Stave vs Dig - What's the difference?
stave | dig |
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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(label) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up .
(label) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
(label) To investigate, to research, often followed by out'' or ''up .
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An archeological investigation.
(US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
A thrust; a poke.
(slang) To understand or show interest in.
(slang) To appreciate, or like.
As nouns the difference between stave and dig
is that 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 while dig is ditch, dyke.As a verb stave
is to break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst often with in .stave
English
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
Derived terms
* stave in * stave offAnagrams
* English contranyms ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Verb
Derived terms
*References
*dig
English
(wikipedia dig)Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl) (m), itself a borrowing of the same Germanic root (from (etyl) (m)). More at ditch, dike.Verb
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- You should have seen children dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls.
Derived terms
* dig in * dig into * dig over * dig out * dig upNoun
(en noun)- He guffawed and gave me a dig in the ribs after telling his latest joke.
Synonyms
* (archaeological investigation) excavationEtymology 2
From (African American Vernacular English); due to lack of writing of slave speech, etymology is .Random House Unabridged, 2001 Others do not propose a distinct etymology, instead considering this a semantic shift of the existing English term (compare dig in/dig into'').eg: OED, "dig", from ME vt ''diggenVerb
- You dig ?
- Baby, I dig you.