What's the difference between sike and sipe?

Sike


Definition:

  • (a.) Such. See Such.
  • (n.) A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer.
  • (n.) A sick person.
  • (v. i.) To sigh.
  • (n.) A sigh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sikes also explained that he had continued to depress the brakes until "finally they started smelling really bad and I had metal sounds coming in the car".
  • (2) The driver, 61 year-old James Sikes, called Highway Patrol officers on his mobile phone after the 2008 Prius suddenly began to accelerate of its own accord while he was driving down the Interstate 8 freeway outside San Diego.
  • (3) Earlier models, such as Sikes's, were not included in this recall.
  • (4) "I pushed the gas pedal to pass a car, and it just did something kind of funny … and it just stuck there," Sikes told a news conference outside a Highway Patrol office following the incident.
  • (5) The Antibody Binding Test, a new technique for the evaluation of inactivated Rabies vaccines, developed by Arko, Wiktor and Sikes, was compared with the NIH- and Habel Test.
  • (6) Slaty Sike is a catchment that copes well under normal weather conditions but when the area is hit by bigger storms experiences a rapid flow of water down the steep hillsides, washing debris and stones into Haltwhistle Burn.
  • (7) Sikes said the accelerator pedal was stuck, and that the car would not stop even though he was pressing the brake with all his force.
  • (8) Sikes told reporters that he had taken his car to a local Toyota dealership about two weeks ago for a service, and was told his car was not on the recall list.
  • (9) Located at Slaty Sike, a tributary of Haltwhistle Burn, the scheme stems from research being carried out by Newcastle University into natural flood management (NFM) - natural engineering which works with the landscape to slow, store and filter water after heavy rainfall.
  • (10) Once the car slowed to 50mph Sikes was able to turn off the engine.
  • (11) The highway patrol team drove alongside the Prius, and instructed Sikes to engage the hand brake while simultaneously holding down the foot brake.

Sipe


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The deduced NH2-terminal 30 amino acids encoded by the dog cDNA are identical to those determined by sequence analysis of purified dog cytochrome P450 PBD-2, and the amino acid composition concurs with that determined for the PBD-2 protein (D. B. Duignan, I. G. Sipes, T. B. Leonard, and J. R. Halpert, 1987, Arch.

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