What's the difference between sile and sipe?

Sile


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strain, as fresh milk.
  • (v. i.) To drop; to flow; to fall.
  • (n.) A sieve with fine meshes.
  • (n.) Filth; sediment.
  • (n.) A young or small herring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Awkwardness of the day Uproar in China as the national flags hauled up for Du Li and Yi Siling , silver and bronze winners in the women’s 10m air rifle, had the four smaller stars pointing in the wrong direction, a gaffe repeated when Sun Yang stepped up for his men’s 400m freestyle silver.
  • (2) What is the difference between luttering down, siling down and plothering down?
  • (3) Claims that it will boost the economy and jobs are “ vastly overblown ”, according to the political scientist Dr Gabriel Siles-Brügge , of Manchester University.
  • (4) The bronze medal was claimed by the 2012 Olympic champion, Yi Siling of China.

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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