Instant —used chiefly in the phrase in a trice. See examples of trice used in a sentence. There was no food, water or transport And there was no light. 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 (plural trices) (obsolete, rare) a pulley, a windlass (“form of winch for lifting heavy weights, comprising a cable or rope wound around a cylinder ”). She stared down at him, first impassively, then, in a trice, her blue eyes filled with tears. Definition of trice noun in oxford advanced learner's dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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