Steered vs Steeved - What's the difference?
steered | steeved |
(steer)
The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production.
* 1913 , (Willa Cather),
(informal) A suggestion about a course of action.
To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
* Tennyson
To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm.
* Milton
To direct a group of animals.
To maneuver or manipulate a person or group into a place or course of action.
To direct a conversation.
To conduct oneself; to take or pursue a course of action.
(steeve)
(archaic) To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; said of the bowsprit, etc.
To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve.
(nautical) The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; the steeving.
A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales and similar cargo needing to be packed tightly.
As verbs the difference between steered and steeved
is that steered is (steer) while steeved is (steeve).steered
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(head)Anagrams
*steer
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Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He counted the cattle over and over. It diverted him to speculate as to how much weight each of the steers would probably put on by spring.
Synonyms
* oxHypernyms
* cattleCoordinate terms
* bull, calf, cowEtymology 2
From (etyl) stieran.Noun
(en noun)- I tried to give you the steer , but I guess I didn't get it over. Everybody knew it but you.'' (Mark Hellinger, 1939, ''The Roaring Twenties )
Verb
(en verb)- When planning the boat trip we had completely forgotten that we needed somebody to steer .
- No helmsman steers .
- I find it very difficult to steer a skateboard.
- I steered my steps homeward.
- The boat steers easily.
- Where the wind / Veers oft, as oft [a ship] so steers , and shifts her sail.
- Hume believes that principles of association steer the imagination of artists.