What's the difference between stike and tike?

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.

Tike


Definition:

  • (n.) A tick. See 2d Tick.
  • (n.) A dog; a cur.
  • (n.) A countryman or clown; a boorish person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When highly purified preparations of the anticoagulant activity from the Tike-Uba tree were examined in specific blood coagulation enzyme assays utilizing chromogenic substrates, the highest inhibitory potency was found versus thrombin, followed by factor Xa.
  • (2) The arrow poison was prepared from the bark of a tree, known locally as Tike-Uba.
  • (3) Tracing the story of Tike and Ella May Hamlin, "hardscrabble farmers" in Texas, it is a "searing portrait of the Panhandle and its marginalised Great Depression residents".