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English

Etymology 1

sting

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
  2. A bite by an insect.
  3. A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermis
  4. A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.
  5. A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
  6. A brief sequence of music used in films & TV as a form of punctuation in a dramatic or comedic scene.


Translations
  • German: {{t+|de|Stich|m}}
  • Japanese: {{t|ja|刺し傷|tr=sashi-kizu|sc=Jpan}}; {{t|ja|刺傷|tr=shishō|sc=Jpan}}
  • German: {{t-|de|Insektenbiss|m}}
  • Japanese: {{t|ja|虫さされ|tr=mushi-sasare|sc=Jpan}}
  • Finnish:

Etymology 2

Old English stingan

Verb

{{en-verb|stings|stinging|stang or stung|stung}}

  1. To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point.
  2. : Right so came out an adder of a little heathbush, and it stung a knight in the foot.
  3. : Still, it stung when a slightly older acquaintance asked me why I couldn't do any better.
  4. To bite.


Derived terms


Translations
  • Finnish: ,
  • Japanese: {{t-|ja|刺す|tr=sasu|sc=Jpan}}
  • Finnish: ,
  • Hungarian: ,
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|食う|tr=kū|sc=Jpan}}
  • Kurdish:

See also


Category:English irregular verbs

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Old English

Etymology

See the verb stingan

Noun

sting

  1. sting


Category:Old English nouns

el:sting fr:sting gl:sting io:sting it:sting hu:sting nl:sting oc:sting pl:sting ru:sting fi:sting ta:sting te:sting vi:sting uk:sting zh:sting

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sting \Sting\, n. [AS. sting a sting. See Sting, v. t.]
1. (Zool.) Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially
when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict
a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion.
The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The
caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified
dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang
of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Bot.) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which
secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these
hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid
is pressed into it.
[1913 Webster]

3. Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the
stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
[1913 Webster]

The sting of death is sin. --1 Cor. xv.
56.
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4. The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging;
a wound inflicted by stinging. "The lurking serpent's
mortal sting." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

5. A goad; incitement. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

6. The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
[1913 Webster]

Sting moth (Zool.), an Australian moth ({Doratifera
vulnerans}) whose larva is armed, at each end of the body,
with four tubercles bearing powerful stinging organs.

Sting ray. (Zool.) See under 6th Ray.

Sting winkle (Zool.), a spinose marine univalve shell of
the genus Murex, as the European species ({Murex
erinaceus}). See Illust. of Murex.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sting \Sting\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stung(Archaic Stang); p.
pr. & vb. n. Stinging.] [AS. stingan; akin to Icel. & Sw.
stinga, Dan. stinge, and probably to E. stick, v.t.; cf.
Goth. usstiggan to put out, pluck out. Cf. Stick, v. t.]
1. To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an
animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
[1913 Webster]

2. To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse;
to bite. "Slander stings the brave." --Pope.
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3. To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet sting
n 1: a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being
stung; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of
nettles" [syn: stinging]
2: a mental pain or distress; "a pang of conscience" [syn: pang]
3: a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger
into skin [syn: bite, insect bite]
4: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a
person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, {bunco
game}, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, {confidence
game}, con game, gyp, hustle, flimflam]
v 1: cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun
burned his face" [syn: bite, burn]
2: deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday" [syn: bite,
prick]
3: saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They
stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge
tax bill" [syn: stick]
4: cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin" [syn: prick,
twinge]
5: cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark
stung her"
[also: stung]
Moby Dictionary
acerbity , acidity , acridity , acrimony , aculeus , acuminate ,
acumination , affect , afflict , affront , aggrieve , agonize , ail ,
anguish , astringency , auger , barb the dart , be keen , beat ,
beesting , beguile of , bilk , bit , bite , bite the tongue , bitterness ,
bleed , bleed white , borer , bristle with , bruise , bunco , burn ,
burning , burning pain , buzz , causticity , chafe , cheat , chisel ,
chouse , chouse out of , clip , cog , cog the dice , come home to , con ,
convulse , cozen , crib , crucify , cusp , cut , cut up , dart , defraud ,
diddle , distress , do in , do out of , drill , edge , euchre ,
excruciate , exploit , fang , fester , fierceness , finagle , fire , flam ,
fleece , flimflam , flog , fob , fret , fudge , gad , gadfly , gall ,
give offense , give pain , give umbrage , gnaw , go deep ,
go through one , goad , gouge , grate , grieve , grind , grip , gripe ,
gull , gyp , harrow , harshness , have , have an edge , hocus ,
hocus-pocus , hold up , hurt , hurt the feelings , inflame ,
inflict pain , injure , irritate , itch , keenness , kill by inches ,
lacerate , lash , martyr , martyrize , melt , melt the heart , mordacity ,
mordancy , move , mucro , mulct , neb , needle , nettle , nib , nip , nudge ,
offend , outrage , overcharge , overprice , overtax , oxgoad ,
pack the deal , pain , paresthesia , penetrate , pierce , pigeon , pinch ,
pins and needles , poignancy , point , poke , practice fraud upon ,
prick , prickle , prickles , prickling , prod , profiteer ,
prolong the agony , put to torture , rack , rankle , rasp , rigor ,
rip off , rob , rook , roughness , rowel , rub , scam , scratch , screw ,
sell gold bricks , severity , sharpness , shave , shortchange , skin ,
smart , smarting , snakebite , soak , soften , spur , stab ,
stack the cards , stick , stimulate , stinger , stinging , stir ,
stridency , stringency , surcharge , swindle , take a dive , tang ,
tartness , teeth , thimblerig , thrill , throw a fight , tingle ,
tingling , tip , torment , torture , touch , touch a chord , trenchancy ,
tweak , twist , twist the knife , urtication , vehemence , victimize ,
violence , virulence , whip , whiplash , wound , wring


STING Software Technology Interest Group (CERN, org.)
FOLDOC STING

A parallel dialect of Scheme intended to serve as a
high-level operating system for symbolic programming
languages. First-class threads and processors and
customisable scheduling policies.

E-mail: .

["A Customizable Substrate for Concurrent Languages",
S. Jagannathan et al, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 1992].

(1994-11-03)


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