Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
Used in a Sentence
trice
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for trice.
Editorial note
Show me where the ad is, you'll have my CV in a trice.
Examples17
Definitions3
Parts of speech2
Quick take
Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of trice gathered in one view.
A surname.
(transitive) To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for trice.
noun
Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
See also: instant, jiffy, twinkling, split-second, trice-up
noun
A surname.
See also: instant, jiffy, twinkling, split-second, trice-up
verb
(transitive) To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.
See also: instant, jiffy, twinkling, split-second, trice-up
Example sentences
Show me where the ad is, you'll have my CV in a trice.
A few other typos (first sentence, though instead of thought, trice instead of thrice, simlpe instead of simple).
If you want to stay in a large city, in a relatively safe area, you'd need trice that sum.
Even for elite athletes it would be maximum once or trice per week, depending on the mesocycle.
Yes, anecdotally people tell stories how they can code twice/trice/ten times faster, or how they atumated their whole workflow or replaced support with LLM.
Causing a trice a loss: the time taken to build it.
Worth visiting twice or trice a year, or even more frequently.
You don't want to mine bitcoin or your stock market rocket science on a mobile device, mainly due to burning through the battery in a trice.
What, you replaced the screen twice and the keyboard trice?
My 'principle' for DRY is: twice is fine, trice is worth an abstraction (if you think it has a small to moderate chance to happen again).
Should be the etymology of trice (but isn't).
Now in your infinite and sagacious wisdom you've told us all how she should obviously have been able to debug this problem in a trice using your superior methods.
Quote examples
When I told it to complete the text "Obie Trice, real name no gimmicks", it said I'm sorry I can't reproduce the lyrics to Without Me by Eminem.
The funny thing is that I live in Europe and we work far less hours, have trice the PTO and don’t even know that “sick days” are (if you’re sick you stay home).
However, Bitcoin is also not a solution because there is no point in owning Bitcoin if you fell trice out of a Russian window or are sentenced to a labour camp or to the death penalty in China for "fraudulus activities“.
Proper noun examples
Trice is married to an editorial lead at The Telegraph and receives funding from Lloyds.
And offered to tell me more about Obie Trice.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use trice in a sentence?
Show me where the ad is, you'll have my CV in a trice.
What does trice mean?
Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
What part of speech is trice?
trice is commonly used as noun, verb.