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stab
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: st?b, IPA(key): /stæb/
- Hyphenation: stab
- Rhymes: -æb
Etymology 1
First attested in Scottish English (compare Scots stob, stobbe, stabb (“a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon”)), from Middle English stabbe (“a stab”), probably a variant of Middle English stob, stub, stubbe (“pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump”), from Old Norse stobbi, stubbi, cognate with Old English stybb. Cognate with Middle Dutch stobbe.
Supposed by some to derive from Scottish Gaelic stob (“to prick, to prod, to push, to thrust”); supposed by others to be from a Scots word.
Noun
stab (plural stabs)
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
- (informal) An attempt.
- I'll give this thankless task a stab.
- Criticism.
- (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- a horn stab
- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
stab (third-person singular simple present stabs, present participle stabbing, simple past and past participle stabbed)
- (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
- None shall dare / With shortened sword to stab in closer war.
- (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- (transitive, figuratively) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- (transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- (transitive) To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
Derived terms
- stabbee
- stabber
Translations
References
- stab in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- stab at OneLook Dictionary Search
Etymology 2
Clipping of stabilizer or stabiliser.
Noun
stab (plural stabs)
- (aviation, slang) The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
Etymology 3
Adjective
stab (not comparable)
- (industrial relations) Clipping of established.
- 1893, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia (page 313)
- Do you know whether any country offices pay their men by the thousand, or whether they are on stab wages? — I do not know. Some are paid stab wages, but I do not know whether there is much piece-work.
- 1967, John Child, Industrial Relations in the British Printing Industry (page 113)
- The pressmen were granted a stab wage of 36s for a 60 hour week, and the extras for overtime and Sunday work […]
- 1893, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia (page 313)
Noun
stab (plural not attested)
- (industrial relations) Clipping of establishment.
- 1892, The British Printer (volume 5, page 42)
- […] there were 286 overseers and 210 readers occupied in the 501 offices; 2,691 compositors were paid on the stab […]
- 1892, The British Printer (volume 5, page 42)
Anagrams
- ABTs, ATBs, ATSB, Bast, Bats, SATB, TBAs, TBSA, Tabs, bast, bats, tabs
Danish
Etymology
From German Stab.
Noun
stab c (singular definite staben, plural indefinite stabe)
- staff
Inflection
Lushootseed
Etymology
Proto-Salish *s-tam ("what?"; "something"), from *s- +? *tam (“thing; what”)
Determiner
stab
- what (interrogative pronoun)
- thing
Swedish
Etymology
From German Stab.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??b/
Noun
stab c
- a staff
Declension
References
Anagrams
- bast
stab From the web:
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goad
English
Etymology
From Middle English gode, from Old English g?d (“goad”), from Proto-Germanic *gaid? (compare Old Norse gedda (“pike (fish)”), Lombardic gaida (“spear”)), from Proto-Indo-European *??ey- (compare Old Irish gath (“spear”), Sanskrit ??????? (hinvati), ?????? (hinoti, “to urge on, throw”), ???? (heti, “missile, projectile”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?o?d/
- Rhymes: -??d
Noun
goad (plural goads)
- A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
- (figuratively) That which goads or incites; a stimulus.
Translations
Verb
goad (third-person singular simple present goads, present participle goading, simple past and past participle goaded)
- To prod with a goad.
- To encourage or stimulate.
- To incite or provoke.
Translations
See also
- goat
Anagrams
- Goda, dago, doga
Scots
Etymology
From Old English god, of Germanic origin.
Noun
goad (plural goads)
- God
goad From the web:
- what goad mean
- what goat mean
- what goat stands for
- what goats eat
- what goats are best for milk
- what goats stay small
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