Trite vs Trie - What's the difference?
trite | trie |
Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).
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A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
, a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.
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(computer science) An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.
As nouns the difference between trite and trie
is that trite is a denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater while trie is an ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.As an adjective trite
is worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).As a verb trie is
obsolete spelling of lang=en.trite
English
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From (etyl) .Adjective
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- McPedro the cactus: How to woo a woman! On yehr fahrst date, don’t bring her cut flowers! That’s inhumane! And trite !
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(en) (wikipedia trite)Noun
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Etymology 1
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- 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.