Stilting vs. Stilling — What's the Difference?

Either of a pair of long, slender poles each equipped with a raised footrest to enable the user to walk elevated above the ground.

Stilling is a surname.

Any of various tall posts or pillars used as support, as for a dock or building:a beach house on stilts.

Not moving or in motion

Any of several shorebirds of the widely distributed genus Himantopus or the Australian genus Cladorhynchus that have long pink legs, usually black-and-white plumage, and a long slender bill.

Free from disturbance, agitation, or commotion

To place or raise on stilts.

Of or relating to a single or static photograph as opposed to a movie.

Present participle of stilt

Making or characterized by no sound or faint sound

Stilted language or movement.

Not carbonated; lacking effervescence

A structure made of stilts.

Silence; quiet

A still photograph, especially one taken from a scene of a movie and used for promotional purposes.

A still-life picture.

Without movement; motionlessly

At the present time; for the present

Up to or at a specified time; yet

At a future time; eventually

In increasing amount or degree; even

In addition; besides

All the same; nevertheless.

To make motionless or unagitated

To make quiet; silence

To allay or calm

To become still.

The act by which something is made still.

A stillion.

A stillion.