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Prise


Definition:

  • (n.) An enterprise.
  • (n. & v.) See Prize, n., 5. Also Prize, v. t.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The truth is that it doesn’t depend on me.” £17.5m is the amount it will take to prise him away from the Stadio Olimpico.
  • (2) Tottenham’s Danny Rose apologises for setting bad example in Chelsea draw Read more The ill feeling spilled over into the tunnel at the end as Spurs and Chelsea players got involved in a rolling maul which led to the home manager Guus Hiddink being sent flying and his counterpart Mauricio Pochettino attemping to prise the multiple brawlers apart.
  • (3) Martin O'Neill , however, has taken this as his cue to try to prise James Collins from Villa Park.
  • (4) But Cech’s status means a big fee will be required to prise him from Stamford Bridge as his contract does not expire until the end of next season.
  • (5) The book faced a common fate for those who try to separate out finance and industrial capitalism, as if they could be prised apart.
  • (6) Tough issues like welfare, immigration, counter-terrorism, Europe, tax and the environment would start to prise this coalition apart.
  • (7) Aston Villa midfielder Barry Bannan and Reading defender Adrian Mariappa have done medicals with Palace this morning and the south London club are also trying to prise Liam Bridcutt and Leo Ulloa away from Brighton.
  • (8) It’s important that the spirit of sport wins out too.” Wenger also returned to the case of Anthony Martial, saying that he did not think that the player could be prised from Monaco before Manchester United signed him for a fee that could rise to £58m.
  • (9) Whether they could meet the fee required to prise Rémy away, however, remains to be seen though the fact Chelsea could potentially follow up Falcao’s arrival with a £43m move for Atlético’s Antoine Griezmann could hasten his departure.
  • (10) The cerebral midfielder shimmies this way and that, hoping to prise United open somehow, but the red line holds firm.
  • (11) Having recently prised the direction of special force night raids from US control, the infiltration of fighters equipped with rocket-propelled grenades, suicide vests and machine guns inside Kabul's equivalent of Baghdad's green zone must count as a major security lapse.
  • (12) If, through the creation of the Red Cross and later Médecins Sans Frontières, the right to healthcare even in conflict has become the norm for more than a century, then we can achieve the same for education in 2014, and prise open a window of hope amidst the increasing despair.
  • (13) Meanwhile Alan Pardew, Newcastle's manager, has reached an impasse in his attempts to prise the France right-back Mathieu Debuchy away from Lille, the Brazilian central defender Douglas from FC Twente and Andy Carroll from Liverpool.
  • (14) Later that night, Lola wailed in the street as the police prised her baby from her arms and led her into custody.
  • (15) Any interest in the Tunisia centre-half Aymen Abdennour has been dropped after he swapped Monaco for Valencia, while Zenit St Petersburg will resist attempts to prise away the Argentina defender Ezequiel Garay.
  • (16) They believe they have a good idea about who the core readership is, and one of the ways they prise a reaction from that readership is through shrieked alerts and cautionary tales about The Other.
  • (17) The striker has long been José Mourinho's principal forward target for the close season, a player Chelsea could not hope to prise away from the Vicente Calderón mid-term, with the London club now prepared to trigger the release clause in Costa's deal.
  • (18) The 21-year-old Frenchman is being monitored by Louis van Gaal as a potential summer recruitment but his decision to sign a new deal will make it hard for United to prise him away from the San Mamés.
  • (19) In a tight match they could easily have lost, City stayed patient, trusted in their ability and eventually prised open a Newcastle defence that was becoming increasingly stubborn.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shashi Tharoor: Britain should pay India damages over colonial rule Democracy, in other words, had to be prised from the reluctant grasp of the British by Indian nationalists.

Prose


Definition:

  • (n.) The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.
  • (n.) Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
  • (n.) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.
  • (a.) Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.
  • (v. t.) To write in prose.
  • (v. t.) To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
  • (v. i.) To write prose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
  • (2) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.
  • (3) In the first, span and free-recall measures were obtained for 24 subjects, each tested with four types of spoken material (nonsense syllables, random words, fourth-order approximations to English, and normal prose).
  • (4) But his magnificent, exact rendering of the world, in his mordant, civilised and generous prose, has no comparison.
  • (5) With prose that takes the English language and infuses it with inflections and a history that is uniquely Igbo, discernibly Nigerian and unmistakably African, Achebe's is a realism that ensures the enduring relevance of his fiction.
  • (6) It was concluded that CAs are more effective and more efficient than prose for teaching clinical decisionmaking.
  • (7) Young and old adults were tested for recall of ideas presented in a 641 word prose passage.
  • (8) "The inauguration address was poetry, and now people are looking for some prose," said Alden Meyer, policy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
  • (9) Louise Glück’s prose-poem collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night , won for poetry.
  • (10) He writes poetry and prose, he writes news reports and short stories.
  • (11) Pinter adores poetry, would perhaps have preferred his poetry to have taken precedence over his plays, and his prose often has the compression and musicality of poetry, what he calls the "question of rhythm".
  • (12) These models account for a broad range of memory-related processes, including word recognition, sentence verification, prose comprehension, and sentence production.
  • (13) • Various Voices: Prose, Poetry and Politics 1948-98 is published by Faber (£9.99).To order it at the special price of £7.99 plus 99p p&p, freephone 0500 600 102 or send a cheque payable to The Guardian CultureShop to 250 Western Avenue, London, W3 6EE.
  • (14) His narrative has the simple directness of the finest English prose: the overall effect is both intimate and majestic Perhaps he was lucky.
  • (15) Featuring handwritten lyrics and prose drawn from his notebooks and scraps of paper he kept in ringbinders, the selection was put together with the help of journalist Jon Savage .
  • (16) Ada banyak prakarsa dari bawah ke atas, mulai dari usaha pengelolaan sampah hingga tingkat nol sampai proses pengelolaan air kotor secara komunal.
  • (17) Subjects suffering from persecutory delusions, psychiatric controls and normal subjects were required to recall immediately six passages of prose, half of which contained mildly threatening propositions.
  • (18) But given how addictive the prose was in Constellation, where Marra was lyrical but also drover quickly, those who loved the John Leonard Prize winner a couple of years back are certainly hungering for more.
  • (19) P3 measures, physiological (body temperature, heart rate, subjective alertness), and cognitive performance (digit span, prose memory, digit symbol) variables were assessed.
  • (20) Someone with a decent prose style should do a proper translation of it.