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Slave vs Stave - What's the difference?

slave | stave |

In intransitive terms the difference between slave and stave

is that slave is to work hard while stave is to walk or move rapidly.

In transitive terms the difference between slave and stave

is that slave is to place a device under the control of another while stave is to delay by force or craft; to drive away. Often with off.

As a proper noun Slavé

is alternative form of Slavey|lang=en.

slave

English

Alternative forms

: * ** sclaue * ** sclaue ** sclave * ** sclaue ** sklaw ** sklaue ** sklave : * ** slaif ** slaue ** slave (modern spelling developed) * ** slaue ** slave (whenceforth the modern spelling predominated)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is the property of another person and whose labor and also whose life often is subject to the owner's volition.
  • A person who is legally obliged by prior contract (oral or written) to work for another, with contractually limited rights to bargain; an indentured servant.
  • One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders to something.
    • a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition
  • A drudge; one who labours like a slave.
  • An abject person; a wretch.
    • Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd/ Mine innocent child? Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing.
  • A person who is forced against his/her will to perform, for another person or other persons, sexual acts or other personal services on a regular or continuing basis.
  • (engineering) A device that is controlled by another device.

    • Derived terms

    (terms derived from slave) * antislavery * bondslave * enslave * enslavement * enslaver * no slave to fashion * postslavery * sex slave * sexual slavery * slaveboy * slave code * slavedom * slave driver, slave-driver * Slave Dynasty * slave-girl, slavegirl * slaveholder * slaveholding * slave labour * slaveless * slavelike * slavemaster * slaveowner * slaver * slave to fashion * slavery * slave ship * slave trade * slavey * slavish * wage slave * white slave * white slaver * white slavery

    See also

    * chattel * indentured servant * * (Slavery)

    Verb

    (slav)
  • To work hard.
    • I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
  • To enslave.
    • (Marston)
  • To place a device under the control of another.
    • to slave a hard disk
  • * 2005 , Simon Millward, Fast Guide to Cubase SX (page 403)
    • Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation

    References

    * August 2, 2004 , "EE Times: Beware 'zombie' clauses * Notes:

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ----

    stave

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
  • One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
  • (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
  • * Wordsworth
    • Let us chant a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.
  • (label) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
  • A staff or walking stick.

    • Verb

  • To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Often with in .
    • to stave in a cask
  • * 1851 ,
    • Be careful in the hunt, ye mates. Don’t stave the boats needlessly, ye harpooneers; good white cedar plank is raised full three per cent within the year.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1914 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burrows , title=The Mucker , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=…for the jagged butt of the fallen mast was dashing against the ship's side with such vicious blows that it seemed but a matter of seconds ere it would stave a hole in her. }}
  • To push, as with a staff. With off .
  • * South
    • The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.
  • To delay by force or craft; to drive away. Often with off .
    • to stave off the execution of a project
  • * Tennyson
    • And answered with such craft as women use, / Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance / That breaks upon them perilously.
  • To burst in pieces by striking against something.
  • To walk or move rapidly.
  • To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
  • * Sandys
    • All the wine in the city has been staved .
  • To furnish with staves or rundles.
    • (Knolles)
  • To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
    • to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run

    Derived terms

    * stave in * stave off

    Anagrams

    * English contranyms ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Verb

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