Spife vs. Spire — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Spife and Spire
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Definitions
Spife➦
A hybrid utensil combining a spoon and a knife.
Spire➦
A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a roughly conical or pyramidal shape.
Spire➦
A top part or structure that tapers upward, such as a rock formation or steeple.
Spire➦
A slender, tapering plant part.
Spire➦
A spiral.
Spire➦
A single turn of a spiral; a whorl.
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Spire➦
The area farthest from the aperture and nearest the apex on a coiled gastropod shell.
Spire➦
To furnish with a spire.
Spire➦
To rise and taper steeply.
Spire➦
The stalk or stem of a plant.
Spire➦
A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
Spire➦
Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
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Spire➦
A sharp or tapering point.
Spire➦
(architectural element) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
The spire of the church rose high above the town.
Spire➦
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
Spire➦
(mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
Spire➦
One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
Spire➦
A spiral.
Spire➦
(geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
Spire➦
(of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
Spire➦
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
Spire➦
(transitive) To furnish with a spire.
Spire➦
To breathe.
Spire➦
To breathe.
Spire➦
To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.
It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms.
Spire➦
A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.
An oak cometh up a little spire.
Spire➦
A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself.
A spire of land that stand apart,Cleft from the main.
Tall spire from which the sound of cheerful bellsJust undulates upon the listening ear.
Spire➦
A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
Spire➦
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
The spire and top of praises.
Spire➦
A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
Spire➦
A tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
