Shired vs Sired - What's the difference?
shired | sired |
(shire)
Former administrative area of Britain; a county.
(UK, colloquial) The general area in which a person lives, used in the context of travel within the UK.
A rural or outer suburban local government area of Australia.
A shire horse.
To (re]])constitute as one or more shires or [[county, counties.
* 1985 , Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy , page 291:
* 2012 , James Lydon, The Making of Ireland: From Ancient Times to the Present (ISBN 1134981503), page 160:
(sire)
A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.
(obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
* Shelley
Of a male: to procreate; to father, beget.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 6:
As verbs the difference between shired and sired
is that shired is past tense of shire while sired is past tense of sire.shired
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(head)shire
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Noun
(wikipedia shire) (en noun)- Yorkshire is the largest shire in England.
- When are you coming back to the shire ?
Verb
(shir)- Although he still managed formally to shire the province in the summer and autumn of 1585, his plan to establish a presidential government and complete the integration of Ulster into English Ireland met with royal indifference.
- The province was shired into nine counties,
- County Longford was shired in 1586
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*sire
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Noun
(en noun)- And raise his issue, like a loving sire .
- [He] was the sire of an immortal strain.
Verb
(sir)- In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.