different between stead vs snead
stead
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: st?d, IPA(key): /st?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Etymology 1
From Middle English sted, stede, from Old English stede, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh?tis. Cognate with German Stadt, Gothic ???????????????????? (staþs, “place”), Danish and Swedish stad, Norwegian Bokmål sted, Scots steid, Dutch stad, Yiddish ?????? (shtot). See stasis.
Noun
stead (plural steads)
- (obsolete) A place, or spot, in general. [10th-16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene, II:
- For he ne wonneth in one certaine stead, / But restlesse walketh all the world around […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene, II:
- (obsolete) A place where a person normally rests; a seat. [10th-18thc.]
- 1633, P. Fletcher, Purple Island:
- There now the hart, fearlesse of greyhound, feeds, / And loving pelican in safety breeds; / There shrieking satyres fill the people's emptie steads.
- 1633, P. Fletcher, Purple Island:
- (obsolete) An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc. [13th-16thc.]
- (obsolete) An estate, a property with its grounds; a farm. [14th-19thc.]
- 1889, H. Rider Haggard, Allan's Wife:
- But of course I could not do this by myself, so I took a Hottentot—a very clever man when he was not drunk—who lived on the stead, into my confidence.
- 1889, H. Rider Haggard, Allan's Wife:
- (obsolete) The frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead. [15th-19thc.]
- 1693, John Dryden, Baucis and Philemon
- The genial bed / Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead.
- 1693, John Dryden, Baucis and Philemon
- (in phrases, now literary) The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor. [from 15thc.]
- 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion:
- She was so wretched and so vehement, complained so much of injustice in being expected to go away instead of Anne; Anne, who was nothing to Louisa, while she was her sister, and had the best right to stay in Henrietta's stead!
- 1961, Muriel Saint Clare Byrne, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country, page 285:
- His nurse had told him all about changelings, and how the little people would always try to steal a beautiful human child out of its cradle and put in its stead one of their own ailing, puking brats […]
- 2011, "Kin selection", The Economist, 31 March:
- Had Daniel Ortega not got himself illegally on to this year’s ballot to seek a third term, his wife might have run in his stead.
- 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion:
- (figuratively) An emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases). [from 15thc.]
- 2010, Dan van der Vat, The Guardian, 19 September:
- Though small and delicate-looking, she gave an impression of intense earnestness and latent toughness, qualities that stood her in good stead when she dared to challenge the most intrusive communist society in eastern Europe.
- 2010, Dan van der Vat, The Guardian, 19 September:
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Translations
Verb
stead (third-person singular simple present steads, present participle steading, simple past and past participle steaded)
- (obsolete) To help, support, benefit or assist; to be helpful.
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I scene iii[1]:
- May you stead me? will you pleasure me? shall I know your answer?
- c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I scene iii[2]:
- I could never better stead thee than now. […]
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii[3]:
- Some food we had and some fresh water that / A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, / Out of his charity,—who being then appointed / Master of this design,—did give us, with / Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, / Which since have steaded much: […]
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I scene iii[1]:
- (obsolete) To fill the stead or place of something.
Derived terms
- bestead
Translations
Etymology 2
Clipping of steady.
Noun
stead (plural steads)
- (Singapore, colloquial) One's partner in a romantic relationship.
Anagrams
- AEDST, Deats, Stade, TASed, asdet, dates, desat, sadet, sated, stade, tased, tsade
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snead
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English *sneden, *snæden (found in compound tosnæden), from Old English sn?dan (“to cut; feed”), from Proto-Germanic *snaidijan?, related to Middle High German sneiten, Icelandic sneiða, English snithe (“to cut”). More at snithe.
Alternative forms
- sneed, sned, snathe, snade
Verb
snead (third-person singular simple present sneads, present participle sneading, simple past and past participle sneaded)
- (transitive) To cut; lop; prune.
Etymology 2
From Middle English snade, snede, from Old English sn?d (“a piece, bit, slice”), related to Icelandic sneið.
Noun
snead (plural sneads)
- A piece; bit; slice.
Etymology 3
See snatch.
Noun
snead (plural sneads)
- (Britain) A snath.
- (Britain, dialect) A line or cord; a string.
Anagrams
- Andes, DNase, Danes, Deans, Denas, Sande, Sedan, Sedna, deans, nades, saden, sedan
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