What's the difference between pram and prim?

Pram


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Prame

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
  • (2) If you have young kids, bring a booster seat, as prams and pushchairs aren't allowed inside.
  • (3) Parish's (1972) Revised PRAM II did not detect any change, but Williams' (1971) PRAM II demonstrated a significant reduction in anti-Afro-American attitudes for those Ss who received 8 conditioning sessions.
  • (4) Prams triggered low-grade, non-specific anxiety: they were vehicles of entrapment.
  • (5) At our best we use it to spur on creativity, at our worst we launch our toys out of the pram and become drama queens instead of dramatists, citing conspiracy theories and the powers that be for destroying our work.
  • (6) Her baby daughter was also kitted out in Burberry, and Westbrook had a beige-check pram.
  • (7) Pickup, now 71, recalls the "horrible, infinitesimal detail of how accurate you had to be, partly because you didn't want stones bouncing off the pram into the audience".
  • (8) I mention David Miliband (whose claim for a £199 pram was rejected) and Jack Straw (who paid only half the amount of council tax he claimed back in allowances over four years – he apologised and repaid the difference).
  • (9) From there, it was a short hop to the repopularisation of the kind of archetypes that, in the 80s, were the preserve of boneheaded Tory MPs - not least that of the "Pram Face", defined on the website Urban Dictionary as "a girl who is a little rough round the edges and wouldn't look at all out of place at 14 years of age pushing a newborn through a council estate".
  • (10) New parents also face a £9,152 bill during the first twelve months of their new baby's life, taking into account expenditure on equipment such as buggies, cots and prams etc.
  • (11) The kindergarten teacher suffered a 5cm gash to her right hand, after intervening to stop a firework exploding in her three-year-old’s pram.
  • (12) These criminals are putting knives in kids hands, and the prams.
  • (13) The best casual game designers never assume that the player's attention will be fully on the game; they may be on the bus or even pushing a pram.
  • (14) Pavements and public transport become yours (I was once asked to get off a bus so a woman with a pram could get on, but let's not re-enact that ugly scene here) and the world can't get enough of you.
  • (15) Some claim that the pram in the hall is the enemy of art.
  • (16) The camera cuts back to show that alongside her in the gloom are other figures – but these are swathed in burkas, pushing prams.
  • (17) With the benefit of hindsight, Kid A's wilful racket now recalls the clatter of a rattle being thrown from a pram.
  • (18) I run in the dark with my iPod in full view and, like most Danish mothers, I would leave Liv sleeping in a pram outside a cafe.
  • (19) Three cases of accidental strangulation of children in prams are described.
  • (20) But that's very British – pram races, sea-boot races and a Jack in the Green festival that has very ancient roots.

Prim


Definition:

  • (n.) The privet.
  • (a.) Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person.
  • (v. t.) To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected preciseness; to prink.
  • (v. i.) To dress or act smartly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For many men, Austen is the archetypal women's author – her canvas too domestic, her domain too girly, her men too starchy and conformist, her settings too chintzy and her plots too prim to excite the average male reader.
  • (2) In Henley, he encountered with interest the bookshop-owning lesbians who had taken opium with Cocteau, and a prim, elderly lady who had, in her youth, urinated regularly upon pioneering sexologist Havelock Ellis.
  • (3) The main factor, however, is presumably not primness or diffidence but the chart's timeframe.
  • (4) The looks were set off by dashing turbans, decorative headscarves, and prim chignons for the unveiled.
  • (5) So, with this profile of fragments it is possible to build a spanning tree (PRIM'S arborescent skeleton) and to place a priori on it, new structures with other properties to value their activity level in the designed field.
  • (6) Primidone (PRIM) is metabolized into phenobarbital (PB) and phenylethylmalonamide (PEMA).
  • (7) And in part, as Murray staggered about indiscriminately high-fiving at the end, there was a sense that this has also been something of a rather mannered love story, at its centre Murray and that prim, capricious, but in the end compliantly adorable Wimbledon crowd.
  • (8) Prim though its traditions may be, Wimbledon is right to defend them.
  • (9) The synthesis of a ditopic linear receptor 3 consisting of an azacrown ether moiety for binding prim.
  • (10) When Klitschko shook his head primly and said: "I'm very conservative.
  • (11) The MIC has been determined, using the following antibiotics: chloramphenicol, tetracycline HCL, ampicillin, doxycycline, rifampicin, cephazolin, carbenicillin, nifuratel, gentamicin, aminosidine, trimetho-prim-sulphamethoazole, nalidixic acid.
  • (12) She may find it more necessary, or even perhaps more shocking, for it makes our age seem prim and puritanical and half-witted by comparison, not to mention more parochial.
  • (13) Low concentrations of serum gamma-Globulins were found in Phb (P less than 0.001), Prim (P less than 0.001, Phen (P less than 0.001) treated patients.
  • (14) Bird, a 22-year-old graduate when filming began, played 16-year-old Will McKenzie, a prim public schoolboy hastily transferred to a suburban comprehensive after a collapse in his family's fortunes.
  • (15) At his behest, Third Man staff dress exclusively in yellow, black and a dash of white: men wear sharp suits and skinny ties, with three thin lines scratched, as if by an animal's claw, through the centre; the women's dresses are prim and Mondrian-inspired, with a frisson added by low-denier hosiery.
  • (16) I’m not a naturist, but our family is certainly not prim when it comes to nudity, and I have authored a guidebook about wild swimming .
  • (17) The report, by the BBC Trust, found that many viewers were fed up with the stranglehold of long-running dramas, such as Casualty and Waterloo Road , on the BBC1 evening schedules, but also felt that both BBC1 and BBC2 were too prim and middle-class in tone.
  • (18) The relationship between structural changes of the minor salivary glands with age was evaluated by morphometric analysis in twenty patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (prim.
  • (19) Monoclonal immunoglobulins (M Igl) were detected in the serum of 10 of 20 patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (prim.
  • (20) When the Arts Council cut funding to Compass, he extended his rogue’s gallery with a sulphurous Rochester in Fay Weldon’s adaptation of Jane Eyre , on tour and at the Playhouse, in a phantasmagorical production by Helena Kaut-Howson, with Alexandra Mathie as Jane (1993); and, back at the NT, as a magnificent, treacherous Leicester in Howard Davies ’ remarkable revival of Schiller’s Mary Stuart (1996) with Isabelle Huppert as a sensual Mary and Anna Massey a bitterly prim Elizabeth.

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