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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stile
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
cross
▪ Follow Mill Beck, crossing the footbridge and stiles.
▪ After 200yds cross a stile on the left.
▪ Follow a wooden fence to cross a stile and head to the waymarked gate downhill from the farm buildings on the left.
▪ Walk down the narrow road and cross the ladder stile on the left into a field.
▪ At the end cross a stile by the gate and take the road to the T junction.
▪ Go right around building and cross stiles east to Towednack Church.
▪ As he crossed the stile into the first field, Mungo felt a pang of shame at telling Alice a lie.
▪ Track crosses bridge, then immediately turn right to leave track and cross stile; cross another field to stile ahead.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A bend in the path brought him to a stile at the entrance to Lulling Woods.
▪ Continue down field to stile and road.
▪ Continue on a clear path up the hillside to reach a stile on the ridge.
▪ Cross the stile and follow the path to join the lane at Cwmyoy.
▪ Cross the footbridge and follow the steep zig-zag path up to the wall and the ladder stile.
▪ Pass through this and cross the meadow to reach a metal gate with a stone stile at the side of it.
▪ Proceed down slope in second field to stile ahead.
▪ Proceed down slope in second field to stile by electricity post, then ascend third field to gate in front of farm.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stile

Stile \Stile\, n. [See Style.]

  1. A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style.
    --Moxon.

  2. Mode of composition. See Style. [Obs.]

    May I not write in such a stile as this?
    --Bunyan.

Stile

Stile \Stile\, n. [OE. stile, AS. stigel a step, a ladder, from st[=i]gan to ascend; akin to OHG. stigila a stile. [root]164. See Sty, v. i., and cf. Stair.]

  1. A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall.

    There comes my master . . . over the stile, this way.
    --Shak.

    Over this stile in the way to Doubting Castle.
    --Bunyan.

  2. (Arch.) One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.

    Note: In an ordinary door the principal upright pieces are called stiles, the subordinate upright pieces mullions, and the crosspieces rails. In wainscoting the principal pieces are sometimes called stiles, even when horizontal.

    Hanging stile, Pulley stile. See under Hanging, and Pulley.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stile

Old English stigel, stile "device for climbing, ladder," related to stigen "to climb," from Proto-Germanic *stig- "to climb" (see stair). An arrangement to allow persons to pass but not sheep and cattle.

Wiktionary
stile

n. 1 A set of steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass. 2 A vertical component of a panel or frame, such as that of a door or window. 3 A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. 4 (context obsolete English) A mode of composition; a style.

WordNet
stile

n. an upright that is a member in a door or window frame

Wikipedia
Stile

A stile is a structure which provides people a passage through or over a fence or boundary via steps, ladders, or narrow gaps. Stiles are often built in rural areas along footpaths, fences, walls or hedges to prevent farm animals moving from one enclosure to another whilst allowing path users still to use the route.

Stile (disambiguation)

A stile is a structure such as steps allowing pedestrians to cross a hedge or fence. Stile may also mean:

  • Ashok Leyland STiLE, a MPV manufactured by Ashok Leyland.
  • Chapel Stile, a hamlet in the parish of Lakes, Cumbria, in northwest England
  • High Stile, a mountain in the western part of the Lake District in northwest England
  • Stile antico ("ancient style"), a style of music composition
  • Stile concitato ("agitated style"), a Baroque style of music
  • Stile Project or StileNET, formerly a counter-culture website
  • Rail and stile, or frame and panel, a woodworking construction technique
  • Stile moderno ("modern style") or seconda pratica, a style of music composition
  • Stile, a side of a backdrop in a theatre: see Flats (theatre)
  • Stile, the main character in the Apprentice Adept series by Piers Anthony

Usage examples of "stile".

If she were getting over a stile, she gripped his hands in a little hard anguish, and began to lose her presence of mind.

Stile could handle a difficult horse as well as an easy one, bareback as well as saddled.

Stile, but none matched his total expertise, Stile could handle a difficult horse as well as an easy one, bareback as well as saddled.

When the approaching mosso sensed his presence and slowed to a stop, he dropped a coin in the stile and stepped on.

He was good on the theremin, Stile was quite ready to challenge in the classification of music, but would prefer a normal, hand-powered instrument.

Blue Demesnes, Stile uninvoked the spells, became visible and full-weight, and turned Neysa out to graze.

Ezra Stiles, president of Yale, in a letter informing Adams that he had received an honorary degree from Yale, said he rejoiced at the thought of Adams for Vice President.

Laurette would sometimes seat herself upon a stile or a fragment of rock, and taking her lute, which she knew how to touch with exquisite pathos, would play some charming air which she accompanied with her voice, till the soul of Enrico was lost in an extasy of delight, from which he was reluctantly awakened.

If a person who prys into the characters of others, with no other design but to discover their faults, and to publish them to the world, deserves the title of a slanderer of the reputations of men, why should not a critic, who reads with the same malevolent view, be as properly stiled the slanderer of the reputation of books?

Grandpa Stile and Granddam Neysa told me that, and showed me how it be so, and I believe it.

Stile wondered whether the citizens of ancient Harappa, in the Indian subcontinent of Earth, had had a similar attitude.

Chapter 8 A battle sung by the muse in the Homerican stile, and which none but the classical reader can taste Mr.

I cannot believe that Jones was designedly tempted by his fair one to look behind him, yet as she frequently wanted his assistance help her over stiles, and had besides many trips and other accidents, he was often obliged to turn about.

But Stile slapped him lightly on the flank with the free end of the leadline, startling him into motion.

Congregational pastors, Samuel Hopkins, the theologian, and the erudite Ezra Stiles, afterward president of Yale College, mutually opposed in theology and contrasted at every point of natural character, were at one in boldly opposing the business by which their parishioners had been enriched.