What's the difference between die and stifle?

Die


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Dice
  • (v. i.) To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
  • (v. i.) To suffer death; to lose life.
  • (v. i.) To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
  • (v. i.) To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
  • (v. i.) To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
  • (v. i.) To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.
  • (v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
  • (v. i.) To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  • (n.) A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.
  • (n.) Any small cubical or square body.
  • (n.) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
  • (n.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
  • (n.) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.
  • (n.) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.
  • (n.) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (2) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
  • (3) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
  • (4) After resection of the liver 13 patients of 31 died.
  • (5) Of the 594 patients, 23.7% died and 38.7% had documented inhalation injury.
  • (6) All of the nude mice developed paraplegia with or without incontinence at 2 weeks and routinely died of inanition 3 weeks postimplantation.
  • (7) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
  • (8) No evidence of BPH was observed in 68.4% of patients who had died of cancer.
  • (9) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
  • (10) In the patients who have died or have been classified as slowly progressive the serum 19-9 changes ranged from +13% to +707%.
  • (11) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
  • (12) Three patients died from non-hepatic causes and another has received liver transplantation.
  • (13) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (14) Mitoses of nuclei of myocytes of the left ventricle of the heart observed in two elderly people who had died of extensive relapsing infarction are described.
  • (15) Four patients with tumours larger than 2 cm died from metastatic carcinoid.
  • (16) The patient later died from complications of burns.
  • (17) Male guinea pigs received either a single dose of As2O3 10 mg.kg-1 s.c. or repeated doses of 2.5 mg.kg-1 bis in die (b.i.d.)
  • (18) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
  • (19) Thirty had an in situ tumor (mean age: 30 years) and 34 had an invasive adenocarcinoma (mean age: 45 years), 7 of whom died of their cancer.
  • (20) These patients developed mediastinal lymph node metastasis and died 4 and 11 months after surgery, respectively.

Stifle


Definition:

  • (n.) The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse.
  • (v. t.) To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust.
  • (v. t.) To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
  • (v. t.) To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.
  • (v. i.) To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I would like to see the return to a free university system for Australian students so everybody can have the same dreams and aspirations about bettering themselves and this nation, regardless of their circumstances.” Palmer said Australia’s best thinkers were being “stifled” and the country was “burying them in debt”.
  • (2) The stifles were frozen in slight flexion, then cut into 1-cm sagittal sections.
  • (3) 'Azerbaijan is turning into a dictatorship – we shouldn't fall for its caviar diplomacy' Read more The crowded courtroom was growing increasing stifling as the air-conditioner could not cope with mid-August heat.
  • (4) In addition, two dogs received intra-articular injections of autologous blood into their right stifle joint and saline into their left stifle joint.
  • (5) But whatever positions are put forward, we must ensure democracy is not stifled.
  • (6) What about the chilling effects of libel tourism and a system that both adds cost to stories and stifles freedom of expression?
  • (7) For long periods Argentina had been stifled by a fine counterpunching opposition, but it would be a little hasty to fret too much about them after this performance.
  • (8) Property taxes stifle investment and they contribute to businesses closing.” He said 66% of the properties featured on the list had appealed against their business rates.
  • (9) My role in these later manifestations of silence was that of aiding her in the articulation of hopes and wishes, stifled since early childhood because of an unfortunate series of abandonments and experiences of humiliation.
  • (10) A modified Ilizarov external fixator was used to transfix the stifle joint in 13 dogs.
  • (11) Peter Wilmshurst and his family enter the normal world blinking from the bright light of a case that is over" Wilmshurst was under no illusions as to the possibly disastrous financial outcome for himself and his family, but refused to back down in the face of a libel suit he believed was an attempt to silence valid criticism and stifle scientific debate.
  • (12) The development of elastic-system fibers in human vocal cord is characterized by every stage of maturation, whether normal, stifled or accelerated, according to areas.
  • (13) The English have escaped from the stifling post-imperial malaise to provide a political and economic system which is both continuous and dynamic, attracting capital and enterprise from all over the world.
  • (14) We are particularly grateful for our colleagues across the world who supported the Guardian in circumstances which threatened to stifle our reporting.
  • (15) The incident is the latest dispute between Belarus and western nations, in particular EU states that have challenged the former Soviet country and its longtime leader, Alexander Lukashenko , over a perceived stifling of human rights.
  • (16) In addition, a drawer sign was present in the stifle of 14 animals 31 days after surgery.
  • (17) It is said, for example, that tighter curbs would stifle innovation, although this theory appears not to be true for any other branch of modern capitalism.
  • (18) The death toll was worst in old peoples' homes and (less surprisingly) in stifling cities where the old, friendless and abandoned succumbed to the heat in anonymous apartments.
  • (19) Inside the carriage the temperature was stifling, the stench of unwashed bodies and stale urine overwhelming.
  • (20) "Telecoms is a very good example: for a long time, we had a government monopoly, which stifled innovation, and the service was poor.

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