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Siezing vs Seizing - What's the difference?

siezing | seizing |

As verbs the difference between siezing and seizing

is that siezing is while seizing is .

As a noun seizing is

a type of lashing or binding by a small cord.

As an adjective seizing is

that seizes the attention; impressive.

siezing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Usage notes

    * This is an exception to the I before E rule.

    seizing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a type of lashing or binding by a small cord
  • *1851 ,
  • *:Cut your seizings and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!”
  • *:Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him.
  • # Such lashing used to temporarily immobilize the ends of a rope to prevent a knot from slipping or collapsing.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That seizes the attention; impressive.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 45:
  • *:It is a world of seizing visual beauty, of shimmering whites and yellows that shift to glowing apricot, pink and violet with the sinking of the saturant sun.