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Stime vs Stile - What's the difference?

stime | stile |

As a noun stime

is (uk|dialect) a slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse.

As an adjective stile is

stylish, smart.

stime

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse.
    • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    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)

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