What's the difference between pease and prease?

Pease


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Pea
  • (n.) A pea.
  • (n.) A plural form of Pea. See the Note under Pea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In conjunction with the previous paper (Milne, R. W., Theolis, R., Maurice, R., Pease, R. J., Weech, P. K., Rassart, E., Fruchart, J.-C., Scott, J., and Marcel, Y. L. (1989) J. Biol.
  • (2) This substitution converts codon 2153 from glutamine (CAA) in apo B100 mRNA to a stop codon (UAA) in apoB48 mRNA (Powell, L. M., Wallis, S. C., Pease, R. J., Edwards, Y. H., Knott, T. J., and Scott, J.
  • (3) When the millionaire fund manager Nichola Pease told a House of Commons committee last month that a year's maternity leave was "too long", she triggered a row about whether it has now bent too far.
  • (4) Pease, we must assume, would not have chosen to sound so puffed up if he had known that Lawsky was about to publish his explosive allegations.
  • (5) The gene was also synthesized from its fragments by using an overlap extension method similar to the procedure as described [Horton, R. M., Hunt, H. D., Ho, S. N., Pullen, J. K. & Pease, L. R. (1989) Gene 77, 61-68].
  • (6) Surely, after hearing it, the crowd would surge forwards and carry me on their shoulders, from our hotel in Brighton maybe even as far as Westminster (stopping off at the Pease Pottage Services ), where we would nail our Grand Remonstrance to the doors of parliament itself.
  • (7) To examine whether these results were mediated by the previously demonstrated mechanism of RNA modification (Powell, L. M., Wallis, S. C., Pease, R. J., Edwards, Y. H., Knott, T. J., and Scott, J.
  • (8) That may have infuriated many women, but Pease's second argument that the "commercial realities" of some City jobs – covering financial markets in different time zones, perhaps – just don't permit flexible working is harder to dismiss.
  • (9) "In light of your suggestion for John Terry's shirt design," writes Anthony Pease, "Emile Heskey could wear a similar one, only with the arrow on the back and another pointing to his elbow."
  • (10) Pease and Baker (1948) (74) achieved an early success with the double-embedding method using the plastic "Parlodion" and paraffin wax.
  • (11) Consider this self-congratulatory statement by the chairman, Sir John Pease, only last week: "In recent weeks, issues have surfaced around governance and behaviour in banking.
  • (12) It may have hops in it, but it is keg.” When I put this to Bob Pease, CEO of the American Brewer’s Association and key speaker at the Siba conference, he visibly bristles at the implication that keg beer is somehow inferior to cask.
  • (13) We may not get cask ale, but we have a total appreciation of quality, in any format.” The beer bloggers appear to agree with Pease, often painting Camra as out of touch, and attacking British real ale as “boring brown beer”.

Prease


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To press; to crowd.
  • (n.) A press; a crowd.

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