What's the difference between prance and rear?

Prance


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.
  • (v. i.) To ride on a prancing horse; to ride in an ostentatious manner.
  • (v. i.) To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "There's this mistaken idea we were just prancing about in platform shoes and bare bums to go against the grain.
  • (2) Other signs included a short prancing gait with head tucked in a similar manner to that of a show pony.
  • (3) [Would] there by any objections to the Gay Gordons performing and prancing on that occasion too?” the MoD asked.
  • (4) In dogs delta 9-THC but not delta 9-11-THC produced classical cannabimimetic signs including static ataxia, hyperreflexia, prancing and tail-tuck.
  • (5) He served as ringmaster, prancing on and off stage as fellow presidential candidates, combat veterans and YouTube celebrities all took turns paying tribute both to Trump and those who have served in the US armed forces.
  • (6) You need to know a bit of marine mammal psychology: if you chase after them, they’ll treat you with disdain, but if you figure out what makes them tick, they’ll dance with you under water for hours, pirouetting and prancing around you in an intoxicating aquatic ballet.
  • (7) Xan Brooks Dance on your own like everybody's watching Lost River had Ben Mendelsohn frugging in pursuit of a frigging, In the Name of My Daughter played "African drums" and let star Adèle Haenel engage in some tribal two-step, and The Search saw a young Chechen refugee forget the murder of his parents by prancing around to the Bee Gees.
  • (8) He prances around his estate, abusing his slaves as though they're characters in a sadistic game of The Sims.
  • (9) The scientists include Sir Ghillean Prance, former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Thomas Lovejoy, chief biodiversity adviser to the president of the World Bank; Prof Omar R. Masera, director of the bioenergy lab at the National University of Mexico and Nobel laureate on behalf of the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and others from Oxford, Stanford and Imperial College, London.
  • (10) A drummer called Martin Joyce and a bassist, whose name I couldn't remember, dragged my naked body through the undergrowth to a campfire where lawyers and record executives pranced, danced and tranced to a third rate David Bowie soundtrack.
  • (11) A petition set up by the group has more than 1,000 signatures , including Sir Ghillean Prance, former head of the world-renowned Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.
  • (12) Well, legendary German goalkeeper Sepp Maier clearly does now, as Timo Staudacher recalls: "On May 15 1976, during the Bundesliga match between Bayern Munich and VfL Bochum, a duck landed close to Maier's goal and started prancing about the six-yard box.
  • (13) Dario Fo has been prancing around dressed as a short, fat Silvio Berlusconi every night this week, in front of a roaring Roman audience.
  • (14) China must let those prancing provocateurs know how much of a price they pay when they deliberately rile us.
  • (15) Prince continues to prance around London like the Pied Piper, drawing faithfully queuing hordes this way and that.
  • (16) Getting out your phone to show your date a hilarious YouTube video of prancing pygmy goats (everyone does this, right?)
  • (17) Outside the Congress Center in Etobicoke, a western suburb of Toronto, a man with a demon mask pranced in the street holding a sign that said “Welcome to Harperland”.
  • (18) He has an onstage fool, Jacky, who dances and prances wearing Auschwitz-style pyjamas, complete with yellow star.
  • (19) Cue tears on the pitch and much laughter from the visiting fans, who had witnessed thousands of idiots prancing around, only to collectively fall to their knees as the news spread."
  • (20) The dancers fearlessly responded to the acute violence of the previous night’s events by prancing and voguing .

Rear


Definition:

  • (adv.) Early; soon.
  • (n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.
  • (n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
  • (a.) Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.
  • (v. t.) To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
  • (v. t.) To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.
  • (v. t.) To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.
  • (v. t.) To lift and take up.
  • (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.
  • (v. t.) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.
  • (v. t.) To rouse; to stir up.
  • (v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first group was reared in complete darkness while the second one was subjected to permanent noise.
  • (2) Laboratory-reared Ixodes scapularis Say, Amblyomma americanum (L.), and Dermacentor variabilis (Say) were fed on New Zealand white rabbits experimentally infected with Borrelia burgdorferi (JDI strain).
  • (3) Heavy death losses (59%) occurred in adult Mystromys 3--14 days after muscle biopsies were taken from their rear legs.
  • (4) Maternal age had a significant effect (P less than .05) on live body weights of broilers reared either separately or intermingled.
  • (5) Slight but significant shortening of the latency of initial positivity in the evoked potential was observed after rearing in the enriched condition as compared to the data obtained from the littermates that were reared in the standard or impoverished conditions.
  • (6) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
  • (7) Infected ticks were reared from larvae feeding on each of 11 rabbits taken from the same site.
  • (8) But in each party there are major issues to be dealt with as the primary phase of the contests slips gradually into the rear-view mirror.
  • (9) The external and internal rear-view mirrors of automobiles should be positioned within the binocular field of vision.
  • (10) This time, the syndrome was observed on adult cattle reared in the Accra Plains (Ghana) and infected by S. typhimurium.
  • (11) Serum somatomedin A was significantly reduced in the growth-retarded rats as compared to those whose growth was enhanced by rearing in small litters.
  • (12) This measure was significantly greater by 17.2% in chicks trained for 140 min than in dark-reared controls.
  • (13) It was caused at the frequency close to 100% in dysgenic offsprings reared above 25 degrees C, of which gonads were morphologically clearly different from those of usual GD sterility, whereas there was no indication of GD-3 sterility at temperatures below 24 degrees C. Temperature sensitive period of GD-3 sterility was estimated to the prepupal stage by shift-down experiment.
  • (14) a 45-mg pellet every 45 s) induces considerable locomotion, rearing and other motor activities in food-deprived rats.
  • (15) In contrast, when hamsters reared under LD conditions at 25 degrees C for 12 weeks were transferred to SD, testicular regression was associated with a decrease in plasma testosterone and the total LH binding per two testes and an increase in LH binding per unit testicular weight.
  • (16) Nevertheless, there are farms on which satisfactory results are obtained in rearing calves with low Ig levels.
  • (17) Littermate pigs were reared artificially or on the sow.
  • (18) There were no significant differences in the adrenal weights of males or females, but females reared by bisexual pairs had larger absolute and relative adrenals than females reared in populations.
  • (19) sp., described from wild-caught and laboratory-reared females, males, nymphs, and larvae parasitizing the Humboldt Penguin, Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, is the fifth species of the Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) capensis group to be recognized in the Neotropical Region.
  • (20) In cats that viewed lines of the same orientation with both eyes during rearing, a substantially smaller proportion of units were selective for orientation; the preferred orientations of these units also tended to match the orientation to which the cats had been exposed.