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Spice vs Spire - What's the difference?

spice | spire |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between spice and spire

is that spice is (obsolete) species; kind while spire is (obsolete) to breathe.

As nouns the difference between spice and spire

is that spice is (countable|uncountable) plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food or spice can be (nonce word) while spire is or spire can be one of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.

As verbs the difference between spice and spire

is that spice is to add spice or spices to while spire is of a seed, plant etc: to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate or spire can be (obsolete) to breathe.

spice

English

(wikipedia spice)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) espice (modern .

Noun

  • (countable, uncountable) Plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
  • (figurative, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.
  • (uncountable, Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
  • (obsolete) Species; kind.
  • * Wyclif Bible, 1 Thessalonians v. 22
  • Abstain you from all evil spice .
  • * Sir T. Elyot
  • Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices . The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative.
    Hyponyms
    * See also
    Hypernyms
    * seasoning
    Coordinate terms
    * herb
    Derived terms
    * allspice * five-spice powder * herbs and spices * spiceberry * spicebush * spicery * spice up * spiciness * spicy * spicy tooth * variety is the spice of life

    Verb

    (spic)
  • To add spice or spices to.
  • Derived terms
    * spice up

    Etymology 2

    Formed by analogy with (mice) as the plural of (mouse) by .

    Noun

    (head)
  • (nonce word)
  • References

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    Anagrams

    * English irregular plurals ----

    spire

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch spier, German Spier, (Spiere), Danish spir, Norwegian spir, Swedish spira.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
  • * 1913 ,
  • Clara had pulled a button from a hollyhock spire , and was breaking it to get the seeds.
  • A sharp or tapering point.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=1 citation , passage=A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.}}
  • A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
  • The spire of the church rose high above the town.
  • The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
  • * Shakespeare
  • the spire and top of praises
  • (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
  • Verb

    (spir)
  • Of a seed, plant etc.: to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
  • In gentle Ladies breste and bounteous race / Of woman kind it fayrest Flowre doth spyre , / And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desyre.
  • * Mortimer
  • It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms.
  • To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) spirer, and its source, (etyl) .

    Verb

    (spir)
  • (obsolete) To breathe.
  • (Shenstone)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) spire.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
  • A spiral.
  • (Dryden)
  • (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
  • Anagrams

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