STUFF
\stˈʌf], \stˈʌf], \s_t_ˈʌ_f]\
Definitions of STUFF
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"
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unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
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a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
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information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
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fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
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miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff"
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fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"; "The old lady wants to have her dead poodle stuffed by the taxidermist"
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treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin"
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obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
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fill completely; "The child stuffed his pockets with candy"
By Princeton University
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strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"
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unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
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a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
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information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
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fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
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fill tightly with an appropriate material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"; "The old lady wants to have her dead poodle stuffed by the taxidermist"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
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The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
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Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
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Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
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A medicine or mixture; a potion.
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A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
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Paper stock ground ready for use.
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To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
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To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
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To fill by being pressed or packed into.
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To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
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To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
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To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
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To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
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To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
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To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
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To feed gluttonously; to cram.
By Oddity Software
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The material out of which anything may be made; the fundamental part or essence; as, hero stuff; raw material; woven fabrics or cloth; household goods; refuse or waste matter; nonsense.
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To fill by crowding something into; as, to stuff one's pockets; press or pack into a small space; fill with specially prepared material; as, to stuff a chicken; put dishonest votes into; as, to stuff a ballot box.
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To eat more than enough; to cram.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Materials of which anything is made: textile fabrics, cloth, esp. when woollen: worthless matter: (B.) household furniture, etc.
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To fill by crowding: to fill very full: to press in: to crowd: to cause to bulge out by filling: to fill with seasoning, as a fowl: to fill the skin of a dead animal, so as to reproduce its living form.
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To feed gluttonously.
By Daniel Lyons
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To feed gluttonously.
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A mass of matter or collection of substances; the matter of which anything is formed; furniture; that which fills anything; elemental part; cloth fabrics; matter, particularly that which is worthless.
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To fill; to fill very full; to thrust in; to cause to bulge by filling; to all meat with seasoning; to fill the skin of a dead animal for preserving its form.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Material; textile fabrics; worthless matter; furniture.
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To feed to excess.
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To press in; crowd; fill full; fill with seasoning; fill out the skin.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Any collection of substances; materials of which anything is made; the woven fabric of which clothes are made; something trifling or worthless.
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To fill very full; to crowd; to press; to cause to swell out by putting something in; to thrust into; to fill meat with seasoning; to obstruct, as one of the organs; to fill, as the skin of a dead animal for preserving its likeness; to feed gluttonously.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin] Material to be worked up in any process of manufacture;-woven material ; cloth not made into garments; - a textile fabric made entirely of worsted ;-refuse or worthless matter ; hence, foolish or irrational language; nonsense ;-furniture ; utensils ; domestic articles in general.
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