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Stied vs Tied - What's the difference?

stied | tied |

As a verb stied

is (sty).

As a pronoun tied is

yours (that which belongs to you - singular).

stied

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sty)
  • Anagrams

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    sty

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (sties)
  • A pen or enclosure for swine.
  • (figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
  • * Milton
  • To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty .
    Synonyms
    * (enclosure for swine) pigpen, pigsty * (messy or dirty place) hovel, pigsty

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To place in, or as if in, a sty.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), .

    Alternative forms

    * stee, stie, stigh

    Verb

  • (label) To ascend, rise up, climb.
  • * 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Isaiah LIII:
  • And he schal stie as a ?erde bifor him, and as a roote fro þirsti lond.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
  • 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)
  • A ladder.
  • Etymology 3

    Probably a .

    Alternative forms

    * stye

    Noun

    (sties)
  • (label) An inflammation of the eyelid.
  • tied

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Connected.
  • As a couple, they are strongly tied to one another.
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  • (sports) That resulted in a tie.
  • * Only two tied Test matches have occurred in the 2,000 Tests played since 1877.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (tie)
  • Anagrams

    * diet * edit * tide ----