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Trie vs Trice - What's the difference?

trie | trice |

As verbs the difference between trie and trice

is that trie is obsolete spelling of lang=en while trice is to pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.

As nouns the difference between trie and trice

is that trie is an ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings while trice is a roller; windlass.

trie

English

Etymology 1

See try.

Verb

(head)
  • * 1588? , , “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” in Cartwrightiana , ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin), page 228
    • If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie , confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuous synne is it.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computer science) An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.
    • Synonyms
    * prefix tree
    External links
    * (wikipedia "trie")

    Anagrams

    * * * * * ----

    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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