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Definition: Stile |
StileNoun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | An outer, vertical member of a sash. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Stile |
| English words defined with "stile": Azimuth dial ♦ Diminishing stile ♦ Montant ♦ Parting strip ♦ Stop 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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Movie/TV Titles | Esercizi di stile (1996) V russkom stile (1991) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Miguel de Cervantes | You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | There was a stile to pass from this field into the next. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.8% | 222 | 20,237 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.2% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 227 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Stile | Last name | 200 | 31,066 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "stile": Diminishing stile ♦ Hanging stile ♦ help a lame dog over a stile ♦ pulley stile. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "stile": ladder-stile, narrow-stile, squeeze-stile. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 escada (ladder, stair, staircase, stairs, stairway), degrau (degree, footstep, grade, rung, stair, step), couceira. (various references) pârleaz, barierã (bar, barrier, border, dike, fence, fencing, gate, grating, hindrance, lifting gate, obstruction, Pike, screen, turnpike). (various references) турникет (tourniquet, turnstile, wicket), приступок. (various references) drveni vratnik, deo na ogradi. (various references) larguero (crossbar, lavish, lengthy, slow-working, Stringer, support), escalera para pasar una cerca. (various references) dörrpost (cheek, doorjamb, doorpost). (various references) วงกบหน้าต่างหรือประตู, ประตูหมุน, ขั้นบันไ"ติ"ข้างรั้วหรือกำแพง. (various references) pencere çerçevesi (sash, window frame), dikey çıta, çit merdiveni, çit basamağı. (various references) сзідці, турнікет (tourniquet, turnstile, wicket), покажчик (alphabet, cursor, designator, finger, indicator, pointer). (various references) bậc trèo. (various references) sticil, camfa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stile" (pronounced stī"l) |
| 4 | s t ī" l | restyle, style. |
| 3 | -t ī" l | tile. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 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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