Hide vs Pike - What's the difference?
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To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
* 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
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, title= (countable) (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.
(countable) The skin of an animal.
(obsolete, or, derogatory) The human skin.
* Shakespeare
(uncountable, informal, usually, US) One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
* 1957 , (Ayn Rand), Francisco d'Anconia's speech in (Atlas Shrugged):
To beat with a whip made from hide.
* 1891 , Robert Weir, J. Moray Brown, Riding
A medieval land measure equal to the amount of land that could sustain one free family; usually 100 acres. Forty hides equalled a barony.
A very long thrusting spear used two-handed by infantry both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a counter-measure against cavalry assaults. The pike is not intended to be thrown.
* 1790 , , Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
A sharp point, such as that of the weapon.
Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox'', especially the northern pike, ''Esox lucius .
A turnpike.
A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe, found in old-fashioned footwear.
* 1861 , The comprehensive history of England Vol. 1
* 1904 , George Nicholls, A History of the English Poor Law in Connection with the State of the Country and the Condition of the People
(diving) A dive position with knees straight and a tight bend at the hips.
* 2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 167:
* 2008 , , China wins first diving medal at Beijing Olympics Aug 10 2008 [http://www.tsn.ca/olympics/story/?id=245859&lid=sublink05&lpos=headlines_olympics]
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A hayfork.
(obsolete) A pick.
A large haycock.
To attack, prod, or injure someone with a pike.
To quit or back out of a promise.
* 2002 , Sylvia Lawson, How Simone De Beauvoir Died in Australia ,
* 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push ,
* 2008 , Chris Pash, The Last Whale , Fremantle Press, Australia,
A mountain peak or summit.
*, II.ii.3:
*:The pike of Teneriffe how high it is? 70 miles? or 50, as Patricius holds? or 9, as Snellius demonstrates in his Eratosthenes ?
As nouns the difference between hide and pike
is that hide is (countable) (mainly british) a covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them or hide can be (countable) the skin of an animal or hide can be a medieval land measure equal to the amount of land that could sustain one free family; usually 100 acres forty hides equalled a barony while pike is drop.As a verb hide
is to put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight or hide can be to beat with a whip made from hide.hide
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hiden, huden, from (etyl) . Related to (l) and (l).Verb
- The blind man, whom he had not been able to cure with the pomade, had gone back to the hill of Bois-Guillaume, where he told the travellers of the vain attempt of the druggist, to such an extent, that Homais when he went to town hid himself behind the curtains of the "Hirondelle" to avoid meeting him.
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William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
Synonyms
* (transitive) conceal, hide away, secrete * (intransitive) go undercover, hide away, hide oneself, hide out, lie lowAntonyms
* (transitive) disclose, expose, reveal, show, uncover * (intransitive) reveal oneself, show oneselfDerived terms
* hide and seek / hide-and-seek * hideaway * hideout * hide one's light under a bushel * hider * one can run but one can't hideNoun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) , 'to cover'. More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide !
- The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of money and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide —as I think he will.
Synonyms
* (animal skin) pelt, skin * (land measure) carucateDerived terms
* cowhide * damn your hide * have someone's hide * rawhide * tan someone's hideVerb
- He ran last week, and he was hided , and he was out on the day before yesterday, and here he is once more, and he knows he's got to run and to be hided again.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) hide, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)pike
English
(wikipedia pike)Etymology 1
(etyl) ultimately a variant form of pick, with meaning narrowed. Cognate with Dutch piek, dialectal German Peik, Norwegian pik. pique.Noun
(en noun)- Each had a small ax in the foreangle of his saddle, and a pike about fourteen feet long, the weapon with which he charged;
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- (Charles Dickens)
- During the earlier part of this period, the long pike disappeared from the shoe, but in the later part it returned in greater longitude than ever.
- Thus the statute of , which forbade the fine gentlemen of those times, under the degree of a lord, to wear pikes upon their shoes or boots of more than two inches in length, was a law that savoured of oppression, because, however ridiculous the fashion might appear, the restraining of it by pecuniary penalties would serve no purpose of common utility.
- She sprang into the air and jack-knifed into a clumsy pike before following her hands into the water.
- Guo and Wu took a big lead after the second dive, a back dive in pike position, which the judges awarded three perfect tens for synchronization.
- (Tusser)
- (Raymond)
- (Wright)
- (Halliwell)
Synonyms
* ''see: northern pikeDerived terms
* come down the pike * garpike * pikehead * pikestaff * pikemanVerb
(pik)- Don't pike on me like you did last time!
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- —But Camus piked out, said Carole. Sartre and that lot got pissed off with him, he stood off from the war, he wouldn?t oppose it.
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- Holman accepted the challenge while Norton ‘piked out’; nevertheless Holman won Cootamundra against a strong candidate.
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- If they didn?t go ahead, it would look like they had piked , backed down.