different between stud vs stead

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)

1. A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.

   Synonym: sire

2. A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
3. (by extension, collective) A group of such animals.
4. An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
5. 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.

6. (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)

1. A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
2. (jewelry) A small round earring.

3. (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.
4. (obsolete) A stem; a trunk.

   • Seest not this same hawthorn stud?

5. (poker) A type of poker where an individual cannot throw cards away and some of her cards are exposed.

   Synonym: stud poker
6. (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
7. (engineering) A stud bolt.
8. 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)

1. To set with studs; to furnish with studs.
2. To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
3. 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.

Etymology 3

Noun

stud (plural studs)

1. 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

1. 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)

1. bullock, steer
2. boor, oaf

Declension

References

• “stud” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Noun

stud m (plural studs, diminutive studje n)

1. 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)

1. stud where stallions and mares are bred to improve the equine race
2. 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 ?????)

1. (expressively) cold

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: st?d, IPA^(key): /st?d/

• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English sted, stede, from Old English stede, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh?tis. Cognate with German Stadt, Gothic ???????????????????? (staþs, “place”), Danish and Swedish stad, Norwegian Bokmål sted, Scots steid, Dutch stad, Yiddish ?????? (shtot). See stasis.

Noun

stead (plural steads)

1. (obsolete) A place, or spot, in general. [10^th-16th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene, II:

     For he ne wonneth in one certaine stead, / But restlesse walketh all the world around […].

2. (obsolete) A place where a person normally rests; a seat. [10^th-18^thc.]
   • 1633, P. Fletcher, Purple Island:

     There now the hart, fearlesse of greyhound, feeds, / And loving pelican in safety breeds; / There shrieking satyres fill the people's emptie steads.

3. (obsolete) An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc. [13^th-16^thc.]
4. (obsolete) An estate, a property with its grounds; a farm. [14^th-19^thc.]
   • 1889, H. Rider Haggard, Allan's Wife:

     But of course I could not do this by myself, so I took a Hottentot—a very clever man when he was not drunk—who lived on the stead, into my confidence.

5. (obsolete) The frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead. [15^th-19^thc.]
   • 1693, John Dryden, Baucis and Philemon

     The genial bed / Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead.

6. (in phrases, now literary) The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor. [from 15^thc.]
   • 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion:

     She was so wretched and so vehement, complained so much of injustice in being expected to go away instead of Anne; Anne, who was nothing to Louisa, while she was her sister, and had the best right to stay in Henrietta's stead!

   • 1961, Muriel Saint Clare Byrne, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country, page 285:

     His nurse had told him all about changelings, and how the little people would always try to steal a beautiful human child out of its cradle and put in its stead one of their own ailing, puking brats […]

   • 2011, "Kin selection", The Economist, 31 March:

     Had Daniel Ortega not got himself illegally on to this year’s ballot to seek a third term, his wife might have run in his stead.

7. (figuratively) An emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases). [from 15^thc.]
   • 2010, Dan van der Vat, The Guardian, 19 September:

     Though small and delicate-looking, she gave an impression of intense earnestness and latent toughness, qualities that stood her in good stead when she dared to challenge the most intrusive communist society in eastern Europe.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

stead (third-person singular simple present steads, present participle steading, simple past and past participle steaded)

1. (obsolete) To help, support, benefit or assist; to be helpful.
   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I scene iii^[1]:

     May you stead me? will you pleasure me? shall I know your answer?

   • c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I scene iii^[2]:

     I could never better stead thee than now. […]

   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[3]:

     Some food we had and some fresh water that / A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, / Out of his charity,—who being then appointed / Master of this design,—did give us, with / Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, / Which since have steaded much: […]

2. (obsolete) To fill the stead or place of something.

Derived terms

• bestead

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of steady.

Noun

stead (plural steads)

1. (Singapore, colloquial) One's partner in a romantic relationship.

Anagrams

• AEDST, Deats, Stade, TASed, asdet, dates, desat, sadet, sated, stade, tased, tsade