sting
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (5)stung, stings, stinging
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort“The sun burned his face”Synonyms: biteburnMore general ache, smartMore specific nettle, urticateSimilar burn
- deliver a sting to“A bee stung my arm yesterday”Synonyms: biteprickMore general pierce
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous“They stuck me with the dinner bill”“I was stung with a huge tax bill”Synonyms: stickMore general force, thrust
- cause a stinging pain“The needle pricked his skin”Synonyms: pricktwingeMore general suffer, hurtMore specific prickle, prick
- cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging“His remark stung her”More general hurt, wound
Noun (5)stings
- a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung“the sting of death”“he felt the stinging of nettles”Synonyms: stingingType of pain, hurting
- a mental pain or distress“a pang of conscience”Synonyms: pangType of pain, hurting
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skinSynonyms: biteinsect biteType of injury, hurtKinds bee sting, flea bite, mosquito bite
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless propertySynonyms: buncobunco gamebunkobunko gameconconfidence trickconfidence gamecon gamehustleflimflamType of swindle, cheatKinds sting operation
- operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act“the police conducted a sting operation”Synonyms: sting operationType of operation
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Translations
Verb of an insect or arachnid
Noun sting, puncture by an insect
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: AS. sting a sting. See Sting, transitive verb
1. Zoology 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.
2. Botany 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.
3. Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
The sting of death is sin.— 1 Cor. xv. 56.
4. The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging. “The lurking serpent's mortal sting.” William Shakespeare
5. A goad; incitement. William Shakespeare
6. The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
Sting moth Zoology, an Australian moth (Doratifera vulnerans) whose larva is armed, at each end of the body, with four tubercles bearing powerful stinging organs. — Sting ray. Zoology See under 6th Ray. — Sting winkle Zoology, a spinose marine univalve shell of the genus Murex, as the European species (Murex erinaceus). See Illust. of Murex.
Origin: 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, transitive verb
1. To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
2. To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite. “Slander stings the brave.” Alexander Pope
3. To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
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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.
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