trice

T0347600 (trīs)n. A very short period of time; an instant: came back in a trice.tr.v. triced, tric·ing, tric·es Nautical To hoist and secure with a rope: trice a sail.

[From Middle English (at a) trise, at one pull, from trisen, to hoist, from Middle Dutch trīsen, from trīse, pulley. V., from Middle English trisen.]

trice

(traɪs) nmoment; instant (esp in the phrase in a trice)[C15 (in the phrase at or in a trice, in the sense: at one tug): apparent substantive use of trice²]

trice

(traɪs) vb (Nautical Terms) nautical (often foll by: up) to haul up or secure[C15: from Middle Dutch trīsen, from trīse pulley]

trice¹

(traɪs)

n. a very short time; an instant: in a trice. [1400–50; late Middle English tryse; probably representing *trise a pull, tug, derivative of trisen to pull; see trice²]

trice²

(traɪs)

v.t. triced, tric•ing. Naut. 1. to pull or haul with a rope. 2. to haul up and fasten with a rope (usu. fol. by up). [1350–1400; Middle English trisen < Middle Dutch trīsen to hoist, derivative of trīse pulley]

-trice

var. of -trix. [< French or Italian -trice < Latin -trīcem, acc. of -trīx -trix]

trice

Past participle: triced
Gerund: tricing

Imperative
trice
trice

Present
I trice
you trice
he/she/it trices
we trice
you trice
they trice

Preterite
I triced
you triced
he/she/it triced
we triced
you triced
they triced

Present Continuous
I am tricing
you are tricing
he/she/it is tricing
we are tricing
you are tricing
they are tricing

Present Perfect
I have triced
you have triced
he/she/it has triced
we have triced
you have triced
they have triced

Past Continuous
I was tricing
you were tricing
he/she/it was tricing
we were tricing
you were tricing
they were tricing

Past Perfect
I had triced
you had triced
he/she/it had triced
we had triced
you had triced
they had triced

Future
I will trice
you will trice
he/she/it will trice
we will trice
you will trice
they will trice

Future Perfect
I will have triced
you will have triced
he/she/it will have triced
we will have triced
you will have triced
they will have triced

Future Continuous
I will be tricing
you will be tricing
he/she/it will be tricing
we will be tricing
you will be tricing
they will be tricing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been tricing
you have been tricing
he/she/it has been tricing
we have been tricing
you have been tricing
they have been tricing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been tricing
you will have been tricing
he/she/it will have been tricing
we will have been tricing
you will have been tricing
they will have been tricing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been tricing
you had been tricing
he/she/it had been tricing
we had been tricing
you had been tricing
they had been tricing

Conditional
I would trice
you would trice
he/she/it would trice
we would trice
you would trice
they would trice

Past Conditional
I would have triced
you would have triced
he/she/it would have triced
we would have triced
you would have triced
they would have triced

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	trice - a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, twinkling, wink, blink of an eye, heartbeat, flashmo, moment, second, minute, bit - an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "in a mo"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit"
Verb	1.	trice - raise with a line; "trice a window shade"trice uplift, raise, elevate, get up, bring up - raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
	2.	trice - hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small ropetrice uphoist, wind, lift - raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"

trice

noun moment, second, minute, shake (informal), flash, instant, tick (Brit. informal), twinkling, split second, jiffy (informal), twinkling of an eye, two shakes of a lamb's tail (informal), bat of an eye (informal) She was back in a trice.

trice

nounA very brief time:crack, flash, instant, minute, moment, second, twinkle, twinkling, wink.Informal: jiff, jiffy.Chiefly British: tick.

Translations

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in a flash

Immediately; very quickly; at once. Just call us on this number if you have any problems, and we'll be back in a flash. Don't worry, boss, I'll have this report typed up in a flash!See also: flash

in a trice

At once; nearly immediately or very quickly or suddenly. Our storewide sale will only be available as supplies last, so be sure to hurry—these deals are going to be gone in a trice! When faced with the need to save costs, the management decided the fates of lower-level workers in a trice, without any serious deliberation.See also: trice

in a flash

Fig. quickly; immediately. I'll be there in a flash. It happened in a flash. Suddenly my wallet was gone.See also: flash

in two shakes of a lamb's tail

Fig. in a very short time; very quickly. Jane returned in two shakes of a lamb's tail. Mike was able to solve the problem in two shakes of a lamb's tail.See also: of, shake, tail, two

in a flash

Also, in a jiffy or second or trice . Quickly, immediately. For example, I'll be with you in a flash, or He said he'd be done in a jiffy, or I'll be off the phone in a second, or I felt a drop or two, and in a trice there was a downpour. The first idiom alludes to a flash of lightning and dates from about 1800. The word jiffy, meaning "a short time," is of uncertain origin and dates from the late 1700s (as does the idiom using it); a second, literally one-sixtieth of a minute, has been used vaguely to mean "a very short time" since the early 1800s; and trice originally meant "a single pull at something" and has been used figuratively since the 1500s. See also: flash

in a trice

in a moment; very quickly. In late Middle English, at a trice meant ‘at one pull or tug’, and it soon developed the figurative meaning of ‘in a moment, immediately’. By the late 17th century the original form of the expression had given way to the more familiar in a trice. Trice itself comes from a Middle Dutch verb meaning ‘hoist’.See also: trice

in a ˈtrice

very quickly or suddenly: He was gone in a trice.See also: trice

in a flash

mod. right away; immediately. (see also flash.) Get over here in a flash, or else. See also: flash

in two shakes of a lamb's tail

Instantly, very quickly. Lambs surely were known to be frisky creatures long before, but this expression, often shortened to in two shakes, dates only from the early nineteenth century and originated in America. Mark Twain changed it in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) to “three shakes of a sheep’s tail,” suggesting it was already very well known by the late nineteenth century. A similar cliché, in a trice, which came from a now obsolete word meaning to pull on a rope and alluded to a single pull, is rarely heard today but was extremely common from the eighteenth century on.See also: of, shake, tail, two

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verb hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope

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noun moment

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noun a very brief time

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noun a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

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verb raise with a line

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verb hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope

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