Trice

Definition: Trice

Trice

Noun

1. A very short time (as the time it takes to blink once); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash".

Verb

1. Raise with a line, as of a window shade.

2. Hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

TRICE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Trice

Instantaneity

Moment, instant, second, minute; twinkling, trice, flash, breath, crack, jiffy, coup, burst, flash of lightning, stroke of time.

Adverb: instantaneously; Adjective: in no time, in less than no time; presto, subito, instanter, suddenly, at a stroke, like a shot; in a moment; n. in the blink of an eye, in the twinkling of an eye, in a trice; in one's tracks; right away; toute a l'heure; at one jump, in the same breath, per saltum, uno saltu; at once, all at once; plump, slap; "at one fell swoop"; at the same instant; Noun: immediately; (early); extempore, on the moment, on the spot, on the spur of the moment; no sooner said than done; just then; slap-dash; (haste).

Junction

Inosculate; entwine, intwine; interlink, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave; entangle; twine round, belay; tighten; trice up, screw up.

Crosswords: Trice

Serbo-Croatian (chaff).

Books

• Football's Fallen Hero - The Jack Trice Story (reference)

• Ounce, Dice, Trice (reference)

• Quick Cook: Tempting Dishes Served Up in a Trice (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[Edwin Hugh Lawson] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Leon Trice..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "trice": in a trice ♦ trice up. Additional references.

Beginning with "trice": Trice-rolph.

Albanian

ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up), çast (crack, eyewink, flash, hour, instant, jiff, jiffy, minute, moment, point, tick). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لمحة بصر, ‏لحظة (awhile, breath, breathing, instant, jiffy, little while, minute, moment, second, short time, tick, wink), ‏رفع شراعا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

момент (instant, minute, moment, occasion, sec, second, shake, twinkling, while, whipstitch), миг (flash, instant, jiff, jiffy, minute, moment, second, shake, tick, twinkle, twinkling), притягам платно. (various references)

Czech

okamžik (instant, jiff, jiffy, minute, moment, Nick, second, tick). (various references)

Farsi 

کشیدن یابستن , لحظه (Flash, Instance, Instant, Minute, Moment, Second, Spot), دم (At, Blast, Breath, Instant, Minute, Moment, Tail, Train), باطناب بستن (Bight, Rope). (various references)

French

moment, hisser, clin d'�"il. (various references)

German

im Nu (in a flash, in a jiffy, in a trice, in an instant, in no time). (various references)

Greek 

στιγμή (instant, jiffy, moment, stop, whit), ανασύρω και δένω ιστίο. (various references)

Hebrew 

�"רף עין (eyewink, instant, jiffy, moment, twinkle). (various references)

Hungarian

pillanat (flash, instant, jiff, jiffy, minute, moment, shake, tick). (various references)

Indonesian

sekejap mata (jiffy). (various references)

Italian

istante (crack, instant, moment), attimo (bit, instant, jiff, jiffy, moment, sec, tick). (various references)

Manx

shiaull y chrappey seose (to trice a sail), ayns meekey-sooilley (in a trice). (various references)

Pig Latin

icetray.(various references)

Portuguese

momento (flash, full stop, hour, import, instant, jiff, jiffy, minute, moment, momentum, point, tick, time), instante (breath, flash, instant, jiff, jiffy, minute, moment, tick). (various references)

Romanian

moment (flash, hour, instant, jiffy, juncture, minute, Mo, moment, one moment, page, point, second, shake, tick, time, turn, twinkle, wait a bit), clipitã (jiffy, wink), clipã (a flash of wit, hour, instant, juncture, minute, moment, point, second, tick, wink). (various references)

Russian 

мгновение (instant, jiff, jiffy, minute, tick, twinkling). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trenutak (flash, instant, jiff, jiffy, juncture, minute, moment, point, twinkling, wee), tren oka (twinkling), podići i vezati. (various references)

Spanish

tris, santiamén (jiffy). (various references)

Swedish

i en handvändning (before you could say jack robinson, in a trice). (various references)

Turkish

an (flash, instant, jiff, jiffy, minute, moment, point, second, snatch, span, split second, wink). (various references)

Ukrainian

мить (flash, instant, jiff, jiffy, second, tick, twinkling, wink). (various references)

Vietnamese 

$in a trice$ trong nháy mắt. (various references)

Welsh

chwinciad (twinkling). (various references)

trisen. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "trice": triced, triceps, tricepses, triceratops, triceratopses, trices. (additional references)

Words ending with "trice": cantatrice, cockatrice, directrice, gentrice. (additional references)

Words containing "trice": administratrices, aviatrices, cantatrices, cicatrices, coadjutrices, cockatrices, directrices, dominatrices, executrices, generatrices, gentrices, heretrices, heritrices, inheritrices, matrices, mediatrices, oratrices, rectrices, tectrices, testatrices. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Trice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: drice, Tarace, terrice, tica, ticey, tici, Tirc, tirci, tirric, toric, torice, Torpichen, trache, traci, traec, Traicte, trake, treace, trece, trecle, Trecwn, Trepca, triac, tric, triced, tricep, tricet, tricey, trich, Trichet, trici, trickee, trico, Tricomp, tricor, trics, tricy, trife, trige, Trigen, trik, triked, trikle, triky, trime, Trinci, trirex, trisle, Tritc, triwe, trize, trocal, trocaz, troce, troke, Txiki, urice. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: citer, recti.

-1 letter: cire, cite, etic, rice, rite, tier, tire.

-2 letters: ice, ire, rec, rei, ret, tic, tie.

-3 letters: er, et, it, re, ti.

+1 letter: cerite, citers, cither, credit, cretic, cretin, curite, direct, erotic, metric, recite, relict, steric, terbic, thrice, ticker, tierce, triced, trices, uretic.

+2 letters: article, cattier, centric, ceratin, cerites, cerotic, certain, certify, chitter, cigaret, circlet, cirrate, cistern, cithern, cithers, cithren, citrate, citrine, cittern, cointer, cordite, coterie, cottier, cowrite, creatin, credits, cretics, cretins, cricket, crinite, cristae, critter, cuprite, curites, dictier, directs, ditcher, enteric, enticer, erethic, ergotic, eristic, erotica, erotics, erratic, etheric, eucrite, evictor, exciter, excitor, heretic, hitcher, icteric, icterus, inciter, itchier, metrics, mortice, neritic, noticer, orectic, paretic, picrate, picrite, picture, pitcher, predict, pricket, pyretic, raciest, receipt, recital, recited, reciter, recites, recruit, rectify, rectrix, relicts, reticle, richest, rickets, rickety, stearic, sticker, tackier, tacrine, techier, tectrix, terebic, theriac, thermic, thicker, tickers, tickler, tierced, tiercel, tierces, triceps, tricked, tricker, trickie, trickle, trisect, utricle, verdict, xerotic.