publisher= Longmans, Green, and Co.
, location= London
, editor=
, volume= 4
, page= 173
, passage= Fur Potes de Calabr'.
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, year= 1420
, year_published= 1943
, author= City of London (England). Corporation
, by=
, title= Calendar of Plea and Memoranda Rolls Preserved Among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guild-hall
, url= http://books.google.com/books?ei=uGCBUZSnGIP30gHQ54HwAg&id=FmcOAQAAIAAJ&q=calabre
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, isbn=
, edition=
, publisher= The University Press
, location=
, editor=
, volume= 1413-1437
, page= 75
, passage= One gown of blue'' colour furred with ''potes'' of ''calabre , 28
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* {{quote-book
, year= 1481
, year_published= 1893
, author= William Carton
, by=
, title= Godeffroy of Boloyne; or, The siege and conqueste of Jerusalem
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, original=
, chapter= 68: Godfrey is wounded by a Bear.
, section =
, isbn=
, edition=
, publisher= Published for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
, location= London
, editor= Mary Noyes Colvin, PhD.
, volume=
, page= 113
, passage= ... the beeste ... embraced hym with his potes , or feet to fore, ...
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, year= 1497
, year_published= 1993
, author=
, by=
, title= St. Albans Wills 1471-1500
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, original=
, chapter= Will of R. Burton
, section =
, isbn=
, edition=
, publisher= Hertfordshire Record Society
, location=
, editor= Susan Flood
, volume=
, page= 141
, passage= My wife's blewe gowne engrayned furred with powtes .
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, year= 1612
, year_published= 1867
, author= Andrew Halyburton
, by=
, title= Ledger of Andrew Halyburton 1492-1503
, url= http://books.google.com/books?id=OKMUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA306
, original=
, chapter= On Imports
, section = Book of Customs and Valuation of Merchandises, Anno. 1612
, isbn=
, edition=
, publisher=
, location= Edinburg, Scotland
, editor=
, volume=
, page= 306
, passage= Foynes—backes the dozen ... tailes the pane or mantle ... powtes the hundreth
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As an adjective prospective
is likely or expected to happen or become.As a noun prospective
is (obsolete) the scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.As a verb pote is
.prospective
English
Adjective
(-)- Prospective students are those who have already applied to the university, but have yet to be admitted.
- Time's long and dark prospective glass.
- The French king and king of Sweden are circumspect, industrious, and prospective , too, in this affair.
Noun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- Would you like to show the prospective around?
- I'm meeting the prospectives at 3.
- At the moment, meeting interesting, 'could be, maybe not' prospectives around the globe keeps her entertained.