What's the difference between stalk and tiller?

Stalk


Definition:

  • (n.) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
  • (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
  • (n.) That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
  • (n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
  • (n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
  • (n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
  • (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
  • (n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
  • (n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
  • (v. i.) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
  • (v. i.) To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
  • (v. i.) To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.
  • (v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
  • (n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Regeneration and reorganization of the proximal cut end of the pituitary stalk is demonstrated in Ompok bimaculatus with the aid of in situ staining technique.
  • (2) Thus, the long stalks of Sk1 or phosphate-starved caulobacters are not merely a function of their longer doubling times.
  • (3) The mesenchyme surrounding the stalk stains positively for fibronectin.
  • (4) Do know how much stalking is too much stalking Seven pages into Google is too much.
  • (5) A rich network of fibers was observed in the median eminence coursing towards the pituitary stalk.
  • (6) ECF1 is separated from the membrane-embedded F0 by a narrow stalk approximately 40 A long and approximately 25-30 A thick.
  • (7) Hormone secretion was increased by electrical stimulation of the pituitary stalk at different frequencies.
  • (8) Furthermore, there were differences between anterior and posterior regions of both slime sheaths and stalk tubes.
  • (9) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
  • (10) Septal release slightly decreased during pituitary stalk stimulation, whereas it did increase during stimulation of the supraoptic region.
  • (11) It is hemispherical in shape and is located at the end of a 1.5 mm long eye stalk.
  • (12) Since such rats supposedly have a normal pigment distribution and a normal pattern of decussation at the optic chiasm, this finding appears to undermine the suggested role played by stalk melanin in establishing the laterality of retinal fibre projections in other mammalian species.
  • (13) As culmination proceeds, pstA cells transform into pstB cells by activating the ecmB gene as they enter the stalk tube.
  • (14) Other steps, such as the introduction of a national stalking helpline and national revenge pornography helpline have assisted victims.
  • (15) And we know once they leave, men will follow and stalk them.
  • (16) The ultrastructure of some aggregating microorganisms, including fungal hyphae and sheath-forming and stalked bacteria, was studied in detail, and several modes of aggregation were suggested.
  • (17) George, a loner who was said to have stalked and photographed hundreds of women, always maintained his innocence.
  • (18) • One in 10 women have been stalked by a previous partner.
  • (19) Police investigating the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University massacre, which left 33 dead, mainly students, blamed Cho, a fourth-year English student who lived on the campus, for earlier incidents ranging from stalking women to setting fire to a dormitory.
  • (20) The editor of the Spectator stalks the corridors reminding all and sundry that the national debt will have risen far faster and higher under Cameron than under Labour in 13 years.

Tiller


Definition:

  • (v. t.) One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
  • (n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
  • (n.) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
  • (n.) A young timber tree.
  • (v. i.) To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.
  • (n.) A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.
  • (n.) The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.
  • (n.) The handle of anything.
  • (n.) A small drawer; a till.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
  • (2) But he will not be attending conference every day, and will have his hands firmly off the tiller as far as editorial matters are concerned.
  • (3) The effects of fescue endophyte content (low, 16 or high, 44% of tillers examined) and of N fertilization rate (low, 134 kg N.ha-1.yr-1 or high, 336 kg N.ha-1.yr-1) upon serum prolactin (PRL) in Angus steers were examined.
  • (4) In the dental hospital Münster 25 adhesive bridges have been incorporated for the last two years by the Silicoater method, which has been developed by Kulzer with the assistance of Musil and Tiller.
  • (5) This allows a very Blakean moment: he discovered a photograph of the Tiller Girls doing a horse routine with hooves on their hands.
  • (6) Those concerns were heightened last year when the deputy mayor, Kit Malthouse, said he and Johnson "have our hands on the tiller" of the Met and had taken control of the force away from the home office.
  • (7) The cohort of viscose rayon workers previously described by Tiller et al has been reconstructed and followed up to the end of 1982.
  • (8) To correct his trajectory now, in the year before a general election, he will need to grab hold of that tiller and yank it so hard to the right he will send flying the sunbathers on the deck of his dangerously left-leaning ship.
  • (9) Dipper samples were taken from rice fields at six phases of maturity (fallow, ploughed, nursery, newly transplanted, after tillering, mature).
  • (10) That, I believe, is a far more positive and practical Scottish contribution to progressive policy than sending a tribute of Labour MPs to Westminster to have the occasional turn at the Westminster tiller – particularly in the circumstances ofas the opposition's policy increasingly converging with that of the coalition on the key issues of the economy and public spending.
  • (11) Talking about the first attempt on Tiller’s life, before Roeder, he laughingly refers to perpetrator Shelley Shannon as a terrible shot, because she shot him in both arms, when presumably aiming for his chest.
  • (12) Usually thanks to my wife: her role is often to lash me to the tiller and keep me there long enough to get through the bad patches.
  • (13) The squad of players available to Hughton clearly had the talent to make an immediate return but the Championship needs a steady hand at the tiller.
  • (14) And maybe we should borrow a tiller at this point or buy one?
  • (15) Sandrine Tiller, programmes adviser on humanitarian issues, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), London, UK, @MSF_UK @sandrinetiller Identify our own weak spots: While it is true that many external factors have made delivering humanitarian aid more difficult, we also have a responsibility to look more closely at ourselves.
  • (16) Tillers of C. dactylon and E. indica from the three sites were subjected to a series concentrations of Pb(NO3)2.
  • (17) They tried everything they could to put George Tiller out of business,” Curtis says.
  • (18) Panel Sandrine Tiller, programmes adviser on humanitarian issues, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) London, UK, @MSF_UK @sandrinetiller Sandrine’s expertise is in the politicisation of aid and the current state of the aid system.
  • (19) Here’s a press baron who doesn’t interfere; who maintains a careful distance; who doesn’t want tea in Downing Street; who goes outside the UK and outside the media when he has to make crucial appointments: a steadying hand on a tiller far away.
  • (20) Tiller’s Wichita clinic, one of the few in the country to perform late-term abortions, was for years one of the most prominent battlegrounds over abortion.