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Definition: Prentice |
PrenticeNoun1. Works for an expert to learn a trade. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prentice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Prentice \Pren"tice\, noun. [Aphetic form of apprentice.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: PrenticeSynonyms: apprentice (n), learner (n). (additional references) |
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Prentice is a village located in Price County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 626.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prentice (town), Wisconsin."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Learner | Noun: learner, scholar, student, pupil; apprentice, prentice, journeyman; articled clerk; beginner, tyro, amateur, rank amateur; abecedarian, alphabetarian; alumnus, eleve. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Prentice |
| Specialty definitions using "prentice": Coco/R, Convergent Technologies Operating System ♦ error detection and correction ♦ Pascal P4, prepaging ♦ RDB, Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ statistical time division multiplexing ♦ working set. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Evelyn Prentice (1934) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Prentice, residence in Delray Beach. Dining room. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
George D. Prentice | A friend that you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him, no matter what that may be. |
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| "Prentice" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.87% of the time. "Prentice" is used about 265 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 98.87% | 262 | 18,239 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.13% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 265 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "prentice" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Prentice | Last name | 3,000 | 3,928 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Prentice, WI (village, FIPS 65325) |
Expression using "prentice": try one's prentice hand at. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "prentice": Prentice-hall, prentice-work. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Albanian | Nxënës (apprentice, boy, disciple, follower, learner, pupil, schoolboy, student), Çirak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غلام يتعلم المهنة, شاب متمرن. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чирак (apprentice), Неопитен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Prentice's lov (Prentice law). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | loi de Prentice (Prentice law). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Prentice-Regel (Prentice law), Dezentrationsgesetz (Prentice law). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ולי". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Tanonc (apprentice), Inas (flunkey, footman, gillie, knave, lackey, lacquey, leathery, manservant, man-servant, men-servants, scout, servant, sinewy, steward, stringy, syce, tendinous, thewy, valet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | prindeis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enticepray aprendiz (devil, entrant, improver, novice, recruit, tyro). (various references) Подмастерье. (various references) pripravnik (probationer). (various references) Aprendiz (apprentice, devil, learner, novice, trainee). (various references) försöka sig på (attempt, essay, have a fling at, have a go, try one's prentice hand at). (various references) Acemi (apprentice, beginner, bungler, callow, catechumen, clumsy, colt, cub, dabster, green, greenhorn, guiltless, half-baked, inept, inexperienced, inexperienced hand, inexpert, jackaroo, johnny-come-lately, learner, neophyte, new, novice, punk, raw, recruit, runnynose, simple, stooge, strange, stranger, sucking, tenderfoot, tiro, trainee, tyro, unbaked, unfledged, unseasoned, unskilled, untrained, unversed, young, young in one's job), Çırak. (various references) Підмайстер. (various references) tay người vụng về. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prentice": prenticed, prentices. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "prentice": apprentice. (additional references) | |
Words containing "prentice": apprenticed, apprentices, apprenticeship, apprenticeships. (additional references) | |
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"Prentice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pentice, pentise, phrenic, porpentine, Prendine, Prentise, Prentisse. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prentice" (pronounced pre"nti's) |
| 4 | -n t i' s | intis, mantis. |
| 3 | -t i' s | botrytis, clematis, fortis, Metis, phlebitis, practice, solstice. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: terpenic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: enteric, enticer, percent, precent, receipt. | |
-2 letters: center, centre, cerite, cretin, entice, entire, incept, pecten, pectin, piecer, pierce, pincer, prince, pterin, recent, recept, recipe, recite, repent, repine, retine, tenrec, tierce, triene. | |
-3 letters: citer, creep, crepe, crept, cripe, enter, erect, inept, inert, inter, nicer, niece, niter, nitre, pence, peter, piece, preen, price, print, recti, rente. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: epicenter, intercept, phrenetic, prenticed, prentices, prescient, princelet, reception, recipient, reinspect. | |
+2 letters: apprentice, epicenters, epicentral, excerpting, excerption, intercepts, interspace, nonreceipt, percentile, perception, percipient, perfecting, perfection, pernickety, pertinence, pertinency, precenting, prelecting, prelection, princelets, putrescine, receipting, receptions, recipients, reinspects, respecting, sceptering. | |
+3 letters: apprenticed, apprentices, becarpeting, carpentries, centerpiece, centripetal, copresident, corecipient, deprecating, deprecation, excerptions, intercepted, intercepter, interceptor, intercouple, interspaced, interspaces, metanephric, neuroleptic, nonreceipts, paragenetic, parenthetic, pentarchies, percentiles, perceptions, percipients, perfections, persecuting, persecution, persistence, persistency, persnickety, pertinences, praelecting, predicament, preelecting, preelection, preenacting, preerecting, prelections, presciently, princeliest, putrescines, reaccepting, recarpeting, reinspected, stringpiece, superinfect, transpierce, unreceptive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 6E 74 69 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . -. - .. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e n t i c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 006E 0074 0069 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5084718086756971 |
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