Stied vs Tied - What's the difference?
stied | tied |
(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.
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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.
(tie)
As a verb stied
is (sty).As a pronoun tied is
yours (that which belongs to you - singular).stied
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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)tied
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Adjective
(en adjective)- As a couple, they are strongly tied to one another.