What's the difference between stive and stiver?

Stive


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling.
  • (v. i.) To be stifled or suffocated.
  • (n.) The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.

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Stiver


Definition:

  • (n.) A Dutch coin, and money of account, of the value of two cents, or about one penny sterling; hence, figuratively, anything of little worth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And Tuesday, Adam Kuhn – the chief of staff to Rep Steve Stivers (R-OH) – resigned after a woman tweeted alleged pictures of Kuhn's penis to his boss's account.
  • (2) An inborn murine cholesterol storage disorder exists which is characterized by a lesion in intracellular cholesterol esterification not accounted for by any discernible abnormality in acyl-CoA: cholesterol acyltransferase (Pentchev, P.G., Boothe, A.D., Kruth, H.S., Weintroub, H., Stivers, J., and Brady, R.O.

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