different between stake vs paling

English

Etymology

From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”). Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste?k/
• Homophone: steak
• Rhymes: -e?k

Noun

stake (plural stakes)

1. 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.

   We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
2. (croquet) 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.
3. 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.
4. (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.

   Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
5. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
6. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
7. 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 hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
8. (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
   • 1910, Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge

     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): peg

Derived terms

• Stakeford
• stakeholder

Related terms

• burn at the stake
• pull up stakes
• stake of Zion
• table stakes
• (wager or pledge): at stake

Translations

Verb

stake (third-person singular simple present stakes, present participle staking, simple past and past participle staked)

1. (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.

2. (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
   • 2014, A. J. Gallant, Dracula: Hearts of Stone

     “You ladies happen to notice what happened to this vampire? This just happened. Did you see who staked him?”

3. (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
4. (transitive) To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.

Synonyms

• (put at risk): bet, hazard, wager

Derived terms

• stake a claim
• stake out

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “stake”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Keast, Keats, Skate, kates, ketas, skate, steak, takes, teaks

Dutch

Verb

stake

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of steken
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of staken

Anagrams

• kaste

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English staca, from Proto-Germanic *stakô.

Alternative forms

• staak, stak, stack

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta?k(?)/

Noun

stake (plural stakes)

1. A stake; wood put in the ground as a marker or support.
2. A fencepost; a stake used in concert to form a barrier.
3. A branch or bough; an extension of a tree.
4. A stave or stick; a cut (and often shaped) piece of wood.
5. (rare) A prickle or splint.
6. (rare) A metal bar or pole.
7. (rare) A stabbing feeling.

Derived terms

• staken
• stakyng

Descendants

• English: stake
• Scots: stak, staik

References

• “st?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-12-02.

Etymology 2

From the noun.

Verb

stake

1. Alternative form of staken

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish staki, from Old Norse staki, from Proto-Germanic *stakô, from Proto-Indo-European *steg-.

Noun

stake c

1. (short for ljusstake) candlestick
2. (vulgar) erection
3. (vulgar) erect penis
4. (slang, uncountable) balls; courage, assertiveness

Declension

Related terms

• ljusstake
• adventsljusstake

Anagrams

• steka

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?l??/

Verb

paling

1. present participle of pale

Noun

paling (plural palings)

1. A pointed stick used to make a fence.
   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 20, p. 117,^[2]

     The boys continued hitting the tennis ball with pailings snatched from a fence […]

   • 1997, Richard Flanagan, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Grove Press, 2014, Chapter 6,^[3]

     The smell of the damp eucalypt palings that clad the walls exhaling their aromatic resin into the house, mingling with the fragrance of the myrtle burning in the fireplace.

2. A fence made of palings.
   • 1789, Alderman Le Mesurier^[4], addressing the House of Commons, in The Parliamentary Register,^[5] London: John Debrett, Volume 26, p. 172,^[6]

     Gentlemen must have observed that many of the nurserymen’s plantations were wide and extensive, some of them covering several acres; and that their palings and fences were for the most part low, and might be so weak and out of repair, as to afford a very insufficient security against the inroads of robbers and spoilers.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), Chapter 12, page 142,^[7]

     The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.

3. (Caribbean) A fence made of galvanized sheeting.
   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, London: André Deutsch, Part One, Chapter 3, p. 118,^[8]

     He worked badly. He had to paint a large sign on a corrugated iron paling. Doing letters on a corrugated surface was bad enough; to paint a cow and a gate, as he had to, was maddening.

Alternative forms

• pailing

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Galpin

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch paling, from Middle Dutch paeldinc, from Old Dutch *pathelink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??.l??/

Noun

paling (plural palinge, diminutive palinkie)

1. eel

Synonyms

• aal

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch paeldinc, from Old Dutch *pathelink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?.l??/
• Hyphenation: pa?ling
• Rhymes: -a?l??

Noun

paling m (plural palingen, diminutive palinkje n)

1. eel

Synonyms

• aal

Derived terms

• palingvisser
• palingvisserij

Descendants

• Afrikaans: paling

Malay

Pronunciation

Noun

paling

1. majority

Synonyms

• para

Adjective

paling (Jawi spelling ??????, plural paling-paling)

1. top; greatest, super
2. mainstream

Adverb

paling (Jawi spelling ??????)

1. most, very

Synonyms

• terlalu
• sungguh

Further reading

• “paling” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.