different between stelling vs steeling

English

Etymology

Dutch stelling

Noun

stelling (plural stellings)

1. A site or position (especially at shoreline or with reference to (former) Dutch colonies)

Anagrams

• gillnets, tellings

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch stellinge. Equivalent to stellen +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?.l??/
• Hyphenation: stel?ling
• Rhymes: -?l??

Noun

stelling f (plural stellingen, diminutive stellinkje n)

1. position, configuration

   Stelling van Amsterdam — Defense line of Amsterdam

2. thesis, contention
3. sentence
4. theorem
5. scaffold

   Synonym: stellage

Derived terms

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?tli?k/
• Rhymes: -?tli?k

Noun

stelling f (genitive singular stellingar, nominative plural stellingar)

1. pose, stance, position, posture

Declension

English

Verb

steeling

1. present participle of steel

Noun

steeling (plural steelings)

1. A strengthening with, or as if with, steel.
   • 1951, The Australasian Engineer (page 163)

     The joints of the toggle mechanism are equipped with steelings of special hardened steel, and are of ample dimensions to withstand the great pressure exerted in embossing or coining.

   • 1968, Francis Stewart Leland Lyons, John Dillon: a biography (page 19)

     Alas against such terrors as this all steelings of the heart are absolutely useless.

Anagrams

• Gentiles, gentiles, setleing, sleeting