The difference between Prance and Rear
When used as nouns, prance means the act of prancing, whereas rear means the back or hindmost part.
When used as verbs, prance means to spring forward on the hind legs, whereas rear means to bring up to maturity, as offspring.
Rear is also adverb with the meaning: early.
Rear is also adjective with the meaning: underdone.
check bellow for the other definitions of Prance and Rear
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Prance as a verb (of a horse):
To spring forward on the hind legs.
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Prance as a verb (colloquial, figuratively):
To strut about in a showy manner.
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Prance as a noun (uncommon):
The act of prancing.
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Rear as a verb (transitive):
To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
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Rear as a verb (transitive, said of people towards animals):
To breed and raise.
Examples:
"usex The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years."
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Rear as a verb (intransitive):
To rise up on the hind legs
Examples:
"usex The horse was shocked, and thus reared."
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Rear as a verb (intransitive, usually with "up"):
To get angry.
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Rear as a verb (intransitive):
To rise high above, tower above.
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Rear as a verb (transitive, literary):
To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
Examples:
"Poverty reared its ugly head.'' gloss appeared, started, began to have an effect"
"The monster slowly reared its head."
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Rear as a verb (transitive, rare):
To construct by building; to set up
Examples:
"to rear defenses or houses"
"to rear one government on the ruins of another."
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Rear as a verb (transitive, rare):
To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
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Rear as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To lift and take up.
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Rear as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To rouse; to strip up.
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Rear as a verb (transitive):
To move; stir.
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Rear as a verb (transitive, of geese):
To carve.
Examples:
"Rere that goose!"
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Rear as a verb (regional, obsolete):
To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)
Examples:
"He healeth the blind and he reareth to life the dead. (Speculum Sacerdotale c. 15th century)"
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Rear as an adjective (now, _, chiefly, _, dialectal):
Underdone; nearly raw.
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Rear as an adjective (chiefly, _, US):
Rare.
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Rear as an adjective:
Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost
Examples:
"usex the rear'' rank of a company"
"usex sit in the rear'' seats of a car"
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Rear as an adverb (British, dialect):
early; soon
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Rear as a noun:
The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
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Rear as a noun (military):
Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
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Rear as a noun (anatomy):
The buttocks, a creature's bottom
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Rear as a verb:
To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
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Rear as a verb (transitive, vulgar, British):
To sodomize