Slaved vs Staved - What's the difference?
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(slave)
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 drudge; one who labours like a slave.
An abject person; a wretch.
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.
To work hard.
To enslave.
To place a device under the control of another.
* 2005 , Simon Millward, Fast Guide to Cubase SX (page 403)
(stave)
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
(label) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
A staff or walking stick.
To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Often with in .
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To push, as with a staff. With off .
* South
To delay by force or craft; to drive away. Often with off .
* Tennyson
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
To furnish with staves or rundles.
To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
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As verbs the difference between slaved and staved
is that slaved is past tense of slave while staved is past tense of stave.slaved
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*slave
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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 slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition
- Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd/ Mine innocent child? Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing.
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 slaverySee also
* chattel * indentured servant * * (Slavery)Verb
(slav)- I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
- (Marston)
- to slave a hard disk
- Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation
References
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Anagrams
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ----staved
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Verb
(head)stave
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Noun
(en noun)- Let us chant a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.
Verb
- to stave in a cask
- 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.
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- The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.
- to stave off the execution of a project
- And answered with such craft as women use, / Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance / That breaks upon them perilously.
- All the wine in the city has been staved .
- (Knolles)
- to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run