different between sting vs blister

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English stynge, sting, stenge, from Old English sting, stin?? (“a sting, stab, thrust made with a pointed instrument; the wound made by a stab or sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stangiz.

Noun

sting (plural stings)

1. A bump left on the skin after having been stung.

2. A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.

3. A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.

   Synonym: stinger

4. A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermis

5. (botany) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
6. The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
7. (law enforcement) A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.

8. A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
9. A brief sequence of music used in films, TV, and video games as a form of scenic punctuation or to identify the broadcasting station.
10. A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
11. (figuratively) The harmful or painful part of something.
12. A goad; incitement.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint
13. The concluding point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.

Synonyms

• (pointed portion of an insect or arachnid): stinger

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English stingen, from Old English stingan, from Proto-Germanic *stingan?. Compare Swedish and Icelandic stinga.

Verb

sting (third-person singular simple present stings, present participle stinging, simple past and past participle stung or (rare, dialectal) stang)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.

2. (transitive, of an insect or arachnid) To puncture with the stinger.
3. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain (physically or emotionally).
4. (figuratively) To cause harm or pain to.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• GTINs, Tings, gnits, tings

Middle English

Noun

sting

1. Alternative form of stynge

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the verb stinge

Noun

sting n (definite singular stinget, indefinite plural sting, definite plural stinga or stingene)

1. a stitch (in sewing and surgery)
2. stitch (pain in the side)

References

• “sting” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb stinge

Noun

sting m (definite singular stingen, indefinite plural stingar or stinger, definite plural stingane or stingene)

1. stitch (pain in the side)

sting n (definite singular stinget, indefinite plural sting, definite plural stinga)

1. a stitch (in sewing and surgery)

References

• “sting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stangiz; akin to stingan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stin?/, [sti??]

Noun

sting m

1. sting, stinging (of an animal)

Descendants

• Middle English: stynge, stenge, sting, steng
  • English: sting
  • Scots: sting

Romanian

Verb

sting

1. first-person singular present indicative of stinge
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of stinge
3. third-person plural present indicative of stinge

Swedish

Pronunciation

Verb

sting

1. imperative of stinga.

Anagrams

• tings

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse stinga, from Proto-Germanic *stingan?. Compare Icelandic, Faroese stinga, Swedish stinga, sticka, stånga, English sting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²st(e)i??/

  Rhymes: -ì??

Verb

sting, stikk (present stikk, preterite stang or stakk, plural ståkk, supine ståkkä, past participle stongän or ståkkä)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To sting, stab, gore.

Derived terms

• naut-stongän, naut-ståkkä
• mark-stongen

Related terms

• stang
• stöing

English

Etymology

From Middle English blister, from Old French blestre, from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Dutch blyster (“swelling”), Old Norse blastr (“a blowing”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bl?st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(r)

Noun

blister (plural blisters)

1. A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
   • 1967, Donald Howard Grainger, Don't Die in the Bundu

     Inspect them for rub marks and blisters; tape or bandage rub marks; clean the skin around a blister, use a sterilised needle to puncture it at its outer edge and press out the fluid, then bandage.

2. A swelling on a plant.
3. (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.168:

     'T is written in the Hebrew Chronicle, / How the physicians, leaving pill and potion, / Prescribed, by way of blister, a young belle, / When old King David's blood grew dull in motion, / And that the medicine answered very well […]

4. A bubble, as on a painted surface.
5. (roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
6. A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.

7. a cause of annoyance
   • 1923 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse The Inimitable Jeeves page 39

     I couldn't help thinking how dashed happy I could have contrived to be in this place if only Aunt Agatha and the other blisters had been elsewhere.

   • 1933 Collier's Illustrated Weekly, Volume 91 page 14

     I will say, however, that we fanned her well — her and her old blister of a mother and a bewhisk- ered old goat named Boris.

   • 2013 P.G. Wodehouse, Blandings: TV Tie-In page 126

     'We mustn't laugh about it, my boy. It's no joking matter. It's very wrong to shoot Mr Baxter.'
     'But he's a blister.'
     'He is a blister,' agreed Lord Emsworth, always fairminded. 'Nevertheless. . . . Remember, he is your tutor.'

   • 2017 Joe Archibald, The Willie Klump MEGAPACK® page 302

     Willie suddenly realized the heat really wasn't off the criminal persons, and he sprang into action. The blonde blister also recovered surprisingly fast and threw the big wordy tome at the Klump coco .

Synonyms

• bleb
• blain

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

blister (third-person singular simple present blisters, present participle blistering, simple past and past participle blistered)

1. (transitive) To raise blisters on.
2. (intransitive) To have a blister form.
3. (transitive) To criticise severely.
4. (intransitive) To break out in blisters.

Synonyms

• vesicate

Translations

Anagrams

• Bitlers, Bristle, Liberts, bristle, reblits, riblets

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English blister (“blister; blister pack”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?s.t?r/
• Hyphenation: blis?ter

Noun

blister m (plural blisters, diminutive blistertje n)

1. blister pack

   Synonyms: doordrukstrip, blisterpak, blisterverpakking

French

Noun

blister m (plural blisters)

1. blister pack

Polish

Etymology

From English blister.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?i.st?r/

Noun

blister m inan

1. blister pack

Declension

Further reading

• blister in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• blister in Polish dictionaries at PWN