What's the difference between prie and prim?

Prie


Definition:

  • (n.) The plant privet.
  • (v. i.) To pry.

Example Sentences:

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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