Trice vs Stance - What's the difference?
trice | stance |
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,
* {{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.
To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.
* Chaucer
(nautical) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.
The manner, posture, or pose in which one stands.
One’s opinion or point of view.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=April 23
, author=Angelique Chrisafis
, title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election
, work=the Guardian
(Scotland) A station; a position; a site; a stopping place for buses at a bus station
(obsolete) A stanza.
As nouns the difference between trice and stance
is that 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 while stance is the manner, posture, or pose in which one stands.As a verb trice
is to pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.trice
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tryse, tryys, probably of (etyl) origin; compare Swedish . More at (l), (l).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)- 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.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) trisen, trycen, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(tric)- Out of his seat I will him trice .
Anagrams
* ----stance
English
(wikipedia stance)Noun
(en noun)- The fencer’s stance showed he was ready to begin.
- I don’t agree with your stance on gun control.
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