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stud
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English stood, stod, from Old English st?d, from Proto-Germanic *st?d?. Cognate with Middle Low German st?t, German Stute, Dutch stoet and Old Norse stóð.
Pronunciation
- enPR: st?d, IPA(key): /st?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Noun
stud (plural studs)
- A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
- Synonym: sire
- A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
- (by extension, collective) A group of such animals.
- An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
- A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
- 1673, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland
- In the studs of persons of quality in Ireland, where care is taken, […] we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, and size.
- 1673, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland
- (colloquial) A sexually attractive male; also a lover in great demand.
- Synonyms: he-man, hunk, stallion
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old English studu.
Noun
stud (plural studs)
- A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
- (jewelry) A small round earring.
- (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
- (obsolete) A stem; a trunk.
- Seest not this same hawthorn stud?
- (poker) A type of poker where an individual cannot throw cards away and some of her cards are exposed.
- Synonym: stud poker
- (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
- (engineering) A stud bolt.
- An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
Derived terms
- studded
Translations
Verb
stud (third-person singular simple present studs, present participle studding, simple past and past participle studded)
- To set with studs; to furnish with studs.
- To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
- To set (something) over a surface at intervals.
- 2010, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Rose's Heavenly Cakes:
- Stud the cake all over with chocolate chips, pointed ends in.
- 2010, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Rose's Heavenly Cakes:
Etymology 3
Noun
stud (plural studs)
- Clipping of student.
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams
- Dust, UDTs, dust, duts
Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *stud? (“cold, shame”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?stut]
Noun
stud m
- shame (uncomfortable or painful feeling)
Related terms
- nestoudný m
- nestydatý m
- ostuda f
- ostudný m
- styd?t se
- stydký m
Further reading
- stud in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- stud in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?sd?u?ð], [?sd?uð?]
- Rhymes: -u??ð
Noun
stud c (singular definite studen, plural indefinite stude)
- bullock, steer
- boor, oaf
Declension
References
- “stud” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Noun
stud m (plural studs, diminutive studje n)
- colloquial (in the Netherlands) abbreviation of student
References
- M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
French
Etymology
From English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /styd/
Noun
stud m (plural studs)
- stud where stallions and mares are bred to improve the equine race
- assembly of horses for sale or racing
References
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *stud?.
Noun
st?d f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- (expressively) cold
Declension
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excrescence
English
Etymology
From Middle English, early 15th century, in sense “(action of) growing out (of something else)”. Borrowed from Latin excrescentia (“abnormal growths”), from excrescentem, from excr?scere, from ex- (“out”) (English ex-) + cr?scere (“to grow”) (English crescent). Sense of “abnormal growth” from 1570s, from earlier excrescency (1540s in this sense).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?sk??s?ns/, /?k?sk??s?ns/
Noun
excrescence (plural excrescences)
- Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXIII [Uniform ed., p. 299]:
- Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXIII [Uniform ed., p. 299]:
- A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
- (phonetics) The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [?w?rmp?] (adding a [p] between [m] and [?]), or -t (Etymology 2).
- Synonym: vyanjanabhakti
- Antonyms: svarabhakti, anaptyxis
- Hypernym: epenthesis
Hyponyms
- (phonetic): linking consonant
Related terms
- excrescency
- excrescent
Translations
See also
- (phonetic): intervocalic
References
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