different between prey vs weever

English

Etymology

From Middle English preye, prei, prey?e, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French preie, one of the variants of proie, from Latin praeda. Compare predator.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?, IPA^(key): /p?e?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: pray

Noun

prey (countable and uncountable, plural preys)

1. (archaic) Anything, such as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; something taken by force from an enemy in war

   Synonyms: spoil, booty, plunder
2. That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured

   • Already sees herself the monster's prey.

3. A person or thing given up as a victim.
4. A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.

5. (archaic) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
6. The victim of a disease.

Translations

Verb

prey (third-person singular simple present preys, present participle preying, simple past and past participle preyed)

1. (intransitive) To act as a predator.
   • 2001, Karen Harden McCracken, The Life History of a Texas Birdwatcher (page 278)

     The ridge had been a haven for birds and small earth creatures, creeping, crawling, and hopping in a little world of balanced ecology where wild things preyed and were preyed upon […]

Related terms

• prey on

References

• prey in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• pyre, rype

English

Etymology

From Middle English *wever, from Old Northern French wivre (“serpent”), from Latin v?pera. Doublet of wyvern and viper.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?wi?.v?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?wi.v?/
• Homophone: weaver
• Rhymes: -i?v?(?)

Noun

weever (plural weevers)

1. Any of the usually brown fish in family Trachinidae, which catch prey by burying themselves in the sand and snatching them as they go past.

Synonyms

• weeverfish, weaverfish

Derived terms

Translations

References

• weever at OneLook Dictionary Search
• weever in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• weever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Trachinidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Trachinidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons