prise
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (verb) prize
Etymology[edit]
From Old French prise.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
prise (third-person singular simple present prises, present participle prising, simple past and past participle prised)
- To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
- 1919, Sax Rohmer, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper:
- I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked.
- c. 1925, Jack Lindsay, translation of Lysistrata:
- Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart!
- 2004, BBC News[1]:
- Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products.
- Extract something that is difficult to obtain.
- prise information out of someone
Translations[edit]
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Noun[edit]
prise (plural prises)
- (obsolete) An enterprise or adventure.
- 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, →OCLC:
- In which I may record the memory Of my loves conquest, peerlesse beauties prise
- Obsolete form of prize.
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Danish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
prise c (singular definite prisen, plural indefinite priser)
Inflection[edit]
Verb[edit]
prise (imperative pris, infinitive at prise, present tense priser, past tense priste, perfect tense har prist)
- to praise
References[edit]
- “prise” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “prise,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
prise f (plural prises or prisen, diminutive prieske n)
- (Belgium) electrical outlet, wall socket
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old French prise.
Noun[edit]
prise f (plural prises)
- (electrical) socket, wall socket (also prise électrique)
- (martial arts) hold
- (climbing) hold (of a climbing wall)
- grip
- (baseball) a strike
- a taking or capture
- la prise de la Bastille
- (film) a take
Derived terms[edit]
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Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
prise f sg
Etymology 3[edit]
Verb[edit]
prise
- inflection of priser:
Further reading[edit]
- “prise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From pris.
Verb[edit]
prise (imperative pris, present tense priser, passive prises, simple past and past participle prisa or priset)
- to price (something)
- prise seg ut av markedet - price oneself out of the market
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Norse prísa, from Middle Low German prisen, from Old French priser.
Verb[edit]
prise (imperative pris, present tense priser, passive prises, simple past priste, past participle prist, present participle prisende)
References[edit]
- “prise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “prise_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “prise_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the past participle of prendre.
Noun[edit]
prise oblique singular, f (oblique plural prises, nominative singular prise, nominative plural prises)
Descendants[edit]
- English terms derived from Old French
- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Danish/iːsə
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- Danish lemmas
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- Danish common-gender nouns
- da:Nautical
- Danish verbs
- Dutch terms derived from French
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- Dutch lemmas
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- Dutch feminine nouns
- Belgian Dutch
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- French lemmas
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- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- fr:Martial arts
- fr:Climbing
- fr:Baseball
- fr:Film
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- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
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