Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 176
Study (v. t.) To make an object of study; to aim at sedulously; to devote one's thoughts to; as, to study the welfare of others; to study variety in composition.
For their heart studieth destruction. -- Prov. xxiv. 2.
Study (n.) A detailed critical inspection [syn: survey, study].
Study (n.) Applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading); "mastering a second language requires a lot of work"; "no schools offer graduate study in interior design" [syn: study, work].
Study (n.) A written document describing the findings of some individual or group; "this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale" [syn: report, study, written report].
Study (n.) A state of deep mental absorption; "she is in a deep study".
Study (n.) A room used for reading and writing and studying; "he knocked lightly on the closed door of the study".
Study (n.) A branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" [syn: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick].
Study (n.) Preliminary drawing for later elaboration; "he made several studies before starting to paint" [syn: sketch, study].
Study (n.) Attentive consideration and meditation; "after much cogitation he rejected the offer" [syn: cogitation, study].
Study (n.) Someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play); "he is a quick study".
Study (n.) A composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique; "a study in spiccato bowing."
Study (v.) Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives" [syn: analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas].
Study (v.) Be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning.
Study (v.) Give careful consideration to; "consider the possibility of moving" [syn: study, consider].
Study (v.) Be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam" [syn: learn, study, read, take].
Study (v.) Learn by reading books; "He is studying geology in his room"; "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now" [syn: study, hit the books].
Study (v.) Think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes; "He is meditating in his study" [syn: study, meditate, contemplate].
Stufa (n.) A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.
Stuff (n.) 原料，要素，東西，材料，素質，織品，廢物，廢話 Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much. -- Ex. xxxvi. 7.
Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff. -- Shak.
The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill. -- Sir J. Davies.
Stuff (n.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience To do no contrived murder. -- Shak.
Stuff (n.) Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? -- Shak.
It [the arras] was of stuff and silk mixed, though, superior kinds were of silk exclusively. -- F. G. Lee.
Stuff (n.) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff. -- Hayward.
Stuff (n.) A medicine or mixture; a potion. -- Shak.
Stuff (n.) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
Anger would indite Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write. -- Dryden.
Stuff (n.) (Naut.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Stuff (n.) Paper stock ground ready for use.
Note: When partly ground, called half stuff. -- Knight.
Clear stuff. See under Clear.
Small stuff (Naut.), All kinds of small cordage. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Stuff gown, The distinctive garb of a junior barrister; hence, a junior barrister himself. See Silk gown, under Silk.
Stuffed (imp. & p. p.) of Stuff.
Stuffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stuff.
Stuff (v. t.) 裝填 To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown, And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown. -- Gay.
Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin. -- Dryden.
Stuff (v. t.) To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together . . . and they retain smell and color. -- Bacon.
Stuff (v. t.) To fill by being pressed or packed into.
With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode. -- Dryden.
Stuff (v. t.) (Cookery) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
Stuff (v. t.) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell. -- Shak.
Stuff (v. t.) To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
Stuff (v. t.) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal. -- Swift.
Stuff (v. t.) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
Stuff (v. t.) To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box). [U. S.]
Stuff (v. i.) 狼吞虎咽 To feed gluttonously; to cram.
Taught harmless man to cram and stuff. -- Swift.
Stuff (n.) The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" [syn: material, stuff].
Stuff (n.) Miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff".
Stuff (n.) Informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?" [syn: stuff, clobber].
Stuff (n.) Senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff" [syn: stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock].
Stuff (n.) Unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine".
Stuff (n.) Information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book".
Stuff (n.) A critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative".
Stuff (v.) Cram into a cavity; "The child stuffed candy into his pockets".
Stuff (v.) Press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand" [syn: thrust, stuff, shove, squeeze].
Stuff (v.) Obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked" [syn: stuff, lug, choke up, block] [ant: loosen up, unstuff].
Stuff (v.) Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out].
Stuff (v.) Treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin".
Stuff (v.) Fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers".
Stuff (v.) Fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?" [syn: farce, stuff].
Stuffer (n.) One who, or that which, stuffs.
Stuffer (n.) A craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display [syn: taxidermist, animal stuffer, stuffer].
Stuffer (n.) An advertising circular that is enclosed with other material and (usually) sent by mail.
Stuffiness (n.) The quality of being stuffy.
Stuffiness (n.) State of obstruction or stoppage or air in the nose or throat.
Stuffiness (n.) The quality of being close and poorly ventilated [syn: stuffiness, closeness].
Stuffiness (n.) Dull and pompous gravity [syn: stodginess, stuffiness].
Stuffing (n.) That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.
Stuffing (n.) (Cookery) Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing.
Stuffing (n.) A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
Stuffing box, A device for rendering a joint impervious where there is a hole through which a movable cylindrical body, as the paston rod of a steam engine, or the plunger of a pump, slides back and forth, or in which a shaft turns. It usually consists of a box or chamber, made by an enlargement of part of the hole, forming a space around the rod or shaft for containing packing which is compressed and made to fill the space closely by means of a sleeve, called the gland, which fits loosely around the rod, and is pressed upon the packing by bolts or other means.
Stuffing (n.) A mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables [syn: stuffing, dressing].
Stuffing (n.) Padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture.
Stuffy (a.) Stout; mettlesome; resolute. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Stuffy (a.) Angry and obstinate; sulky. [U. S.]
Stuffy (a.) Ill-ventilated; close.
Stuffy (a.) Lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke" [syn: airless, close, stuffy, unaired].
Stuffy (a.) Excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party" [syn: stodgy, stuffy].
Stuffy (a.) Affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction; "a stuffy feeling in my chest".
Stuke (n.) Stucco. [Obs.]
Stull (n.) [CF. Stum.] A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones. [Prov. Eng.]
Stulm (n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine. [Local, Eng.] -- Bailey.
Stulp (n.) A short, stout post used for any purpose, a to mark a boundary. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Stultification (n.) The act of
stultifying, or the state of being stultified.
Stultification (n.) Derision of someone or something
as foolish or absurd or inconsistent [syn: stultification,
befooling].
Stultification (n.) The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) [syn: stultification, constipation, impairment, deadening].
Stultifier (n.) One who stultifies.
Stultified (imp. & p. p.) of Stultify.
Stultifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stultify.
Stultify (v. t.) To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct. -- Burke.
Stultify (v. t.) To regard as a fool, or as foolish. [R.]
The modern sciolist stultifies all understanding but his own, and that which he conceives like his own. -- Hazlitt.
Stultify (v. t.) (Law) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.
Stultify (v.) Prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence; "nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself".
Stultify (v.) Cause to appear foolish; "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent".
Stultify (v.) Deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work" [syn: cripple, stultify].
Stultiloquence (n.) Silly talk; babbling.
Stultiloquent (a.) Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling. -- Stul*til"o*quent*ly, adv.
Stultiloquy (n.) [L. stultiloquium.] Foolish talk; silly discource; babbling. -- Jer. Taylor.
Stulty (a.) [L. stultus foolish.] Foolish; silly. [Obs.] -- Testament of Love.
Stum (n.) Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must.
Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine. -- B. Jonson.
And with
thy stum ferment their fainting cause. -- Dryden.
Stum (n.) Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the
admixture of must. -- Hudibras.
Stummed (imp. & p. p.) of Stum.
Stumming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stum.
Stum (v. t.) To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
We stum our wines to renew their spirits. -- Floyer.
Stumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Stumble.
Stumbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stumble.
Stumble (v. i.) 絆倒，失足，失策，犯錯，蹣跚，躊躇 To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.
There stumble steeds strong and down go all. -- Chaucer.
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble. -- Prov. iv. 19.
Stumble (v. i.) To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
He stumbled up the dark avenue. -- Sir W. Scott.
Stumble (v. i.) To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion og stumbling in him. --1 John ii. 10.
Stumble (v. i.) To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against.
Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath. -- Dryden.
Forth as she waddled in the brake, A gray goose stumbled on a snake. -- C. Smart.
Stumble (v. t.) 使絆倒，使困惑 To cause to stumble or trip.
Stumble (v. t.) Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.
False and dazzling fires to stumble men. -- Milton.
One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis. -- Locke.
Stumble (n.) 絆倒，失策 A trip in walking or running.
Stumble (n.) A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. -- L'Estrange.
Stumble (n.) An unsteady uneven gait [syn: lurch, stumble, stagger].
Stumble (n.) An unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep" [syn: trip, trip-up, stumble, misstep]
Stumble (v.) Walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about" [syn: stumble, falter, bumble].
Stumble (v.) Miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root" [syn: stumble, trip].
Stumble (v.) Encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant" [syn: stumble, hit].
Stumble (v.)4: Make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name" [syn: stumble, slip up, trip up].
Stumbler (n.) One who stumbles.
Stumbler (n.) A walker or runner who trips and almost falls [syn: stumbler, tripper].
Stumbler (n.)
Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence [syn: bungler,
blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, butcher,
fuckup].
Stumbling-block (n.) Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or
error.
We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness. -- 1 Cor. i. 23.
Stumblingly (adv.) In a stumbling manner.
Stumbling-stone (n.) A stumbling-block.
This stumbling-stone we hope to take away. -- T. Burnet.
Stump (n.) [C]（樹倒或被砍後遺留下的）殘幹，根株；殘餘部分；殘肢；（鉛筆）頭；（菸）蒂；【口】腿；義肢 [P] The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
Stump (n.) The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.
Stump (n.) pl. The legs; as, to stir one's stumps. [Slang]
Stump (n.) (Cricket) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
Stump (n.) A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.
Stump (n.) A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
{Leg stump} (Cricket), The stump nearest to the batsman.
{Off stump} (Cricket), The stump farthest from the batsman.
{Stump tracery} (Arch.), A term used to describe late German Gothic tracery, in which the molded bar seems to pass through itself in its convolutions, and is then cut off short, so that a section of the molding is seen at the end of each similar stump.
{To go on the stump}, or {To take the stump}, To engage in making public addresses for electioneering purposes; -- a phrase derived from the practice of using a stump for a speaker's platform in newly-settled districts. Hence also the phrases stump orator, stump speaker, stump speech, stump oratory, etc. [Colloq. U.S.]
{On the stump} Campaigning for public office; running for election to office.
Stumped (imp. & p. p.) of Stump.
Stumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stump.
Stump (v. t.) 砍去……的幹；清除……的樹樁（或根樁）；【美】在……作巡迴政治演說 To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
Around the stumped top soft moss did grow. -- Dr. H. More.
Stump (v. t.) To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub. [Colloq.]
Stump (v. t.) To challenge; also, to nonplus. [Colloq.]
Stump (v. t.) To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under {Stump}, n. [Colloq. U.S.]
Stump (n.) (Cricket) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out. -- T. Hughes.
Stump (n.) (Cricket) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
A herd of boys with clamor bowled, And stumped the wicket. -- Tennyson.
{To stump it}, To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape. [Slang] -- Ld. Lytton.
{To stump it}, To make electioneering speeches. [Colloq. U.S.]
Stump (n.) The base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled [syn: {stump}, {tree stump}].
Stump (n.) The part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed.
Stump (n.) (Cricket) Any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket.
Stump (n.) A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it [syn: {dais}, {podium}, {pulpit}, {rostrum}, {ambo}, {stump}, {soapbox}].
Stump (v.) Cause to be perplexed or confounded; "This problem stumped her" [syn: {stump}, {mix up}].
Stump (v.) Walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots" [syn: {stomp}, {stamp}, {stump}].
Stump (v.) Travel through a district and make political speeches; "the candidate stumped the Northeast".
Stump (v.) Remove tree stumps from; "stump a field".
Stump (v. i.) To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
{To stump up}, To pay cash. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Stumpage (n.) Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared. [Local, U.S.]
Only trees above a certain size are allowed to be cut by loggers buying stumpage from the owners of land. -- C. S. Sargent.
Stumpage (n.) A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber. [Local, U.S.] -- The Nation.
Stumper (n.) One who stumps.
Stumper (n.) A boastful person. [Slang]
Stumper (n.) A puzzling or incredible story. [Slang, U.S.]
Stumper (n.) A particularly difficult or baffling question or problem [syn: poser, stumper, toughie, sticker].
Stumpiness (n.) The state of being stumpy.
Stump-tailed (a.) Having a short, thick tail.
Stump-tailed lizard (Zool.), A singular Australian scincoid lizard ({Trachydosaurus rugosus) having a short, thick tail resembling its head in form; -- called also sleeping lizard.
Stumpy (a.) Full of stumps; hard; strong.
Stumpy (a.) Short and thick; stubby. [Colloq.] "A stumpy little man." -- J. C. Harris.
Stumpy (a.) Short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure" [syn: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy].
Stunned (imp. & p. p.) of Stun.
Stunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stun.
Stun (n.) 打昏；昏迷；驚倒，驚歎；令人震驚的事物；令人驚歎的事物 The condition of being stunned.
Stun (v. t.) 把……打昏，使昏迷；使大吃一驚；使目瞪口呆 [H]；把……震聾 To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head.
One hung a poleax at his saddlebow, And one a heavy mace to stun the foe. -- Dryden.
Stun (v. t.) To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.
And stunned him with the music of the spheres. -- Pope.
Stun (v. t.) To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.
William was quite stunned at my discourse. -- De Foe.
Stun (v.) Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish" [syn: {stun}, {stupefy}].
Stun (v.) Hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag [syn: {sandbag}, {stun}].
Stun (v.) Overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her" [syn: {stun}, {bedaze}, {daze}].
STUN (acronym) Simple Traversal of UDP through NAT (SIP, UDP, NAT, VoIP).
Stun (n.) The condition of being stunned.
Stung () imp. & p. p. of Sting.
Stunk () imp. & p. p. of Stink.
Stunner (n.) 使人暈倒者；致昏迷的一擊；絕妙的東西；尤物 One who, or that which, stuns.
Stunner (n.) Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. [Slang] -- Thackeray.
Stunner (n.) A very attractive or seductive looking woman [syn: {smasher}, {stunner}, {knockout}, {beauty}, {ravisher}, {sweetheart}, {peach}, {lulu}, {looker}, {mantrap}, {dish}].
Stunner (n.) An unexpected and amazing event; "the stunner was what happened on Saturday".
Stunning (a.) 令人暈倒的；震耳欲聾的；令人震驚的 Mind-bogglingly stupid. Usually used in sarcasm. ?You want to code what in Ada? That's a ... stunning idea!?
Stunning (a.) Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.
Stunning (a.) Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry. [Slang] -- C. Kingsley. -- {Stun"ning*ly}, adv. [Slang]
Stunning (a.) Commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance" [syn: {arresting}, {sensational}, {stunning}].
Stunning (a.) Causing great astonishment and consternation; "the strike came as a stunning protest against management"; "a stunning defeat".
Stunning (a.) Causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility; "laid the poor fellow senseless with one stunning blow"; "a stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke".
Stunning (a.) Strikingly beautiful or attractive; "quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"; "stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas".