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Tribe vs Trice - What's the difference?

tribe | trice |

As nouns the difference between tribe and trice

is that tribe is a socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people while trice is a roller; windlass or trice can be a very short time; an instant; a moment; – now used only in the phrase in a trice .

As verbs the difference between tribe and trice

is that tribe is to distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize while trice is to pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.

tribe

English

(wikipedia tribe)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people.
  • (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
  • The collective noun for various animals.
  • (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
  • (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
    • the Duchess tribe of shorthorns

    Derived terms

    * tribal * tribelet

    See also

    * ethnic *

    Verb

    (trib)
  • To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
  • * Archbishop Nicolson
    • Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed .

    Anagrams

    * English collective nouns

    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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