Found 4 items, similar to Sting.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: sting
menyengat
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: sting
antup, menyengat, sengatan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sting
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:
stinging]
2: a mental pain or distress;
“a pang of conscience” [syn:
pang]
3: a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger
into skin [syn:
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,
flimflam]
[also:
stung]
sting
v 1: cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort;
“The sun
burned his face” [syn:
bite,
burn]
2: deliver a sting to;
“A bee stung my arm yesterday” [syn:
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]
4: cause a stinging pain;
“The needle pricked his skin” [syn:
prick,
twinge]
5: cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging;
“His remark
stung her”
[also:
stung]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sting
Sting
\Sting\, n. [AS. sting a sting. See
Sting, v. t.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) 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 (Zo["o]l.), an Australian moth (
Doratifera vulnerans
) whose larva is armed, at each end of the body,
with four tubercles bearing powerful stinging organs.
Sting ray. (Zo["o]l.) See under 6th
Ray.
Sting winkle (Zo["o]l.), a spinose marine univalve shell of
the genus Murex, as the European species (
Murex erinaceus
). See Illust. of
Murex.
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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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