different between price vs onset
price
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)
- The cost required to gain possession of something.
- The cost of an action or deed.
- Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Proverbs xxxi. 10
- Her price is far above rubies.
- new treasures still, of countless price
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Proverbs xxxi. 10
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Irish: praghas
Translations
Verb
price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple past and past participle priced)
- (transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
- (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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:
- (transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
- (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
- ablative singular of prex
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onset
English
Etymology
From on- +? set. Compare Old English onsettan (“to impose; oppress, bear down”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??n?s?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /??n?s?t/
- (US, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /??n?s?t/
Noun
onset (plural onsets)
- (archaic) An attack; an assault especially of an army.
- Synonym: storming
- 1800, William Wordsworth, Six thousand Veterans
- Who on that day the word of onset gave.
- (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
- (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
- Synonym: anlaut
- Antonym: coda
- Coordinate terms: nucleus, coda, rime
- Holonym: syllable
- (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
- A setting about; a beginning.
- Synonyms: start, beginning; see also Thesaurus:beginning
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Delays
- There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
- (obsolete) Anything added, such as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
- 1592, William Shakespeare , Titus Andronicus, Act 1, Scene 1
- And will with deeds requite thy gentleness:
- And, for an onset, Titus, to advance
- Thy name and honourable family,
- Lavinia will I make my empress.
- 1592, William Shakespeare , Titus Andronicus, Act 1, Scene 1
Translations
Verb
onset (third-person singular simple present onsets, present participle onsetting, simple past and past participle onset)
- (obsolete) To assault; to set upon.
- (obsolete) To set about; to begin.
References
- onset in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- 'onest, ETNOs, Eston, SONET, Stone, notes, onest, set on, seton, steno, steno-, stone, tones
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