From en.wiktionary.org:
[STing]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], [enm], [enm], from [en], [ang], from [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun] [Sting.ogg]
1. A bump left on the skin after having been stung .
2. A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack , usually including the injection of venom .
3. A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
4. A sharp , localized pain primarily on the epidermis .
5. [en] A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrete s an acrid fluid , as in nettle s.
6. The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
7. * [II]
8. [en] A police operation in which the police pretend to engage in criminal activity in order to catch a criminal .
9. * [en]
10. [en] A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
11. A brief sequence of music used in films, TV, and video games as a form of scenic punctuation or to identify the broadcasting station.
12. A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
13. * [en]
14. [en] The harmful or painful part of something.
15. * [1 Corinthians]
16. * [en]
17. A goad ; incitement .
18. * [poem=A Lover's Complaint]
19. The concluding point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying. < !-- = punchline? -->
***** Synonyms
- [pointed portion of an insect or arachnid] [en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[bump on skin]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian : [sq] , [sq] (gheg)
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek:
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [general] [ja] ; [formal] [ja]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[puncture]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [bee] [de] , [wasp] [de] , [scorpion] [de]
- Greek:
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Malay: [ms]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] [sting] , [pt] [bite]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Volapük: [vo] , [insect] [vo] , [bee] [vo] , [flea] [vo] , [scorpion] [vo]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack]
[sharp, localised pain in epidermis]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Spanish: [es]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[stinging hair of a plant]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[thrust of a sting into the flesh]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[police operation]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[comedy: short phrase played to accent the punchline] [trans-bottom]
[brief sequence of music in films, TV, and video games] [trans-bottom]
[support for a wind tunnel model] [trans-bottom]
[harmful or painful part of something]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[goad]
[concluding point of a sarcastic saying]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], from [en], from [en]. Compare Swedish and Icelandic [sv].
**** Verb
[stung]
1. [en] To hurt , usually by introducing poison or a sharp point , or both.
2. [en] To puncture with the stinger .
3. [en] To hurt , to be in pain (physically or emotionally).
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. [en] To cause harm or pain to.
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[to hurt]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [transitive] [ru] , [intransitive] [ru] , [intransitive] [ru] , [intransitive] [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[of an insect or arachnid: to puncture with the stinger]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq] (gheg)
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
- Brunei Malay: [kxd]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb] , [ceb]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Egyptian: [pzḥ]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Ladin: [lld] , [lld]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] ; [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Simalungun Batak: [bts]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec] , [vec] , [vec] , [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Interlingua: [ia] , [ia]
[trans-bottom]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Middle English
*** Etymology 1
**** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
*** Etymology 2
**** Verb
[enm]
1. [enm] [enm]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Etymology
From the verb [nb].
*** Noun
[nb-noun-n1]
1. a stitch ( _in sewing and surgery_ )
2. stitch ( _pain in the side_ )
*** References
- [R:The Bokmål Dictionary]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Etymology
From the verb [nn], from [nn], from [nn].
*** Noun
[nn]
1. [nn]
*** Noun
[nn-noun-n1]
1. a stitch ( _in sewing and surgery_ )
*** References
- [R:The Nynorsk Dictionary]
** Old English
*** Etymology
From [ang]; akin to [ang].
*** Pronunciation
- [sting]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] , stinging (of an animal)
**** Descendants
- [enm]
** Romanian
*** Verb
[ro]
1. [ro]
** Swedish
*** Pronunciation
- [sv]
*** Verb
[sv]
1. [sv]
*** Anagrams
- [sv]