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Stile vs Stive - What's the difference?

stile | stive |

As an adjective stile

is stylish, smart.

As a noun stive is

(obsolete) a stew.

As a verb stive is

to be stifled or suffocated.

stile

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(wikipedia stile) (en noun)
  • A set of steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • 'Twas very true what Greening said; for of a summer evening I would take the path that led up Weatherbeech Hill, behind the Manor; both because 'twas a walk that had a good prospect in itself, and also a sweet charm for me, namely, the hope of seeing Grace Maskew. And there I often sat upon the stile that ends the path and opens on the down, and watched the old half-ruined house below; and sometimes saw white-frocked Gracie walking on the terrace in the evening sun, and sometimes in returning passed her window near enough to wave a greeting.
  • A vertical component of a panel or frame, such as that of a door or window.
  • A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style.
    • (Moxon)
  • (obsolete) A mode of composition; a style.
  • * Bunyan
    • May I not write in such a stile as this?

    Related terms

    * turnstile

    External links

    * ("stile" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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    stive

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) A stew.
  • The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
    • (De Colange)
  • * 1867 , The British Farmer's Magazine , Volum LII, New Series, page 231,
    • The removal of the heated air, steam, stive , and flour from the millstones, is a proposition which does not appear to be more than sufficiently well understood.

    Derived terms

    * stive-box, stive-room

    Verb

    (stiv)
  • To be stifled or suffocated.
  • To compress, to cram; to make close and hot; to render stifling.
  • * Sir H. Wotton
    • His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other.
  • * 1796 , Amelia Simmons, , 1996 Bicentennial Facsimile Edition, page 64,
    • Let your cucumbers be ?mall, fre?h gathered, and free from ?pots; then make a pickle of ?alt and water, ?trong enough to bear an egg; boil the pickle and ?kim it well, and then pour it upon your cucumbers, and ?tive them down for twenty four hours;.
  • * 1836 , T. S. Davis (editor), Kitchen Poetry'', ''Every Body's Album , Volume 1, page 172,
    • And here I mist stay, / In this stived up kitchen to work all day.
  • * 1851 , , Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom , 1871, page 284,
    • "Things are a good deal stived up," answered the Deacon.
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