Meaning of stuff | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects
2. Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
   informal, uncountable, usually
3. Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils
4. To overeat; gorge.
5. Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
   informal, obsolete, uncountable, usually
6. Unspecified things or matters
7. Used as an intensive to express extreme anger, frustration, or disgust.
8. Unspecified things or matters.
   informal, uncountable, usually
9. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
10. To eat greedily.
11. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
    uncountable, usually
12. A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric
13. To fill to excess by compressing or squeezing tightly:cram, crowd, jam, load, mob, pack.
14. A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
    archaic, uncountable, usually
15. to be skilful and knowledgeable in one's chosen subject. kennis hê, kundig wees يكون ماهِرا ومُطَّلِعا في موضوعِه разбирам си от работата saber do riscado vyznat se (v) sich gut auskennen kunne sit kram ξέρω τη δουλειά μου saber de lo suyo, ser un entendedor de, ser bueno en oma asja tundma كار خود را بلد بودن osata asiansa s'y connaître לִהיוֹת מוּמחֶה सम्बद्ध कार्य में अच्छा होना znati svoj posao kitűnő anyagismerete van ahli di bidangnya vera vel að sér í sínu fagi (sapere il fatto proprio...
16. Boards used for building.
    archaic, uncountable, usually
17. that's just what is wanted!. dis wat verlang word هذا المَطلوب تماما ха така assim é que eu gosto! to je ono! das ist genau richtig det er lige, hvad der er brug for αυτό είναι! (που χρειάζεται) ¡así es!, ¡es eso mismo! just see! !خودش است niin sitä pitää voilà ce qu'il faut זְהוּ זֶה सही वस्तु to je ono pravo! ez az! itu yang diinginkan þarna kom það! þetta er lagið! (ben fatto!), (proprio così!) それだ 좋았어, 그래야지 būtent tai, ko ir reikia lūk, tā!; tieši tas, kas vajadzīgs! itulah dia dat is wat...
18. Abstract/figurative substance or character.
    uncountable, usually
19. to block. He stuffed the hole up with some newspaper; I've got a cold and my nose is stuffed up. verstop يَسُد запушвам tapar ucpat verstopfen fylde; stoppe βουλώνωobstruir; taponar; estar acatarrado kinni toppima, umbe minema بستن tukkia boucherסתום पूरी तरह बन्द करना začepiti bedugaszol menyumbat stífla, fylla í tappare, turare ふさぐ (구멍 등을) 막다 už(si)kimšti nosprostot; nosprostoties menyumbat dichtstoppentette igjen, stoppe til zatykać تړل tapar a astupa затыкать; закладывать upchať zamašiti ...
20. Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
    uncountable, usually
21. The material out of which something is made or formed; substance.
22. Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
    informal, uncountable, usually
23. The essential substance or elements; essence: "We are such stuff / As dreams are made on" (Shakespeare).
24. Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
    slang, uncountable, usually
25. Informal a. Unspecified material: Put that stuff over there.
    Informal
26. A medicine or mixture; a potion.
    obsolete, uncountable, usually
27. Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
    euphemistic, sometimes, uncountable, usually
28. A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
    uncountable, usually
29. Money.
    dated, slang, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor?  He didn't want his pockets to bulge so he was walking around with all his stuff in his hands.”

“The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.”

“and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.”

“He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff.”

“I had to do some stuff.”

“The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, / And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill.”

“Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]”

“Without waiting for a reply, she unbound the veil from her head, and took off the loose black novice's robe, which she had put over a gray stuff dress similar to that worn by Lucy.”

“"And you can buy a dress for your wife off this piece of stuff," said Lisetta, who had always an eye to business.”

“She was going out to buy some lengths of good woollen stuff for Louise's winter dresses.”

“When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff”

“We are such stuff / As dreams are made on”

“Can I have some of that stuff on my ice-cream sundae?”

“It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless.[…]You stand by, Janet, and wake me up if they do any of that running commentary stuff.””

“The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).”

“For some idiotic reason the bureaucrats are more opposed to tea than to stuff.”

“For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buy stuff and get off just before getting sick.”

“I[…]did compound for her / A certaine ſtuffe, which being tane, would ceaſe / The preſent powre of life[…].”

“Don't give me any of that 'what-about' stuff!”

“Anger would indite / Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write.”

“But the Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine, / With yellow kid gloves and a ruff— / Said he felt it exactly like going to dine, / Which the Bellman declared was all "stuff."”

“Oh, stuff, Julia! I've given up chasing after will-o'-the-wisps like that.”

“The master, at my earnest solicitation, examined his vessel, and though he prefers the coal tar, yet he told me, there were shells sticking on, and that a very thin coat of stuff, if any, remained.”

“On the last transverse planking, after: caulking and paying, he has laid on a coat of stuff, so hard when cold aš to resist a firm touch, and applied plain paper, then took heated band irons (such as women use) , and passed the iron from the centre of the sheet to the extremities, thus heating the stuff to make it adhere, pressing out the air, and laying it all flat and united with the course.”

“While the ships were placed in ordinary “a thick coat of stuff” was applied to the hulls, and their awnings might be spread or sheds erected to provide some protection from sun and weather.”

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