Stake vs Sweep - What's the difference?
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A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
* (and other bibliographic particulars),
# A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.
(with definite article) The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned.
A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc.
(Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
* (and other bibliographic particulars), Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
To pierce or wound with a stake.
To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
* (and other bibliographic particulars), (Alexander Pope)
To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
To clean (a surface) by means of a motion of a broom or brush.
* (Bible), (w) xiv. 23
To move through an (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
* 2005 , (Lesley Brown) (translator), Sophist by (Plato), :
To search (a place) methodically.
(figuratively) To travel quickly.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=February 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
(curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
(ergative) To move something in a particular motion, as a broom.
(sports) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
(sports) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=
, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*
To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To strike with a long stroke.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(nautical) To draw or drag something over.
To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
The person who steers a dragon boat.
A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
A chimney sweep.
A search (typically for bugs [electronic listening devices]).
(cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
A single action of sweeping.
Violent and general destruction.
(metalworking) A movable templet for making moulds, in loam moulding.
(card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
* Sir Walter Scott
A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
(refining, obsolete) The almond furnace.
A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
(in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
As verbs the difference between stake and sweep
is that stake is while sweep is to clean (a surface) by means of a motion of a broom or brush.As a noun sweep is
the person who steers a dragon boat.stake
English
(wikipedia stake)Noun
(en noun)- We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
- A sharpened stake strong Dryas found.
- Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake .
- The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.
- Every city, or stake, including a chief town and surrounding towns, has its president, with two counselors; and this president has a high council of chosen men.
Synonyms
* (croquet) pegDerived terms
* burn at the stake * pull up stakes * stake of ZionVerb
(stak)- to stake vines or plants.
- I'll stake yon lamb, that near the fountain plays.
- John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to ''stake'' him .
- His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started.
Synonyms
* (put at risk) wager, betDerived terms
* stake a claim * stake outAnagrams
* * * * ----sweep
English
Verb
- to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney
- I will sweep it with the besom of destruction.
- [H]as the course of the argument so accustomed you to agreeing that you were swept by it into a ready assent?
Arsenal 2-1 Everton, passage=Everton took that disputed lead in a moment that caused anger to sweep around the Emirates. }}
- The wind sweeps the snow from the hills.
- The flooded river swept away the wooden dam.
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‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
- Their long descending train, / With rubies edged and sapphires, swept the plain.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- And like a peacock sweep along his tail.
- Wake into voice each silent string, / And sweep the sounding lyre.
- to sweep the bottom of a river with a net
- to sweep the heavens with a telescope
Derived terms
* sweeper * sweep across * sweep someone off their feet * sweep something under the rug * sweep up * sweepyNoun
(en noun)- Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup.
- the sweep of an epidemic disease
- the sweep''' of a door; the '''sweep of the eye
- the road which makes a small sweep
