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Stile

Definition: Stile

Stile

Noun

1. An upright that is a member in a door or window frame.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)


Specialty Definition: Stile

DomainDefinition

Building & Civil Engineering

An outer, vertical member of a sash. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: Stile

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Aid

Verb: aid, assist, help, succor, lend one's aid; come to the aid; n. of; contribute, subscribe to; bring aid, give aid, furnish aid, afford aid, supply aid; Noun: give a helping hand, stretch a hand, lend a helping hand, lend a hand, bear a helping hand, hold out a hand, hold out a helping hand; give one a life, give one a cast, give one a turn; take by the hand, take in tow;help a lame dog over a stile, lend wings to.

Hindrance

Bar, stile, barrier;

Method

Steps; stair, staircase; flight of stairs, ladder, stile; perron.

Vindication

Extenuate, palliate, excuse, soften, apologize, varnish, slur, gloze; put a gloss, put a good face upon; mince; gloss over, bolster up, help a lame dog over a stile.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Stile

English words defined with "stile": Azimuth dialDiminishing stileMontantParting stripStop bead. (references)
Specialty definitions using "stile": DOOR ASSEMBLER I. (references)
Etymologies containing "stile": Stilar. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Stile" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (chic, chick, fashion, smart, style, tony).

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Modern Usage: Stile

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Esercizi di stile (1996)

V russkom stile (1991)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Stile

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Dissertation Concerning Meteors of Stile or False Sublimity (Publication (Augustan Reprint Society), No. 199.) (reference)

  • Die Geschichte der Country Music : Zentren, Stile, Lebensläufe (reference)

  • Essay on the Stile of Doctor Samuel Johnson (Publication / Augustan Reprint Society, No. 229) (reference)

  • La varietáa delle lingue : pensieri sul linguaggio, lo stile e la cultura italiana (reference)

  • Stephano Donaudy: 36 Arie Di Stile Antico (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

  • Jesada CIT-223 Double Rail and Stile Shaper Cutter, Standard, 3/4" Bore (reference)

  • Freud EC-091 Cove And Bead Exterior Door Rail And Stile Shaper Cutter Set - 3/4 Bore (reference)

  • Freud UP262 2-Sided Ogee Profile Shaper Cutter Set For 3/4" Rail And Stile Doors - 1-1/4 Bore (reference)

  • Freud 99-263 Rail and Stile Bit Sets (reference)

  • Freud RS-KIT Spare Part Kit For Freud RS1000 Or RS2000 Rail And Stile Insert Shaper Cutter (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Stile

Photos:
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Familiar Quotations: Stile

AuthorQuotation

Miguel de Cervantes

You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Stile

TitleAuthorQuote

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

There was a stile to pass from this field into the next.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Stile

"Stile" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.80% of the time. "Stile" is used about 227 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)97.8%22220,237
Noun (proper)2.2%5157,705
                    Total100.00%227N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Stile

The following table summarizes the usage of "stile" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
StileLast name20031,066
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Stile

Expressions using "stile": Diminishing stile Hanging stile help a lame dog over a stile pulley stile. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "stile": ladder-stile, narrow-stile, squeeze-stile.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stile

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

julia stile

1,889

julia stile gallery

15

project stile

1,139

guy julia stile thing

15

stile

345

porn project stile

13

julia stile nude

195

hair julia stile

12

ryan stile

109

julia nude pic stile

12

julia stile picture

108

julie stile

12

porn stile

95

fake julia stile

11

jackie stile

70

forum stile

11

project.com stile

63

julia stile wicked

11

julia stile pic

47

julia stile biography

11

julia stile naked

43

hair julia stile style

10

media stile

39

fake julia nude stile

10

hair stile

36

julia nude picture stile

10

doggy stile

28

net stile

9

julia stile wallpaper

24

bio julia stile

8

julia stile movie

23

down julia stile

8

stile woman

22

forum project stile

8

stile machinery

19

filmography julia stile

8

julia stile photo

17

stile tile

8

grady stile

16

media project stile

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Stile

Language Translations for "stile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shkallëz (stepladder), hekur (iron, pressing, rail). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مرقى لعبور جدار, ‏القائم (spar, standing), ‏العضادة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

турникет (tourniquet, turnstile), прелез (highroad crossing, highway-crossing, level crossing). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

窗框 (Stiles). (various references)

   

Czech

  

schùdky přes ohradu. (various references)

   

Danish

  

post (mail, post). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vertikale raamstijl. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

puitteen sivukappale, ikkunapuitteen sivukappale. (various references)

   

French

  

tourniquet, montant d'un cadre, montant (stanchion, stud), échalier. (various references)

   

German

  

zaunübertritt, übertritt (conversion, crossing, defection, passes over, transgresses, trespasses, violates). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σκαλοπάτι (stair, step), σταυρόξυλο διοδίων, βαθμίδεσ προσ ανάβαση φράκτη, ορθοστάτης πλαισίου. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

אמצעי מעבר. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ajtófélfa (door frame, door post, doorjamb, door-post, doorway, jamb, post), oldalléc, kapubálvány, útelzáró forgókereszt, ablakkeret (casement, sash-frame, window frame, window-frame). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scaletta (stepladder), montante (incoming, jamb, post, strut, uppercut, upright). (various references)

   

Manx

  

keym, keim (amble, caste, degree, estate, grade, of high rank, pace, phase, pitch, position, shortcut, stage, standard, station, step). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ilestay

   

Portuguese

  

escada (ladder, stair, staircase, stairs, stairway), degrau (degree, footstep, grade, rung, stair, step), couceira. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pârleaz, barierã (bar, barrier, border, dike, fence, fencing, gate, grating, hindrance, lifting gate, obstruction, Pike, screen, turnpike). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

турникет (tourniquet, turnstile, wicket), приступок. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

drveni vratnik, deo na ogradi. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

larguero (crossbar, lavish, lengthy, slow-working, Stringer, support), escalera para pasar una cerca. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dörrpost (cheek, doorjamb, doorpost). (various references)

   

Thai

  

วงกบหน้าต่างหรือประตู, ประตูหมุน, ขั้นบันไ"ติ"ข้างรั้วหรือกำแพง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

pencere çerçevesi (sash, window frame), dikey çıta, çit merdiveni, çit basamağı. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сзідці, турнікет (tourniquet, turnstile, wicket), покажчик (alphabet, cursor, designator, finger, indicator, pointer). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bậc trèo. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

sticil, camfa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Stile

Derivations

Words beginning with "stile": stiles, stiletto, stilettoed, stilettoes, stilettoing, stilettos. (additional references)

Words ending with "stile": bastile, hostile, nonhostile, turnstile. (additional references)

Words containing "stile": bastiles, hostilely, hostiles, pestilence, pestilences, pestilent, pestilential, pestilentially, pestilently, turnstiles. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Stile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atile, estale, est-il, etile, saile, saille, Sbili, Schiel, schla, Setila, shile, siel, Sile, silex, sille, silte, sitel, sitle, Sittelle, slile, soile, stael, stalle, steale, stelen, stelle, stello, stelze, stibe, stice, stide, stie, stieg, stiel, stiem, stife, stigled, stihl, stil, stila, stiled, stiler, stilla, stille, stilli, stilte, stily, stine, stirler, stite, stitle, Stoilov, strile, stule, stylet, styley, Stylo, stylte, stylx, styne, stype. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Stile"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "stile" (pronounced stī"l)
4s t ī" lrestyle, style.
3-t ī" ltile.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Stile

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: islet, istle, tiles.

Words within the letters "e-i-l-s-t"

-1 letter: isle, leis, lest, lets, lies, list, lite, lits, silt, site, slit, tels, ties, tile, tils.

-2 letters: els, its, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, sei, sel, set, sit, tel, tie, til, tis.

-3 letters: el, es, et, is, it, li, si, ti.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-l-s-t"
 

+1 letter: blites, delist, elints, elites, enlist, filets, fliest, flites, idlest, illest, inlets, islets, istles, itself, ixtles, legist, legits, likest, listed, listee, listel, listen, lister, liters, litres, livest, relist, saltie, silent, silted, sliest, stelai, stelic, stifle, stiles, stipel, tildes, tilers, tinsel, titles, toiles, vilest.

 

+2 letters: aiglets, albites, aplites, astilbe, bastile, bestial, billets, bilsted, blastie, blister, blitzes, blivets, bristle, cellist, citoles, clients, delicts, delists, dentils, details, dilates, dilutes, duelist, eeliest, elastic, elastin, elegist, elegits, elicits, elitism, elitist, elmiest, enlists, entails, entoils, eoliths, epistle, estival, estriol, etoiles, evilest, felsite, fetials, fillets, filmset, filters, giblets, giglets, gimlets, glisten, glister, glitzes, gluiest, gristle, halites, heliast, hitless, holiest, hostile, ileitis, illites, iolites, isolate, jilters, kilters, kilties, kirtles, kittles, klister, laciest, laities, lakiest, latices, laziest, lectins, lefties, leftish, leftism, leftist, legists, leister, lentils, lentisk, liefest, lievest, lifters, ligates, limiest, limites, limpest, limpets, liniest, linnets, lintels, linters, lisente, listees, listels, listens, listers, lithest, litotes, litters, littles, logiest, loiters, luetics, luniest, lustier, luteins, mildest, millets, milters, motiles, nailset, oiliest, oolites, ostiole, outlies, paliest, pelites, piglets, pintles, piolets, pistole, platies, plenist, realist, relicts, relists, resplit, retails, retiles, riblets, rillets, ruliest, rutiles, salient, saltier, salties, saltine, saltire, sectile, setline, sextile, sheltie, silents, siltier, singlet, skelpit, skillet, skittle, slainte, slatier, sleekit, sleight, slither, slitted, slitter, spittle, stabile, steelie, stencil, sterile, stickle, stifled, stifler, stifles, stilled, stiller, stilted, stipels, stipple, stipule, stoolie, stylise, stylite, stylize, subtile, sulfite, sylvite, tailers, tailles, talipes, talkies, tallies, telesis, tellies, tenails, tensile, testily, thistle, tickles, tieless, tillers, tilters, tingles, tinkles, tinsels, tipless, tipples, tittles, toilers, toilets, trellis, trifles, triples, tuilles, ugliest, utensil, utilise, velites, violets, vittles, whistle, wiglets, wildest, wiliest, willets, wintles, witless, zloties.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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