What's the difference between stiller and tiller?

Stiller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who stills, or quiets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bowie’s 1980 track Fashion has provided the soundtrack for more catwalk shows than I could ever hope to list here, and of course Bowie made a cameo appearance – judging a walk-off between two competing male models – in Ben Stiller’s brilliant 2001 fashion spoof Zoolander.
  • (2) I’m certain he, Ben Stiller and Alexander Payne were all justified in their scorn.
  • (3) Forbes top 10 list 1 Tom Cruise , $75m 2 = Leonardo DiCaprio , $37m 2 = Adam Sandler , $37m 4 Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, $36m 5 Ben Stiller , $33m 6 = Sacha Baron Cohen , $30m 6 = Johnny Depp , $30m 6 = Will Smith , $30m 9 Mark Wahlberg , $27m 10 = Taylor Lautner, $26.5 m 10 = Robert Pattinson , $26.5 m
  • (4) The top five is rounded out by Ben Stiller , whose voice work in the animated sequel Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted helped the film to return $426m worldwide last month.
  • (5) Asked by a member of the audience how he had handled rehearsals for a group of actors that includes Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Casey Affleck and Precious's Gabourey Sidibe , Ratner responded glibly: "Rehearsal?
  • (6) "If I'd got him when he was younger I'd have tried to make him be even stiller, to conserve his energy like Galen," he says.
  • (7) For Stiller's roast, Comedy Central didn't want me there as I wasn't in its demographic.
  • (8) David Wilcock Dalston, Cumbria • I am dismayed to see the Guardian persisting with the popular conception that suffering from cancer somehow equates to having a fight ( Actor Ben Stiller discloses prostate cancer fight , 5 October).
  • (9) Joe Pesci's burgundy velvet suit in My Cousin Vinny, tied with Ben Stiller's tracksuits in The Royal Tenenbaums.
  • (10) As of this writing I am two years cancer free and extremely grateful.” Stiller stresses that he is still tested regularly and urges men to get their PSA level checked, which indicates the presence of prostate cancer, despite some controversy about whether the test can lead to over-treatment of cancers which are not life-threatening.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Stiller and Rock in 2008 at the Madagascar 2 premiere.
  • (12) Ben Stiller ($53m), Tom Hanks ($45m) and Adam Sandler ($40m) all earned more than Jolie.
  • (13) That film was released in 2016; Stiller’s credits prior to that were the 2014 comedies While We’re Young and Night at the Museum 3.
  • (14) For the great James Thurber creation – played first on film by Danny Kaye and recently revived by Ben Stiller – is a harmless daydreamer, lapsing into pleasant fantasies in which he himself is cast as the hero.
  • (15) The Adidas tracksuits worn by Chas (Ben Stiller) in The Royal Tenenbaums give me a similar thrill of pleasure and deserve a place on "greatest men's fashion moments in cinema" far more than boring ol' American Gigolo.
  • (16) Already written are a film about Winston Churchill's depression and an untitled Ben Stiller movie.
  • (17) I, like Ben Stiller, had prostate cancer which was detected by a blood test and then treated by a radical prostatectomy.
  • (18) In Noah Baumbach’s new film While We’re Young, Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts play CD-generationers who befriend Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried, twentysomethings with a wall of vinyl in their apartment.
  • (19) Stiller’s discussion of his diagnosis prompted a statement from Angela Culhane, chief executive at Prostate Cancer UK, who said: “We applaud Ben for his courage in talking openly about his personal experience.
  • (20) Ben Stiller paid tribute with a tweet, along with a statement : “I met Robin when I was 13 at the Improv.

Tiller


Definition:

  • (v. t.) One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
  • (n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
  • (n.) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
  • (n.) A young timber tree.
  • (v. i.) To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.
  • (n.) A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.
  • (n.) The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.
  • (n.) The handle of anything.
  • (n.) A small drawer; a till.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
  • (2) But he will not be attending conference every day, and will have his hands firmly off the tiller as far as editorial matters are concerned.
  • (3) The effects of fescue endophyte content (low, 16 or high, 44% of tillers examined) and of N fertilization rate (low, 134 kg N.ha-1.yr-1 or high, 336 kg N.ha-1.yr-1) upon serum prolactin (PRL) in Angus steers were examined.
  • (4) In the dental hospital Münster 25 adhesive bridges have been incorporated for the last two years by the Silicoater method, which has been developed by Kulzer with the assistance of Musil and Tiller.
  • (5) This allows a very Blakean moment: he discovered a photograph of the Tiller Girls doing a horse routine with hooves on their hands.
  • (6) Those concerns were heightened last year when the deputy mayor, Kit Malthouse, said he and Johnson "have our hands on the tiller" of the Met and had taken control of the force away from the home office.
  • (7) The cohort of viscose rayon workers previously described by Tiller et al has been reconstructed and followed up to the end of 1982.
  • (8) To correct his trajectory now, in the year before a general election, he will need to grab hold of that tiller and yank it so hard to the right he will send flying the sunbathers on the deck of his dangerously left-leaning ship.
  • (9) Dipper samples were taken from rice fields at six phases of maturity (fallow, ploughed, nursery, newly transplanted, after tillering, mature).
  • (10) That, I believe, is a far more positive and practical Scottish contribution to progressive policy than sending a tribute of Labour MPs to Westminster to have the occasional turn at the Westminster tiller – particularly in the circumstances ofas the opposition's policy increasingly converging with that of the coalition on the key issues of the economy and public spending.
  • (11) Talking about the first attempt on Tiller’s life, before Roeder, he laughingly refers to perpetrator Shelley Shannon as a terrible shot, because she shot him in both arms, when presumably aiming for his chest.
  • (12) Usually thanks to my wife: her role is often to lash me to the tiller and keep me there long enough to get through the bad patches.
  • (13) The squad of players available to Hughton clearly had the talent to make an immediate return but the Championship needs a steady hand at the tiller.
  • (14) And maybe we should borrow a tiller at this point or buy one?
  • (15) Sandrine Tiller, programmes adviser on humanitarian issues, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), London, UK, @MSF_UK @sandrinetiller Identify our own weak spots: While it is true that many external factors have made delivering humanitarian aid more difficult, we also have a responsibility to look more closely at ourselves.
  • (16) Tillers of C. dactylon and E. indica from the three sites were subjected to a series concentrations of Pb(NO3)2.
  • (17) They tried everything they could to put George Tiller out of business,” Curtis says.
  • (18) Panel Sandrine Tiller, programmes adviser on humanitarian issues, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) London, UK, @MSF_UK @sandrinetiller Sandrine’s expertise is in the politicisation of aid and the current state of the aid system.
  • (19) Here’s a press baron who doesn’t interfere; who maintains a careful distance; who doesn’t want tea in Downing Street; who goes outside the UK and outside the media when he has to make crucial appointments: a steadying hand on a tiller far away.
  • (20) Tiller’s Wichita clinic, one of the few in the country to perform late-term abortions, was for years one of the most prominent battlegrounds over abortion.

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