What's the difference between stile and stilt?

Stile


Definition:

  • (n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style.
  • (n.) Mode of composition. See Style.
  • (v. i.) A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall.
  • (v. i.) One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Psychophysical results on human colour matching (Stiles & Burch, 1955; Stiles & Burch, 1959) were well predicted from the spectral sensitivities of the monkey cones.
  • (2) I conclude that there is not strong evidence for discrete lambda max variations in the Stiles-Burch matches.
  • (3) Such functions were obtained for 2-deg and 10-deg fields from twelve subjects, and the difference between the two fields was compared with the macular pigment density tabulated in Wyszecki and Stiles's book.
  • (4) She was shortlisted for a Forward prize at the age of 30 for her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, took the TS Eliot prize with her second , a remarkable book-length poem about the river Dart, and is now, 15 years later, widely hailed as one of British poetry's finest, brightest voices.
  • (5) The possibility of a rod contribution to the peripheral functions could not be eliminated although several different techniques, including the Stiles-Crawford effect, were used to try to isolate cone mechanisms.
  • (6) The sensitivities of an S and an M cone pathway were assessed in patients with retinitis pigmentosa, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and open-angle glaucoma using Stiles two-color increment threshold technique.
  • (7) Both techniques are unaffected by coma or by the Stiles-Crawford effects, thus optical TCA rather than the TCA perceived in normal view is measured.
  • (8) Needing to win by two clear goals in the return leg, Ramsey picked Nobby Stiles and Norman Hunter and Peter Storey.
  • (9) The two reference lights (441 and 481 nm) differ only in their stimulation of S This novel technique utilizes the different magnitudes of the rod and cone Stiles--Crawford effects.
  • (10) The present analysis is discussed in relation to Stiles' model of independent eta mechanisms.
  • (11) There are some steep sections, and quite a lot of stiles and gates.
  • (12) Such recaptured light makes a previously unknown contribution to the various Stiles-Crawford effects.
  • (13) The light-adaptation properties of goldfish photoreceptor mechanisms were examined using Stiles' two-color threshold technique.
  • (14) Comparable estimates of the sources and range of interobserver differences in color matching were obtained from a similar analysis of the Stiles-Burch 2 degrees color matches [Opt.
  • (15) Finally, the Stiles-Crawford effect was examined with a green test light at 12 degrees in the nasal visual field.
  • (16) Two blue cone monochromats and four rod monochromats have been studied by increment threshold measurements applying the Stiles' principle.
  • (17) The importance of the Stiles-Crawford apodization depends on the wave aberration of the individual subject, but in general it produces an improvement in image quality, and the modulation transfer function becomes more symmetrical.
  • (18) Psychophysical experiments have demonstrated that self-screening in cones depends on the direction of the light in the same manner as the Stiles-Crawford efficiency.
  • (19) Stiles said he had told police he had been physically abused by Captain Lawrence Wilson, who was managing the home, and sexually abused by XI7.
  • (20) We have used a factor analysis of the Stiles-Burch [Opt.

Stilt


Definition:

  • (n.) A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm.
  • (n.) A crutch; also, the handle of a plow.
  • (n.) Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer.
  • (v. t.) To raise on stilts, or as if on stilts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In sharp contrast, the coverage provided by the various mainstream news channels and newspapers not only seems – with some exceptions – unresponsive and stilted, but often non-existent.
  • (2) Tourists take the children out, to the zoo or downtown,” said the head of one orphanage of 16 children, a small wooden house built on stilts in flooded fields.
  • (3) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
  • (4) The houses were built on stilts and connected by thin wooden planks.
  • (5) Old plastic supermarket bags clog the ground under the platform stilts and the smell of sewage is overpowering.
  • (6) Meanwhile , the company's founder Guy Laliberté – the stilt walker who in 2009 became a billionaire space tourist – has said he is "heartbroken" by the traumatic accident.
  • (7) Updated at 1.33am GMT 1.23am GMT Lorde , a 17-year-old who achieved massive international success in about four months, steps on a small, round stage to perform a stilted version of her megahit Royals.
  • (8) It has been a stilted trajectory so far, when you consider the Guardian first wrote about her in 2008, describing her as "the female Frankmusik, the Fisher Price Fischerspooner" based on her debut single !Franchesckaar!
  • (9) My house is on stilts and there are 11 steps up to my front door so by Saturday morning, the water was already very high.
  • (10) The narration was awkward and stilted in a manner that suggested it had been translated into English and back again several times.
  • (11) Instead, the houses are built on stilts – meaning they can be much closer to trees.
  • (12) Initial clinical signs included stilted gait and simultaneous advancement of their pelvic limbs.
  • (13) Sample one of these stilted rorbu – timber-built and each boasting modern kitchens, lounges and nice bathrooms – in the cod-fishing town of Svolvær.
  • (14) Their version of Get Lucky and Freak Out, aided by Stevie Wonder and Nile Rogers, sounds just a little bit stilted, but it might have something to do with this particular recording.
  • (15) It has been claimed that those using social media in an abusive and vindictive way towards this woman are supporters of mine,” said Evans, who beyond a stilted video statement on his release had said nothing as the controversy swirled around him.
  • (16) (There is an ancillary attempt to make himself sound posh by using the stiltedly correct form of "ambassador to the UK".
  • (17) I saw it in Catherine Deneuve and Björk in Dancer in the Dark and in Nicole Kidman in Dogville: a Meg-Ryan-on-Parky glazed look, a hint that they don't quite know what they're doing, or what to make of the stilted script they've been handed.
  • (18) "I represent the people of Xinjiang," Aisikaier says in stilted Mandarin.
  • (19) If successful, it could see rich countries promise not only to cut their emissions but to stump up cash for poor nations to pay for the changes they'll need to protect their towns and villages from those effects of climate change already under way and too late to reverse (think houses on stilts on easily flooded sandbanks in Bangladesh).
  • (20) General clinical symptoms in these animals immediately postexposure were tremors, lethargy, stilted gait, and, in some animals, prostration.