Sting

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sting \Sting\, n. [AS. sting a sting. See {Sting}, v. t.]
     1. (Zool.) 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} (Zool.), an Australian moth ({Doratifera
        vulnerans}) whose larva is armed, at each end of the body,
        with four tubercles bearing powerful stinging organs.
  
     {Sting ray}. (Zool.) See under 6th {Ray}.
  
     {Sting winkle} (Zool.), a spinose marine univalve shell of
        the genus Murex, as the European species ({Murex
        erinaceus}). See Illust. of {Murex}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]
       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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  217 Moby Thesaurus words for "sting":
     acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, aculeus, acuminate,
     acumination, affect, afflict, affront, aggrieve, agonize, ail,
     anguish, astringency, auger, barb the dart, be keen, beat,
     beesting, beguile of, bilk, bit, bite, bite the tongue, bitterness,
     bleed, bleed white, borer, bristle with, bruise, bunco, burn,
     burning, burning pain, buzz, causticity, chafe, cheat, chisel,
     chouse, chouse out of, clip, cog, cog the dice, come home to, con,
     convulse, cozen, crib, crucify, cusp, cut, cut up, dart, defraud,
     diddle, distress, do in, do out of, drill, edge, euchre,
     excruciate, exploit, fang, fester, fierceness, finagle, fire, flam,
     fleece, flimflam, flog, fob, fret, fudge, gad, gadfly, gall,
     give offense, give pain, give umbrage, gnaw, go deep,
     go through one, goad, gouge, grate, grieve, grind, grip, gripe,
     gull, gyp, harrow, harshness, have, have an edge, hocus,
     hocus-pocus, hold up, hurt, hurt the feelings, inflame,
     inflict pain, injure, irritate, itch, keenness, kill by inches,
     lacerate, lash, martyr, martyrize, melt, melt the heart, mordacity,
     mordancy, move, mucro, mulct, neb, needle, nettle, nib, nip, nudge,
     offend, outrage, overcharge, overprice, overtax, oxgoad,
     pack the deal, pain, paresthesia, penetrate, pierce, pigeon, pinch,
     pins and needles, poignancy, point, poke, practice fraud upon,
     prick, prickle, prickles, prickling, prod, profiteer,
     prolong the agony, put to torture, rack, rankle, rasp, rigor,
     rip off, rob, rook, roughness, rowel, rub, scam, scratch, screw,
     sell gold bricks, severity, sharpness, shave, shortchange, skin,
     smart, smarting, snakebite, soak, soften, spur, stab,
     stack the cards, stick, stimulate, stinger, stinging, stir,
     stridency, stringency, surcharge, swindle, take a dive, tang,
     tartness, teeth, thimblerig, thrill, throw a fight, tingle,
     tingling, tip, torment, torture, touch, touch a chord, trenchancy,
     tweak, twist, twist the knife, urtication, vehemence, victimize,
     violence, virulence, whip, whiplash, wound, wring
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  STING
       Software Technology Interest Group (CERN, org.)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  STING
       
          A parallel dialect of {Scheme} intended to serve as a
          high-level {operating system} for symbolic programming
          languages.  {First-class} {thread}s and processors and
          customisable {scheduling} policies.
       
          E-mail: .
       
          ["A Customizable Substrate for Concurrent Languages",
          S. Jagannathan et al, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 1992].
       
          (1994-11-03)