different between price vs middlings

English

Alternative forms

• prize (obsolete) [16th–19th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?s
• (UK, US): enPR: pr?s, IPA^(key): /p?a?s/
• (Canadian raising): IPA^(key): /p???s/

Noun

price (plural prices)

1. The cost required to gain possession of something.
2. The cost of an action or deed.

3. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Proverbs xxxi. 10

     Her price is far above rubies.

   • new treasures still, of countless price

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Descendants

• ? Irish: praghas

Translations

Verb

price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple past and past participle priced)

1. (transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
4. (transitive, colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.

   to price eggs

Derived terms

• budget-priced

Translations

Further reading

• price in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• price in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Cripe, recip.

Latin

Noun

price

1. ablative singular of prex

English

Etymology

middling +? -s.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?dl??s/, /?m?dl???s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?d(?)l??s/
• Hyphenation: mid?dl?ings

Noun

middlings pl (plural only)

1. (business) Commodities that are of intermediate price, quality, or size.
2. (business) Partially refined ore or petroleum.
   • 1924, Supreme Court of the United States, Miller v. Robertson/Opinion of the Court

     The product described in the earlier contract is:

     'All the zinc sulphide crude ore, zinc sulphide concentrates and zinc sulphide middlings, shipped from Midvale, Utah, Kennett, Cal., or any other point by or under the control of the seller during the period of this agreement.'
3. (milling) Low-grade or coarse flour; coarse wheat mixed with bran.
   • 1917, Carl William Larson, Fred Silver Putney, Dairy cattle feeding and management, page 95,

     Buckwheat middlings is a fairly good feed for dairy cows, being far superior to buckwheat bran.
4. (cooking, chiefly Southern US) The part of a pig between the shoulder and the ham.

Noun

middlings

1. plural of middling