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Sted vs Sued - What's the difference?

sted | sued |

As a noun sted

is town.

As a verb sued is

(sue).

sted

English

Alternative forms

* stead, stedd

Noun

(en noun)
  • * 1500 , Le Bone Florence of Rome
    • They dud wyth hym as wyth þe dedd; They beryed hym in a ryall stedd .
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser:
    • And false Duessa in her sted had borne
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1927 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Hélène Adeline Guerber , title=Myths of Greece and Rome , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Library of Alexandria , isbn=9781465523464 , page= , passage=But in the gloomy court was rais'd a bed, / Stuff'd with black plumes, and on an ebon sted }}

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (short for) instead of
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date=2010-02-22 , year= , first= , last= , author= , authorlink= , title=Hong Kong rejoices over Berlin film prize , site=Long Island Press citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-07-25 , passage=(This version CORRECTS Corrects title of movie to ‘Echoes of the Rainbow’ sted ‘Echoes of a Rainbow.’) }}
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date=2010-05-10 , year= , first= , last= , author=Vicki Smith, Holbrook Mohr , authorlink= , title=Gulf Oil Spill: Unemployed Fishermen Struggling To Get By , site=Huffington Post citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-07-25 , passage=Eds: CORRECTS name of city to 'Pass Christian' sted 'Port'. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Video. }}

    References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia Supplement, Vol. XII, Page 1269, sted, steddy ----

    sued

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sue)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    sue

    English

    Verb

  • To follow.
  • * , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:
    • And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.iv:
    • though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd , / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
  • (label) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
  • (label) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
  • To clean (the beak, etc.).
  • To leave high and dry on shore.
  • To court.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "sue")

    Derived terms

    * sue for peace

    Related terms

    * ensue * suit

    Anagrams

    * * ----