different between pronghorn vs stag

English

Etymology

From prong +? horn.

Noun

pronghorn (plural pronghorn or pronghorns)

1. A North American mammal, Antilocapra americana, that resembles an antelope.
   • 2002, National Research Council, Ecological Dynamics on Yellowstone's Northern Range, unnumbered page,

     If historical records are accurate, the current population of about 250 pronghorn in the northern range is less than 15% of that in the early 1900s (YNP 1997) (Figure 4–7).

   • 2009, John A. Byers, Built for Speed: A Year in the Life of Pronghorn, page 6,

     When a pronghorn breaks into an easy, rocking canter (a 30 miles per hour pace that it can keep up indefinitely), the humerus swings back and forth over just a few inches with each stride. Only when a pronghorn stretches into a gallop does the humerus appear to be swinging freely, and then the hoof travels several yards with each stride.

   • 2011, Ted L. Clark, 13: Wildlife Management Programs, Goals, and Issues: The State Perspective, 1990, Raymond C. Telfair II (editor), Texas Wildlife Resources and Land Uses, page 220,

     For the 10-year period 1981-90 an additional 736 pronghorns were transplanted within the state.

     During 1980-90, pronghorn occupied about 13.5 million acres in the Trans-Pecos, High Plains, Rolling Plains, and Edwards Plateau ecological regions.

Synonyms

• (Antilocapra americana): pronghorn antelope

Translations

See also

• pronghorn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Antilopcapra americana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Antilopcapra americana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Alternative forms

• steg (dialectal), staig (Scotland), stagg, stagge (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *steg?-, *steng?- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

stag (countable and uncountable, plural stags)

1. (countable) An adult male deer.
2. (countable) A colt, or filly.
3. (by extension, countable, obsolete) A romping girl; a tomboy.
4. (countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
5. (countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
6. (countable, finance) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
7. (countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
8. (countable, usually attributive) An unmarried male, a bachelor; a male not accompanying a female at a social event.

   a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar

9. (countable) A social event for males held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom, sometimes a fund-raiser.

   The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.

10. (countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
    • 2007, Eric R. Eaton, Kenn Kaufman, Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America (page 132)

      Members of the genus Pasimachus […] can be confused with stag beetles […] but stags have elbowed antennae.

11. (uncountable, Britain, military, slang) Guard duty.
    • 2000, Richard Tomlinson, The big breach: from top secret to maximum security (page 31)

      Between shifts on stag or manning the radio, we grabbed a few hours sleep.

Synonyms

• (male deer): buck, hart
• (social event): bachelor party (US), stag do (UK informal), stag party, stag lunch

Hyponyms

• (male red deer): royal stag, imperial stag, monarch

Derived terms

Related terms

• bull

Translations

Verb

stag (third-person singular simple present stags, present participle stagging, simple past and past participle stagged)

1. (intransitive, Britain) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
2. (transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.

   Synonym: shadow

Translations

Adverb

stag (not comparable)

1. Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.

   My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.

Translations

See also

• bachelorette party, hen party

Anagrams

• ATGs, GATS, GTAs, Gast, TAGs, gast, gats, tags

Middle English

Noun

stag

1. Alternative form of stagge

Swedish

Noun

stag ?

1. (nautical) A stay.
2. An appliance with a function similar to a nautical stay.

Anagrams

• gast, sagt, tags