What's the difference between steed and steer?

Steed


Definition:

  • (n.) A horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
  • (2) A few months ago I visited a house in Rawalpindi with a giant poster over the windows, depicting a heroic warrior on a gallant white steed.
  • (3) Fulham will break their record transfer fee when they complete the £4.5m signing of the French Under-21 international Steed Malbranque from Lyon today.
  • (4) Each molecule of E. coli DNA topoisomerase I has been shown to have three tightly bound zinc(II) ions required for relaxation activity (Tse-Dinh, Y.-C., and Beran-Steed, R.K. (1988) J. Biol.
  • (5) Or the transport bosses determined to make taking bikes on trains as difficult as possible, who threaten to confiscate steeds locked up on railings outside the station when their deeply inadequate bike racks are full.
  • (6) If he can identify an experienced player to exert the influence that his most inspired recruit, Steed Malbranque , did for him at Stade Gerland, then so much the better.
  • (7) If you're really keen, this could be the perfect excuse to fork out for a two-wheeled steed.
  • (8) You spend a couple of hours getting to know your trusty steed, learning how to handle him or her, before setting off on a mapped route along the Rota Vicentina, staying in pre-booked guesthouses or hotels en route.
  • (9) We do have permission to use this one ... John Steed and Emma Peel ... although I'm not 100 percent sure it ticks all boxes regarding modern sensibilities.
  • (10) Took free-kick with pace for winning goal Steed Malbranque 6 Showed hustle and forced Cech into a first-half save.
  • (11) Arsenal were not even excused further pain as Steed Malbranque added a fifth in stoppage time.
  • (12) Virulent Bordetella pertussis strains survive intracellularly within human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN), at least in part because of inhibition of phagosome-lysosome fusion (L. L. Steed, M. Setareh, and R. L. Friedman, J. Leukocyte Biol.
  • (13) Colonel John Steed, in charge of the UN's counter-piracy unit in Nairobi, said that as darkness fell it had become impossible to give chase further.
  • (14) But your hair will still be raised: 17 rides are currently open, more than enough for a day out, ranging from the vintage galloper merry-go-round, its handsome, brightly painted steeds performing a stately dance, to the hectic, waltzer-meets-rollercoaster swoops of the Crazy Mouse which has us screaming like hopped-up teenagers.

Steer


Definition:

  • (a.) A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.
  • (v. t.) To castrate; -- said of male calves.
  • (n.) To direct the course of; to guide; to govern; -- applied especially to a vessel in the water.
  • (v. i.) To direct a vessel in its course; to direct one's course.
  • (v. i.) To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm; as, the boat steers easily.
  • (v. i.) To conduct one's self; to take or pursue a course of action.
  • (v. t.) A rudder or helm.
  • (n.) A helmsman, a pilot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Steroid-treated steers showed a slight decline in synthesis which was significant (P less than 0.05) at week +5 post-implant while amino acid oxidation was significantly lower at weeks +2 (P less than 0.01) and +5 (P less than 0.05) compared with control animals.
  • (2) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
  • (3) Holstein steers gained 11% faster (P less than .005) and consumed 8% less (P less than .025) dry matter per unit gain than the average of Angus and Polled Hereford steers.
  • (4) "We are probably steering towards Russia turning off its gas provision," he was quoted as saying.
  • (5) I tried desperately hard not to influence her, but I did steer her away from a baby that I've already bought her for her Christmas present.
  • (6) A detailed account of the progress of a preschool child learning to steer a powered wheelchair via a mouth-operated joystick is described.
  • (7) Educated at Imperial College London, he trained at the contractors Freeman Fox, but in 1978 he turned freelance as a transport consultant, setting up his own firm: Steer Davies Gleave.
  • (8) Flying in Soyuz was “ real teamwork ” she said, adding: “Tim will have no trouble with that.” David Southwood , a senior researcher at Imperial College, and a member of the UK space agency steering board, has known Tim since he joined the European Space Agency in 2009.
  • (9) Postweaning growth and carcass characters of 110 steers from a complete two-breed diallel of the Devon and Hereford breeds were examined under two environments.
  • (10) A fired-up Lleyton Hewitt just fell short in his bid to steer Australia to an upset victory in their Davis Cup doubles showdown with the United States.
  • (11) As a parent himself, he steered a deliberate course on discipline (neither he nor his wife ever smacked their girls) and on external influences - the family did not have a television while the children were young, preferring to read.
  • (12) A mixture of (1-14C)-labeled free fatty acids (FFA), complexed in bovine plasma, was infused into the abdominal aorta of conscious young steers exposed to thermoneutral or moderately cold conditions for several hours and fed 6 or 22 h before the experiment.
  • (13) But on Tuesday the White House steered the conversation toward the website.
  • (14) Previously, Hotel Chocolat has steered clear of raising money through the traditional channels.
  • (15) These functional specializations of the different steering muscles in mediating different behavioral response components are related to the properties of two parallel visual pathways that are selectively tuned to large-field and small-field motion, respectively.
  • (16) Motor vehicle occupants may suffer severe cervical airway injuries as the result of impaction with the steering wheel, dashboard, windshield, backseat, and seat belt.
  • (17) A comparison was made of the effect of providing or denying water to steers during the last 20 h before slaughter on carcase weight, bruising, muscle pH, and during the dressing process on the numbers of rumens from which ingesta was split and the number of heads and tongues condemned because of contamination with ingesta.
  • (18) In 1987, the Educational Steering Committee for Cancer Care at The Washington Hospital was established to meet this need.
  • (19) Since 2010, he has worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the wing of the US defense department devoted to funding and developing new technologies, from a self-steering bullet called Exacto to the packet-switching system, Arpanet, that became the internet.
  • (20) The role of steering wheel design in maxillofacial trauma is discussed and new solutions briefly reviewed.