Peter vs Alice - What's the difference?
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* 1911 , Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1993, Chapter I
* 1933 , Over the Garden Wall ,Faber and Faber 1933, page 90 ("Boys' Names")
The leading Apostle in the New Testament.
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(biblical) The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, attributed to St. Peter.
popular in England since the Middle Ages .
* 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer), :
* 1871 :
* 1968 (Kurt Vonnegut), Welcome to the Monkey House , Delacorte Press, page xiv:
(cryptography, physics) a placeholder name for the person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.
(Alice Springs), Australia.
* 2002 , Sylvia Lawson, Budgerigars, and Positions of Ignorance'', in ''How Simone de Beauvoir died in Australia: stories and essays ,
* 2003 , Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills, quoting Olive Veverbrants, Critical systemic praxis for social and environmental justice (page 27),
* 2004 , Larry Habegger, Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories (page 7),
A city in North Dakota.
A city in Texas.
As nouns the difference between peter and alice
is that peter is (hypocoristic slang ) the penis while alice is (military|us|initialism) (all-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment).As a verb peter
is (most often used in the phrase peter out) to dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing.peter
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Proper noun
(en proper noun) (Epistle of Peter)- She knew of no Peter , and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.
- What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word, / And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, / And Peter like a piper's tune,
- And I say unto thee, That thou art Peter , and upon this rock I will build my church;
Derived terms
* blue peter * Peter boat * Peter Funk * Peter Pan * Peter pence, Peter's pence * Peter principle * Peter's fish * rob Peter to pay PaulSee also
* Petrock * PetronellaStatistics
* ----alice
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Proper noun
(Alice and Bob) (Alice Springs) (en proper noun)- That Iankin clerk, and my gossib dame Alis , / And I my-self, in-to the feldes wente.
- "My name is Alice , but - "
- "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?"
- "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.
- "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
- She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice'', but she used to deny that she was really an ' Alice . I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream maybe I will find out what her real name was.
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- At that point in my second visit to the Alice', I'd been there only a day. they're ''doing'' Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the ' Alice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.
- In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in Alice .
- "Don't waste yer time in The Alice , get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for."