different between steek vs streek

English

Alternative forms

• steik

Etymology

From Scots steek, from Middle English steke (“to enclose”) and Middle Dutch steken (“to stitch”). Noun from Scots steek (“stitch”), from Middle Dutch steek (“stitch”). More at stick, stitch.

Verb

steek (third-person singular simple present steeks, present participle steeking, simple past and past participle steeked)

1. To stitch (sew with a needle).
2. To shut or close.
3. (knitting) To use a technique for knitting garments such as sweaters in the round without interruption for openings or sleeves until the end.

Noun

steek (plural steeks)

1. (Scotland) A stitch.
   • 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 565:

     Ake Ogilvie told the tale the next day to Ma Cleghorn, Ma lying at rest in her bed, she'd gone to bed with a steek in her side and as lying fair wearied till Ake looked in.

2. (knitting) The bridge of extra stitches used in the steeking technique.

Anagrams

• 'keets, Teske, keets, skeet, skete, teeks

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

steek m (plural steken, diminutive steekje n)

1. a prick (insect bite), a stab, a thrust
2. a knot
3. a stitch
4. a bicorne or tricorn; a cornered hat

   Synonym: punthoed

Derived terms

• geen steek zien
• in de steek laten

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

steek

1. first-person singular present indicative of steken
2. imperative of steken

Anagrams

• sekte, steke

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?k

Verb

streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streeking, simple past and past participle streeked)

1. (archaic, dialect, Britain, Scotland, transitive) To stretch.
2. (archaic, dialect, Britain, Scotland, transitive) To lay out, as a dead body.

Derived terms

• streeker

Anagrams

• Kester, Sterek, Tereks, skeert

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch streek, from Middle Dutch str?ke, from Old Dutch *striki, from Proto-West Germanic *striki, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /str???k/

Noun

streek (plural streke)

1. prank
2. region

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stre?k/
• Hyphenation: streek
• Rhymes: -e?k

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch str?ke, from Old Dutch *striki, from Proto-West Germanic *striki, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz.

Noun

streek f (plural streken, diminutive streekje n)

1. region
2. prank, trick, antic

Derived terms

• een vos verliest wel zijn haren, maar niet zijn streken
• jezuïetenstreek
• landstreek
• mijnstreek
• schaamstreek
• streekroman
• streektaal
• streekvervoer

Descendants

• Afrikaans: streek

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

streek

1. singular past indicative of strijken

Anagrams

• ekster, kreest, sterke, streke

Scots

Verb

streek (third-person singular present streeks, present participle streekin, past streekit, past participle streekit)

1. (South Scots, archaic) stretch

   Fower hunder horsemen in yeh streekit line.

Synonyms

• streetch

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

streek c (plural streken, diminutive streekje)

1. line, stripe
2. stroke, stroking movement
3. region
4. trick, prank

Derived terms

• streektaal

Further reading

• “streek”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011