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Stave vs Avoid - What's the difference?

stave | avoid |

As verbs the difference between stave and avoid

is that stave is to break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst often with in while avoid is to keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.

As a noun stave

is 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.

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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    avoid

    English

    Verb

  • To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
  • :I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
  • *1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 4:
  • *:The devyllsayde unto hym: all these will I geve the, iff thou wilt faull doune and worship me. Then sayde Jesus unto hym. Avoyde Satan.
  • *Milton
  • *:What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid ?
  • *Macaulay
  • *:He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= England 1-0 Ukraine , passage=England could have met world and European champions Spain but that eventuality was avoided by Sweden's 2-0 win against France, and Rooney's first goal in a major tournament since scoring twice in the 4-2 victory over Croatia in Lisbon at Euro 2004.}}
  • (obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
  • :(Wyclif)
  • To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
  • *Spenser
  • *:How can these grants of the king's be avoided ?
  • (legal) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
  • :(Blackstone)
  • (obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
  • :(Sir Thomas Browne)
  • (obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
  • *:
  • *:Anone they encountred to gyders / and he with the reed shelde smote hym soo hard that he bare hym ouer to the erthe / There with anone came another Knyght of the castel / and he was smyten so sore that he auoyded his fadel
  • *Francis Bacon
  • *:Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room.
  • (obsolete) To get rid of.
  • :(Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
  • (obsolete) To become void or vacant.

    • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

    Derived terms

    * avoid like the plague

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