| stead | (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, place, position |
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| steadfast | (adjective) firm and dependable especially in loyalty | Synonyms: staunch, unswerving |
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| (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
| steadfastly | (adverb) with resolute determination | Synonyms: firm, firmly, unwaveringly |
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| steadfastness | (noun) loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty | Synonyms: staunchness |
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| (noun) steadfast resolution | - |
| steadied | (adjective) made steady or constant | - |
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| steadily | (adverb) in a steady manner | Synonyms: steady |
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| (adverb) at a steady rate or pace | - |
| steadiness | (noun) the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place | Synonyms: firmness |
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| (noun) the quality of being steady--regular and unvarying | - |
| (noun) freedom from wavering or indecision; constancy of resolve or conduct | - |
| steady | (adjective) not subject to change or variation especially in behavior | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a person who does something regularly | Synonyms: regular |
| (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
| (adjective) securely in position; not shaky | - |
| (adjective) not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall | Synonyms: firm, unfluctuating |
| (adjective) not easily excited or upset | - |
| (noun) a person loved by another person | Synonyms: sweetheart, sweetie, truelove |
| (adverb) in a steady manner | Synonyms: steadily |
| (verb) make steady | Synonyms: becalm, calm |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilise, stabilize |
| steadying | (adjective) causing to become steady | - |
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| steak | (noun) a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish | - |
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| steakhouse | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in steaks | Synonyms: chophouse |
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| steal | (noun) a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch) | - |
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| (noun) an advantageous purchase | Synonyms: bargain, buy |
| (verb) steal a base | - |
| (verb) move stealthily | Synonyms: slip |
| (verb) take without the owner's consent | Synonyms: rip, rip off |
| stealer | (noun) a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it | Synonyms: thief |
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| stealing | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving |
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| (noun) avoiding detection by moving carefully | Synonyms: stealth |
| stealth | (noun) avoiding detection by moving carefully | Synonyms: stealing |
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| stealthily | (adverb) in a stealthy manner | - |
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| stealthiness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: furtiveness, sneakiness |
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| stealthy | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: furtive, sneak, sneaky, surreptitious |
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| steam | (noun) water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere | - |
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| (verb) cook something by letting steam pass over it | - |
| (verb) clean by means of steaming | Synonyms: steam clean |
| (verb) get very agitated or angry | - |
| (verb) rise as vapor | - |
| (verb) travel by means of steam power | Synonyms: steamer |
| (verb) emit steam | - |
| steamboat | (noun) a boat propelled by a steam engine | - |
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| steamed | (adjective) cooked in steam | - |
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| (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, stung |
| steamer | (noun) an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe | Synonyms: long-neck clam, Mya arenaria, soft-shell clam, steamer clam |
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| (noun) a ship powered by one or more steam engines | Synonyms: steamship |
| (noun) a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it | - |
| (noun) a clam that is usually steamed in the shell | Synonyms: long-neck clam, soft-shell clam, steamer clam |
| (verb) travel by means of steam power | Synonyms: steam |
| steamfitter | (noun) a craftsman who installs and maintains equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating | - |
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| steaminess | (noun) cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor | Synonyms: haziness, mistiness, vaporousness, vapourousness |
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| steaming | (adjective) filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist | Synonyms: steamy |
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| (adverb) (used of heat) extremely | Synonyms: piping |
| steampunk | (noun) A subgenre of speculative science fiction set in an anachronistic 19th century society. | - |
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| steamroll | (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroller |
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| (verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
| (verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
| (verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroller |
| steamroller | (noun) vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements | Synonyms: road roller |
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| (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: juggernaut |
| (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) crush with a steamroller as if to level | - |
| (verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroll |
| steamship | (noun) a ship powered by one or more steam engines | Synonyms: steamer |
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| steamtightness | (noun) The property of being being sealed in such a way that steam cannot leak out. | - |
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| steamy | (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, horny, randy, ruttish, turned on |
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| (adjective) hot or warm and humid | Synonyms: muggy, sticky |
| (adjective) filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist | Synonyms: steaming |
| stearate | (noun) an ester of stearic acid. | - |
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| (noun) a salt of stearic acid. | - |
| stearic | (adjective) of or relating to or composed of fat | - |
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| stearin | (noun) an ester of glycerol and stearic acid | - |
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| steatite | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soaprock, soapstone |
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| steatocystoma | (noun) a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked | Synonyms: pilar cyst, sebaceous cyst, wen |
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| steatopygia | (noun) an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks | - |
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| steatorrhea | (noun) the presence of greater than normal amounts of fat in the feces which are frothy and foul smelling and floating; a symptom of disorders of fat metabolism and malabsorption syndrome | - |
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| steed | (noun) (literary) a spirited horse for state of war | - |
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| steel | (noun) knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod | - |
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| (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, brand, sword |
| (noun) an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range | - |
| (verb) cover, plate, or edge with steel | - |
| (verb) get ready for something difficult or unpleasant | Synonyms: nerve |
| steelmaker | (noun) a worker engaged in making steel | Synonyms: steelman, steelworker |
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| steelman | (noun) a worker engaged in making steel | Synonyms: steelmaker, steelworker |
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| steelworker | (noun) a worker engaged in making steel | Synonyms: steelmaker, steelman |
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| steelworks | (noun) a factory where steel is made | Synonyms: steel factory, steel mill, steel plant |
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| steely | (adjective) resembling steel in hardness | - |
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| (adjective) resembling steel as in hardness | - |
| steelyard | (noun) a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length | Synonyms: beam scale, lever scale |
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| steenbok | (noun) small plains antelope of southeastern Africa | Synonyms: Raphicerus campestris, steinbok |
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| steep | (adjective) having a sharp inclination | - |
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| (adjective) of a slope; set at a high angle | - |
| (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, unconscionable, usurious |
| (noun) a steep place (as on a hill) | - |
| (verb) let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse | Synonyms: infuse |
| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up |
| steepen | (verb) make steeper | - |
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| (verb) become steeper | - |
| steeper | (noun) a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping | - |
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| steepish | (adjective) somewhat steep | - |
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| steeple | (noun) a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top | Synonyms: spire |
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| steeplechase | (noun) a horse race over an obstructed course | - |
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| (noun) a footrace of usually 3000 meters over a closed track with hurdles and a water jump | - |
| steeplechaser | (noun) a horse trained to run in steeplechases | - |
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| steeplejack | (noun) someone who builds or maintains very tall structures | - |
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| steeply | (adverb) in a steep manner | - |
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| steepness | (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitousness |
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| steer | (noun) castrated bull | Synonyms: bullock |
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| (noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, hint, lead, tip, wind |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point |
| (verb) direct (oneself) somewhere | - |
| (verb) be a guiding or motivating force or drive | Synonyms: guide |
| steerable | (adjective) capable of being steered or directed | Synonyms: dirigible |
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| steerage | (noun) the act of steering a ship | Synonyms: steering |
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| (noun) the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship | - |
| steerageway | (noun) (nautical) the minimum rate of motion needed for a vessel to be maneuvered | - |
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| steerer | (noun) a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) | Synonyms: decoy |
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| (noun) the person who steers a ship | Synonyms: helmsman, steersman |
| steering | (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: direction, guidance |
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| (noun) the act of guiding or showing the way | Synonyms: guidance |
| (noun) the act of steering a ship | Synonyms: steerage |
| steersman | (noun) the person who steers a ship | Synonyms: helmsman, steerer |
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| steganography | (noun) act of writing in code or cipher | Synonyms: coding, cryptography, secret writing |
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| stegosaur | (noun) herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon | Synonyms: Stegosaur stenops, stegosaurus |
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| stegosaurus | (noun) herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon | Synonyms: stegosaur, Stegosaur stenops |
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| stein | (noun) a mug intended for serving beer | Synonyms: beer mug |
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| steinbok | (noun) small plains antelope of southeastern Africa | Synonyms: Raphicerus campestris, steenbok |
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| stela | (noun) an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings | Synonyms: stele |
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| stele | (noun) an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings | Synonyms: stela |
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| (noun) the usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant | - |
| stelis | (noun) any of various small tropical American orchids of the genus Stelis having long slender racemes of numerous small to minute flowers | - |
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| stellar | (adjective) being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars | Synonyms: astral |
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| (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: leading, prima, star, starring |
| stellate | (adjective) arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center | Synonyms: radial, radiate |
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| stem | (noun) a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it | Synonyms: stem turn |
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| (noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft | Synonyms: bow, fore, prow |
| (noun) the tube of a tobacco pipe | - |
| (noun) cylinder forming a long narrow part of something | Synonyms: shank |
| (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: base, radical, root, root word, theme |
| (noun) a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ | Synonyms: stalk |
| (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, stanch, staunch |
| (verb) remove the stem from | - |
| (verb) grow out of, have roots in, originate in | - |
| (verb) cause to point inward | - |
| stemless | (adjective) not having a stem | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: acaulescent |
| stemma | (noun) an eye having a single lens | Synonyms: ocellus, simple eye |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock |
| (noun) a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work | - |
| stemmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a textual stemma | - |
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| stemmatics | (noun) the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis) | Synonyms: stemmatology |
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| stemmatology | (noun) the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis) | Synonyms: stemmatics |
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| stemmed | (adjective) having a stem or stems or having a stem as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: caulescent, cauline |
| (adjective) having the stem removed | - |
| stemmer | (noun) a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples) | - |
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| (noun) a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge | - |
| (noun) an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem | Synonyms: stemming algorithm |
| (noun) a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers | - |
| (noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | Synonyms: sprigger, stripper |
| stench | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stink |
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| stencil | (noun) a sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below | - |
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| (verb) mark or print with a stencil | - |
| stenograph | (noun) a machine for typewriting shorthand characters | - |
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| (noun) a shorthand character | - |
| (verb) write in shorthand | - |
| stenographer | (noun) someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) | Synonyms: amanuensis, shorthand typist |
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| stenographic | (adjective) of or relating to or employing stenography | Synonyms: stenographical |
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| stenographical | (adjective) of or relating to or employing stenography | Synonyms: stenographic |
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| stenography | (noun) the act or art of writing in shorthand | - |
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| (noun) a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system | Synonyms: shorthand, tachygraphy |
| stenopterygius | (noun) an ichthyosaur of the genus Stenopterygius | Synonyms: Stenopterygius quadrisicissus |
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| stenosed | (adjective) abnormally constricted body canal or passage | Synonyms: stenotic |
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| stenosis | (noun) abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway | Synonyms: stricture |
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| stenotic | (adjective) abnormally constricted body canal or passage | Synonyms: stenosed |
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| stent | (noun) a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis | - |
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| stentor | (noun) any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor | - |
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| (noun) a speaker with an unusually loud voice | - |
| stentorian | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: booming |
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| step | (noun) the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down | - |
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| (noun) any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal | Synonyms: measure |
| (noun) a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance | Synonyms: dance step |
| (noun) support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway | Synonyms: stair |
| (noun) a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed | - |
| (noun) a musical interval of two semitones | Synonyms: tone, whole step, whole tone |
| (noun) a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface | Synonyms: footmark, footprint |
| (noun) the sound of a step of someone walking | Synonyms: footfall, footstep |
| (noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: footstep, pace, stride |
| (noun) a short distance | Synonyms: stone's throw |
| (noun) relative position in a graded series | Synonyms: gradation |
| (verb) measure (distances) by pacing | Synonyms: pace |
| (verb) move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation | - |
| (verb) place (a ship's mast) in its step | - |
| (verb) shift or move by taking a step | - |
| (verb) put down or press the foot, place the foot | Synonyms: tread |
| (verb) walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner | - |
| (verb) move with one's feet in a specific manner | - |
| (verb) furnish with steps | - |
| (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat |
| (verb) cause (a computer) to execute a single command | - |
| stepbrother | (noun) a brother who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-brother, half brother |
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| stepchild | (noun) a child of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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| stepdaughter | (noun) a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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