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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
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: sting, stinging]
2: a mental pain or distress; "a pang of conscience" [syn:
pang, sting]
3: a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger
into skin [syn: sting, 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, sting, flimflam]
v 1: cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun
burned his face" [syn: bite, sting, burn]
2: deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday" [syn:
sting, 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, sting]
4: cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin" [syn:
prick, sting, twinge]
5: cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark stung
her"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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.
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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.
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3. Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the
stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
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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.
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5. A goad; incitement. --Shak.
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6. The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
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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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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.
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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.
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4. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016) |
STING
Software Technology Interest Group (CERN, org.)
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5. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
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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Thesaurus Results for sting:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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