Silked vs Siled - What's the difference?
silked | siled |
(silk)
(uncountable) A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
(uncountable) A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers.
That which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.
The gown worn by a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.
(colloquial) A Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.
Made of .
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*:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk -hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
Looking like silk, silken.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 To remove the silk from (corn).
* 2013 , Lynetra T. Griffin, From Whence We Came (page 17)
As verbs the difference between silked and siled
is that silked is (silk) while siled is (sile).silked
English
Verb
(head)silk
English
(wikipedia silk)Noun
(en noun)- The silk thread was barely visible.
- I had a small square of silk , but it wasn't enough to make what I wanted.
Derived terms
* make a silk purse of a sow's ear * silken * silky * silkweaver * silkweaving * silkworm * smooth as silk * take silkSee also
* sericinAdjective
(-)citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
Verb
(en verb)- While we shucked and silked the corn, we talked, sang old nursery rhymes