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Coctile vs Octile - What's the difference?

coctile | octile |

As an adjective coctile

is made by.

As a noun octile is

(statistics) any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into eight equally numerous subsets.

coctile

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Made by .
  • * 1885 , Samuel Fallows, The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language , page 130/3, “Coctive”:
    • Coctive …Made by baking or exposing to heat, as a brick; coctile .
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  • #* 1705 , Willem Bosman (author; translator unknown), A New and Accurate De?cription of the Coa?t of Guinea , letter XXI, page 437:
  • The?e Corals…are made of a ?ort of pale red Coctile Earth or Stone.
  • #* 1851 , “The Age of Honesty”, article VIII in The Dublin Review XXXI, ? lxii, page 599:
  • The excavations continued, and soon a most singularly shaped coctile vessel, or terra cotta urn …was brought to light.
  • #* 1874 , J.D. Beglar and A.C.L. Carlleyle, Delhi , page 189:
  • Now, these tiles are of the coctile'' kind, or which have been ''baked red like bricks or common red “roofing tiles.”
  • #* 1995 , Paolo Favole, Squares in Contemporary Architecture , page 71:
  • An oval platform of stone…stands out inside a perimeter frame of beige coctile brick with a fishbone formation.
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  • #* 1887 , Wallace’s Monthly XIII, page 365:
  • Was ever coctile product more appetizing to hungry mortals! The good Dr. Talmage…acknowledges a heavy debt to good bread as a stimulant to an overdrained brain.
  • Built of baked .
  • * 1842 , Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine IX, page 682:
    • From the tiles and skylights of a coctile edifice.
  • * 1850 , David Urquhart, The Pillars of Hercules II, book iv, chapter 2, page 145:
    • Beyond this region spread dead levels, which…resembled the sea. From the city’s lofty walls stretched on all sides…flatness and luxuriance. What, then, could taste divine and power accomplish…to transport thither a primeval forest, and to pile up coctile mountains to place it on. Such was the design of the Hanging Gardens.
  • * 1996 , Douglas D. Burleigh and Jane W.M. Spicer, Proceedings of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers'' MMDCCLXVI: ''Thermosense XVIII, page 58:
    • The “coctile ” texture of the wall is visible where there are lacks of plaster and elements of stone appear too.

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    References

    * , A Popular and Complete English Dictionary I (1848), page 250, “Coctile” * '' II (C; 1st ed., 1893), page 580/3, “Coctile, ''a. ” * OED'' (2nd ed., 1989), “ coctile, ''a. ” ----

    octile

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into eight equally numerous subsets.
  • (by extension) A subset thus obtained.

    • Synonyms

    * octant