What's the difference between stike and stipe?

Stike


Definition:

  • (n.) Stanza.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the letter, Gadahn – who the White House has announced was killed in a US drone stike in January – told the al-Qaida leader that Benjamin Franklin had never been a president of the United States and warned that if he or Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden’s deputy, made the mistake in propaganda speeches, their credibility would suffer.
  • (2) Brandon Belt stikes out, and then Gregor Blanco strolls to the plate.
  • (3) Furthermore, it was stiking that in the same group of women the examined parameters frequently showed different results.
  • (4) From this a configuration type (with stikingly rigid behaviour and an otherwise unobtrusive scale constellation) can be interpreted as the "typical tacher" product of lengthy pedagogic activity.
  • (5) Away from the main towns, PKK militants have since Sunday killed 16 soldiers and 12 police in a series of bomb attacks, prompting air stikes and a vow from the the prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, that the militants will be “wiped out from the mountains” .
  • (6) The normal neonatal neurological behaviour which did not change till death at 3 months, is a stiking phenomenon.

Stipe


Definition:

  • (n.) The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.
  • (n.) The stalk of a pistil.
  • (n.) The trunk of a tree.
  • (n.) The stem of a fungus or mushroom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cadmium and copper content was determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry from four tissue types; young blade, old blade, young stipe and old stipe.
  • (2) The ratio of xylitol DH to sorbitol DH was greater than unity in both monokaryotic mycelium and dikaryotic fruit body caps, whereas this ratio decreased in the stipe (stalk) tissue.
  • (3) Coming across like a journey into a desperate mind, Stipe's vocals sound more naked than they've ever been before.
  • (4) The peculiar percussion in the song's middle-eight – helicopter blade whirrs, and a distant shouting army – sound especially fierce against Michael Stipe's distant, spoken-word testimony.
  • (5) Neymar wriggled past Sime Vrsaljko by the goal-line, crossed low and from the clearance Oscar’s booming left-footed shot was saved by Stipe Pletikosa.
  • (6) In a series of tweets posted on the account of bandmate Mike Mills, Stipe said: “Go fuck yourselves, the lot of you – you sad, attention-grabbing, power-hungry little men.
  • (7) 12.42am BST 83 min: Croatia goalkeeper Stipe Pletikosa is forced to gallop off his line and make a rare save, diving at the feet of Salli to block a shot.
  • (8) Mexico were in the ascendancy by the mid-point of the second half, with Vedran Corluka clearing off his line following a corner and Stipe Pletikosa saving from Paul Aguilar with his foot.
  • (9) Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian Ins Juan Cuadrado (Fiorentina, £26.8m) Outs André Schürrle (Wolfsburg, £24m), Mohamed Salah (Fiorentina, loan), Mark Schwarzer (Leicester, free), Fernando Torres (Milan, free), Todd Kane (Nottm Forest, loan), Tomas Kalas (Middlesbrough, loan), Lewis Baker (Sheffield Wednesday, loan), Marko Marin (Anderlecht, loan), Nathaniel Chalobah (Reading, loan), John Swift (Swindon, loan); Stipe Perica (Udinese, loan), Ryan Bertrand (Southampton, undisc) José Mourinho had hoped for a quiet window, the usual flurry of out-going loans aside, but the dissatisfaction of Schürrle and Salah at bit-part roles forced his hand .
  • (10) A few of them – Michael Stipe of REM was one – even said they would invest.
  • (11) Michael Stipe saw Electrolite as a farewell song for the 20th century, with LA being the perfect location for such a subject.
  • (12) 6 Country Feedback Recorded in one take for Out of Time , released in 1991, the words allegedly off a piece of paper that never had a complete lyric on it, Michael Stipe has claimed this to be his favourite REM song (at other points, he's also given this honour to Perfect Circle , and 1986's Fall on Me) .
  • (13) The main accumulation of mannitol was in the pileus and stipe of the sporophore and was accompanied by a decrease in the soluble protein content of these tissues.
  • (14) Do not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign.” Though the statement spoke broadly about “the lot” of politicians, Mills prefaced it with the stipulation that it reflected Stipe’s opinion on Trump.
  • (15) At the site of crucifixion, his wrists were nailed to the patibulum and, after the patibulum was lifted onto the upright post (stipes), his feet were nailed to the stipes.
  • (16) Different levels of a given inhibitor were needed to prevent stipe formation, apothecial formation or mycelial germination.
  • (17) Trehalase activity in dialyzed enzyme extracts showed pH optima at acid and alkaline pH levels in monokaryotic mycelium, dikaryotic stipes, and cap tissues.
  • (18) We examined 300 stipes of leavens coming from various material.
  • (19) Michael Stipe, meanwhile, asks: “Who better than Naomi to make sense of this madness, and help us find a way out?” Does she recognise the danger that she is preaching only to the converted, and further entrenching our polarised politics?
  • (20) Indeed, had Mbia shown more composure when winding up from 20 yards, Stipe Pletikosa may have been called into action.