Struggle vs Stive - What's the difference?
struggle | stive |
Strife, contention, great effort.
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, title= To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for'' or ''against ), to contend.
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, title= To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
(obsolete) A stew.
The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
* 1867 , The British Farmer's Magazine , Volum LII, New Series,
To be stifled or suffocated.
To compress, to cram; to make close and hot; to render stifling.
* Sir H. Wotton
* 1796 , Amelia Simmons, , 1996 Bicentennial Facsimile Edition,
* 1836 , T. S. Davis (editor), Kitchen Poetry'', ''Every Body's Album , Volume 1,
* 1851 , , Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom , 1871,
As nouns the difference between struggle and stive
is that struggle is strife, contention, great effort while stive is (obsolete) a stew.As verbs the difference between struggle and stive
is that struggle is to strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for'' or ''against ), to contend while stive is to be stifled or suffocated.struggle
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground. He worked night and day to supplement it.}}
Verb
(struggl)Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland, passage=England were ponderous with ball in hand, their runners static when taking the ball and their lines obvious, while their front row struggled badly in the scrum.}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . Seestive
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Noun
- (De Colange)
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-roomVerb
(stiv)- His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other.
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;.
page 172,
- And here I mist stay, / In this stived up kitchen to work all day.
page 284,
- "Things are a good deal stived up," answered the Deacon.