What's the difference between stickle and stickled?

Stickle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.
  • (v. i.) To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
  • (v. i.) To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
  • (v. t.) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
  • (v. t.) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.
  • (v. t. & i.) A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No one's skipping around European landmarks when a screaming toddler needs a Capri-Sun opened or a Stickle Brick removed from its nose.
  • (2) No one knows yet where Hollande stands, but the signs are he will favour flexibility over German stickling for the rules.
  • (3) Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) binding characteristics in pituitaries of stickle-backs under different physiological conditions were studied using D-Arg6-Pro9-salmonGnRH-NEt as labeled ligand.
  • (4) Stickl's method of oral treatment of acne vulgaris with antigens has been carried out on 26 test persons.
  • (5) High extracellular calcium (1 mM) completely reverses this inhibition and also significantly extends the time course of O2- production in both quin-2 and control cells (Stickle et al., 1984).

Stickled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Stickle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No one's skipping around European landmarks when a screaming toddler needs a Capri-Sun opened or a Stickle Brick removed from its nose.
  • (2) No one knows yet where Hollande stands, but the signs are he will favour flexibility over German stickling for the rules.
  • (3) Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) binding characteristics in pituitaries of stickle-backs under different physiological conditions were studied using D-Arg6-Pro9-salmonGnRH-NEt as labeled ligand.
  • (4) Stickl's method of oral treatment of acne vulgaris with antigens has been carried out on 26 test persons.
  • (5) High extracellular calcium (1 mM) completely reverses this inhibition and also significantly extends the time course of O2- production in both quin-2 and control cells (Stickle et al., 1984).

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