Stied vs Spied - What's the difference?
stied | spied |
(sty)
A pen or enclosure for swine.
(figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
* Milton
To place in, or as if in, a sty.
To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
(label) To ascend, rise up, climb.
* 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Isaiah LIII:
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
A ladder.
(label) An inflammation of the eyelid.
(spy)
A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To act as a spy.
To spot; to catch sight of.
* Jonathan Swift
* Latimer
To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
* Shakespeare
To explore; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
* Bible, Numbers xxi. 32
barf (US), vomit, spew
to barf (US), throw up, vomit, spew (also figurative )
As verbs the difference between stied and spied
is that stied is (sty) while spied is (spy).stied
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Verb
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*sty
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(sties)- To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty .
Synonyms
* (enclosure for swine) pigpen, pigsty * (messy or dirty place) hovel, pigstyVerb
(en-verb)- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), .Alternative forms
* stee, stie, stighVerb
- And he schal stie as a ?erde bifor him, and as a roote fro þirsti lond.
- The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].
Derived terms
* *Noun
(sties)Etymology 3
Probably a .Alternative forms
* styeNoun
(sties)spied
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Verb
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* *spy
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Noun
(spies)Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
Derived terms
* spy ringVerb
- During the Cold War, Russia and America would each spy on each other for recon.
- I think I can spy that hot guy coming over here.
- One in reading, skipped over all sentences where he spied a note of admiration.
- Look about with your eyes; spy what things are to be reformed in the church of England.
- It is my nature's plague / To spy into abuses.
- Moses sent to spy Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof.