Stake vs Smake - What's the difference?
stake | smake |
A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
* (and other bibliographic particulars),
# A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.
(with definite article) The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned.
A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc.
(Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
* (and other bibliographic particulars), Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
To pierce or wound with a stake.
To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
* (and other bibliographic particulars), (Alexander Pope)
To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
To smack; taste.
*1882 , Bricktop, The trip of the Sardine Club :
* 1893 , Margaret Sidney, Five little Peppers Midway :
* 1918 , Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.), Locomotive engineers journal :
*1922 , Lucy Fox Robins Lang, Mrs. Lucy Robins, War Shadows :
* 2001 , James Joyce, Dubliners :
A smack; taste; scent.
* 1831 , Congressional edition:
* 1856 , Edward Augustus Bond, Giles Fletcher, Sir Jerome Horsey, Russia at the close of the sixteenth century :
As verbs the difference between stake and smake
is that stake is while smake is to smack; taste.As a noun smake is
a smack; taste; scent.stake
English
(wikipedia stake)Noun
(en noun)- We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
- A sharpened stake strong Dryas found.
- Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake .
- The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.
- Every city, or stake, including a chief town and surrounding towns, has its president, with two counselors; and this president has a high council of chosen men.
Synonyms
* (croquet) pegDerived terms
* burn at the stake * pull up stakes * stake of ZionVerb
(stak)- to stake vines or plants.
- I'll stake yon lamb, that near the fountain plays.
- John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to ''stake'' him .
- His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started.
Synonyms
* (put at risk) wager, betDerived terms
* stake a claim * stake outAnagrams
* * * * ----smake
English
Verb
(smak)- Even Bill Bitters could not find it in his heart to say a word against this moisture, and he actually smaked his lips, although he turned away lest someone should see him do it.
- Now, that's good," smaking his lips in a pleased way.
- He smaked his lips in anticipation of the coming treat.
- It is not a nice place to look at, rough you know,” he smiled, and his right eye winked at Frayne: “But the corned beef and cabbage, and the waffles. Mm!” He smaked his lips with desire.
- "And what about the address to the King?" said Mr. Lyons, after drinking and smaking his lips.
Noun
(en noun)- The 15th we came to Hatorask, in thirty-six degrees and a terse, at four fadom, three leagues from the shore, where we might perceive a smake at the place where I left the colony, 1587."
- A smake there is in other things, but small purpose.