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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
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scrape
English
Etymology
From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrap?n?, *skrepan? (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb- (“to engrave”). Cognate with Dutch schrapen (“to scrape”), schrappen (“to strike through; to cancel; to scrap”), schrabben (“to scratch”), German schrappen (“to scrape”), Danish skrabe (“to scrape”), Icelandic skrapa (“to scrape”), Walloon screper (“to scrape”), Latin scrib? (“dig with a pen, draw, write”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: skr?p, IPA(key): /sk?e?p/
- Rhymes: -e?p
Verb
scrape (third-person singular simple present scrapes, present participle scraping, simple past and past participle scraped)
- (transitive, intransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- (transitive) To barely manage to achieve.
- (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- (computing) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- (transitive, intransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
- To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
- 1841, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings
- All the various kinds of interest which 80 strongly against the accused , that his friends belong to the near and to the distant , to the were coughed and scraped down.
- 1841, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings
Synonyms
- (draw an object along while exerting pressure): grate, scratch, drag
- (injure by scraping): abrade, chafe, graze
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
scrape (countable and uncountable, plural scrapes)
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- (Britain, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- 1972, in U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Abuse of psychiatry for political repression in the Soviet Union. Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, second session, United States Government Printing Office, page 127,
- It’s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis ‘danger of miscarriage’, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself.
- 1980, John Cobb, Babyshock: A Mother’s First Five Years, Hutchinson, page 232,
- In expert hands abortion nowadays is almost the same as having a scrape (D & C) and due to improved techniques such as suction termination, and improved lighter anaesthetic, most women feel no worse than having a tooth out.
- 1985, Beverley Raphael, The Anatomy of Bereavement: a handbook for the caring professions, Routledge, ?ISBN, page 236,
- The loss is significant to the woman and will be stated as such by her. For her it is not “nothing,” “just a scrape,” or “not a life.” It is the beginning of a baby. Years later, she may recall it not just as a miscarriage but also as a baby that was lost.
- 1999, David Jenkins, Listening to Gynaecological Patients\ Problems, Springer, ?ISBN, page 16,
- 17.Have you had a scrape or curettage recently?
- 1972, in U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Abuse of psychiatry for political repression in the Soviet Union. Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, second session, United States Government Printing Office, page 127,
- A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
- 1948, in Behaviour: An International Journal of Comparative Ethology, E. J. Brill, page 103,
- We knew from U. Weidmann’s work (1956) that Black-headed Gulls could be prevented from laying by offering them eggs on the empty scrape veil before […]
- 2000, Charles A. Taylor, The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia, Kingfisher Publications, ?ISBN, page 85,
- The plover lays its eggs in a scrape on the ground. ¶ […] ¶ Birds’ nests can be little more than a scrape in the ground or a delicate structure of plant material, mud, and saliva.
- 2006, Les Beletsky, Birds of the World, Johns Hopkins University Press, ?ISBN, page 95,
- Turkey females place their eggs in a shallow scrape in a hidden spot on the ground. Young are born ready to leave the nest and feed themselves (eating insects for their first few weeks).
- 1948, in Behaviour: An International Journal of Comparative Ethology, E. J. Brill, page 103,
- (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- 2014, Harry Turtledove, Hitler's War
- In between rounds, he dug a scrape for himself with his entrenching tool.
- 2014, Harry Turtledove, Hitler's War
- (Britain, slang, obsolete) A shave.
- 1945, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire (page 66)
- A'm goin to the barber's for a scrape.
- 1945, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire (page 66)
- (uncountable, Britain, slang, obsolete) Cheap butter.
- (uncountable, Britain, slang, obsolete) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.
Quotations
- 2001, Carolyn Cooke, The Bostons, Houghton Mifflin Books, ?ISBN, page 172–173,
- He could hear deer moo in the woods, smell their musk, spot a scrape in a birch tree twenty feet away.
- 2005, Dragan Vujic, Hunting Farm Country Whitetails, iUniverse, ?ISBN, page 58,
- Female whitetails periodically investigate scrapes created by specific bucks. As the doe approaches estrus and becomes receptive to breeding, she will urinate in a scrape as a sharp signal to the buck that she is ready for him.
Synonyms
- (injury): abrasion, graze
- (fight): altercation, brawl, fistfight, fight, fisticuffs, punch-up, scuffle
- (awkward set of circumstances): bind, fix, mess, pickle
- See also Thesaurus:injury
Derived terms
- bread and scrape
Translations
References
- (a shave; butter): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
- CASREP, Casper, Pacers, Scaper, capers, crapes, e-scrap, escarp, pacers, parsec, recaps, scaper, secpar, spacer
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