What's the difference between apprentice and prentice?
Apprentice
Definition:
(n.) One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.
(n.) One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.
(n.) A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.
(v. t.) To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Alan Sugar did The Apprentice for older people, I would love to be on it.
(2) Summer Zervos: Apprentice contestant claims Trump kissed and groped her Read more “There’s an old principle,” said William Galston , a former adviser to Bill Clinton and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
(3) A woman will be crowned winner of The Apprentice on Wednesday as Lord Sugar, for the third time in the history of the show, will choose between two female candidates.
(4) In 1761, while still an apprentice surgeon, he made his discovery of the unique and bizarre cause--compression of the oesophagus by an aberrant right subclavian artery--of a fatal case of 'obstructed deglutition' for which he coined the term 'dysphagia lusoria' and for which he is eponymously remembered.
(5) See these jobs for 18- to 24-year-olds, as "apprentices", who only need to be paid the apprentice rate of £2.68 an hour, not the £6.31 minimum wage.
(6) Dawn raids However, as Redknapp's successful 2008 challenge to the legality of the search warrant later revealed, Operation Apprentice was not related to bungs at all.
(7) The apprentice has now become master of the Labour machine and the party is looking to him for stability at one of the most uncertain, as well as most exciting, moments in its history.
(8) With Redknapp's and Mandaric's trial now over, it can be revealed that as a result of Operation Apprentice, Storrie was prosecuted, charged with cheating the public revenue in relation to the alleged payment to Faye, and that he and Mandaric were also tried for tax evasion over an alleged termination fee paid to the midfielder Eyal Berkovic via a company, Medellin Enterprises, registered in the British Virgin Islands.
(9) Ian Duncan Smith mentioned the welfare to work programme and apprentice scheme.
(10) The decree included Mikan's requirements and the introduction of tests for pharmacists' apprentices (tirones) prior to the journeyman's examination and compulsory registration of employed pharmacists (subjecti) at the Faculty of Medicine.
(11) I did, though, have my suspicions that the perpetrator of this vile assault was Dolge Orlick, Joe's journeyman apprentice.
(12) But if we have these machines that are working with us, almost like an apprentice, we can tell them what it is that we want at a high level.
(13) From 1 October the minimum wage for apprentices under 19 and all in their first year of apprenticeship rose to £3.30 an hour; only those over 19 and in a second or subsequent year – very much in the minority – are eligible for the minimum wage for their age band.
(14) It is no longer far-fetched to consider a former host of the reality TV show The Apprentice occupying the White House.
(15) It’s just the politics at the end of the day beat me,” Hockey told Mark Bouris, the founder of Wizard Home Loans and the host of Celebrity Apprentice Australia.
(16) Both will be called to explain themselves before parliament's public accounts committee, at the invitation of Margaret Hodge , the indefatigable ringmistress of Westminster proceedings that can often rival an episode of The Apprentice for drama.
(17) The previous record high for The Apprentice was 7.5 million viewers for last week's show.
(18) Why the Republican healthcare bill was doomed: a failed political balancing act Read more Gwenda Blair, a Trump biographer, said of Trump’s supporters: “They voted for a guy who could fix it, the CEO, on The Apprentice for 10 years, who could make a deal with anybody.” But the tactics that served Trump so well in business – playing the alpha male, holding one-on-one meetings – did not translate to politics, she said.
(19) At the same time the package was aimed at easing the employment of people on temporary contracts, and stimulating training, apprentice and internship schemes.
(20) The first of three Food Tube-branded books will be published in June featuring three of the cooks including Kerryann Dunlop, one of the original apprentices at Oliver's 15 restaurant.
Prentice
Definition:
(n.) An apprentice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The intracellular distribution of ligandin and Z protein was studied by applying the peroxidase-antiperoxidase procedure of L. A. Sternberger (Immunocytochemistry, Prentice Hall Inc., 1974) to paraffin sections and free-floating 10-micrometers frozen sections that were processed for both light and electron microscopy.
(2) In his closing speech to the jury on Monday, prosecutor Alex Prentice said the charge of perjury was extremely serious.
(3) A survey was conducted among the medical and nursing staff of Prentice Women's Hospital in an attempt to examine attitudes toward patient education.
(4) Some 78 MPs from the Labour and Lib Dem benches are backing an amendment put down by Labour's Gordon Prentice to the constitutional reform and governance bill, which reaches report stage in the house this week.
(5) Prentice (Biometrika 1986;73:1-11) showed how the case-cohort design can be used to obtain relative risk estimates for comparisons within the cohort being studied.
(6) The justice minister Bridget Prentice made the pledge at the end of an emergency debate on the issue held today in parliament's Westminster Hall.
(7) Abbott’s position is under intense pressure as he prepares to address the National Press Club on Monday to outline the government’s agenda for the year – a speech that Liberal MP Jane Prentice said would be a make-or-break moment.
(8) Gower, C. H. Barton, H. M. Prentice, V. L. Elsom, S. E. Moore, R. D. Cox, C. Quinn, W. Putt, and F. S. Walsh, Cell 50:1119-1130, 1987).
(9) Predictive models based on the survivorship analysis of Kalbfleisch and Prentice were constructed to illustrate the impact of these variables on outcome.
(10) Surprise supporters of the prime minister include the serial rebels Michael Meacher and Gordon Prentice.
(11) Police made several seizures of the substance in Northern Ireland last year and the PSNI's organised crime anti-drugs unit is investigating, Prentice told the inquest.
(12) "A further British diplomatic mission has travelled to Benghazi, led by Christopher Prentice," Hague told the Commons.
(13) Prentice said Abbott’s scheduled speech to the National Press Club on Monday would be a make or break moment for the prime minister.
(14) Sources and magnitude of errors in applying Prentice's rule in calculating decentration for spherical lenses were investigated.
(15) Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1963) and labelling theory, this paper explores the nature of this stigma.
(16) But Wright and his colleague, Gordon Prentice, asked the prime minister for assurances that the new entitlements would be enforceable, with Prentice asking whether the courts would adjudicate.
(17) Cooperative binding isotherms for protons have long been observed (but not emphasized as cooperative binding) when studies have been done on clusters for the evaluation of metal ion complexation [A. E. Martell & M. Calvin (1952) Chemistry of the Metal Chelate Compounds, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey].
(18) The firm created a "super-injunction" which also banned the disclosure of the injunction's existence, meaning the Guardian was barred from publishing Farrelly's parliamentary question – although Prentice said that she believed the newspaper could have reported the question, citing the 1689 Bill of Rights.
(19) The matrix form of Prentice's equation is solved completely for dioptric power.
(20) Around 70 MPs signed a Commons motion calling for Goodwin to lose the right to call himself "Sir" and in April Labour MP Gordon Prentice wrote to the cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell, who chairs the forfeiture committee, to ask him to take action.