prise
English edit
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- (verb) prize
Etymology edit
From Old French prise.
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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
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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
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Noun edit
prise c (singular definite prisen, plural indefinite priser)
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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
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prise f (plural prises or prisen, diminutive prieske n)
- (Belgium) electrical outlet, wall socket
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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
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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.
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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
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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)
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Etymology edit
From the past participle of prendre.
Noun edit
prise oblique singular, f (oblique plural prises, nominative singular prise, nominative plural prises)