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sting
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)
- A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
- A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.
- A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
- Synonym: stinger
- A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermis
- (botany) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
- The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
- (law enforcement) A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.
- A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
- A brief sequence of music used in films, TV, and video games as a form of scenic punctuation or to identify the broadcasting station.
- A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
- (figuratively) The harmful or painful part of something.
- A goad; incitement.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint
- 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)
- (transitive, intransitive) To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
- (transitive, of an insect or arachnid) To puncture with the stinger.
- (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain (physically or emotionally).
- (figuratively) To cause harm or pain to.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- GTINs, Tings, gnits, tings
Middle English
Noun
sting
- 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)
- a stitch (in sewing and surgery)
- 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)
- stitch (pain in the side)
sting n (definite singular stinget, indefinite plural sting, definite plural stinga)
- 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
- sting, stinging (of an animal)
Descendants
- Middle English: stynge, stenge, sting, steng
- English: sting
- Scots: sting
Romanian
Verb
sting
- first-person singular present indicative of stinge
- first-person singular present subjunctive of stinge
- third-person plural present indicative of stinge
Swedish
Pronunciation
Verb
sting
- 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)
- (transitive, intransitive) To sting, stab, gore.
Derived terms
- naut-stongän, naut-ståkkä
- mark-stongen
Related terms
- stang
- stöing
sting From the web:
- what stings
- what stingray killed steve
- what sting hurts the most
- what stingy means
- what stingray killed steve irwin
- what stingrays eat
- what stings coyotito
- what stings in the ocean
grieve
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /??i?v/
- Rhymes: -i?v
Etymology 1
From Middle English greven, from Old French grever (“to burden”), from Latin grav?, grav?re, from adjective gravis (“grave”).
Verb
grieve (third-person singular simple present grieves, present participle grieving, simple past and past participle grieved)
- (transitive) To cause sorrow or distress to.
- Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.
- Thy maidens griev'd themselves at my concern.
- (transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
- to grieve one's fate
- (intransitive) To experience grief.
- (transitive, archaic) To harm.
- (transitive) To submit or file a grievance (about).
- 2009 D'Amico, Rob, Editor, Texas Teacher, published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); "Austin classified employees gain due process rights", April 2009, p14:
- Even if the executive director rules against the employee on appeal, the employee can still grieve the termination to the superintendent followed by an appeal to the [...] Board of Trustees.
- 2009 D'Amico, Rob, Editor, Texas Teacher, published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); "Austin classified employees gain due process rights", April 2009, p14:
Derived terms
- begrieve
- grieved
- griever
- grievingly
Related terms
- grievance
- grievous
- grief
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English greve, greyve, grave, grafe, from Old Norse greifi, from Middle Low German gr?ve, grâve,related to Old English grœfa, groefa, variants of Old English ?er?fa (“steward, reeve”). More at reeve.
Noun
grieve (plural grieves)
- (obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
- (chiefly Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
Derived terms
- grieveship
Anagrams
- regive
Old French
Verb
grieve
- third-person singular present indicative of grever
grieve From the web:
- what grieves the holy spirit
- what grieves god
- what grieve mean
- what grieves god's heart the most
- what grief
- what grieves the spirit
- what grief looks like
- what grief means
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