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Definition of 'Stuff'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) stuff
the material of which anything is made.

2.  stuff
material to be worked upon or to be used in making something.

3.  stuff
material, objects, or items of some unspecified kind.

4.  stuff
property, as personal belongings or equipment.

5.  stuff
something to be swallowed, as food, drink, or medicine.

6.  stuff
inward character, qualities, or capabilities:
to have the right stuff in one.

7.  stuff
action or talk of a particular kind:
kid stuff.

8.  stuff
a specialty or special skill:
to do one's stuff.

9.  stuff
worthless things or matter.

10.  stuff
worthless or foolish ideas, talk, or writing:
a lot of stuff and nonsense.

11.  stuff
Chiefly Brit. woven material or fabric, esp. wool.

12.  stuff
a baseball pitcher's repertoire of pitches and effectiveness in using it.

13.  stuff
spin or speed imparted to a ball, as by a baseball pitcher or tennis player.

14.  stuff
literary, musical, or other compositions or performances.

15.  stuff
Informal. one's trade, skill, subject, etc.:
She knows her stuff.

16.  stuff
Slang. a drug, esp. an illicit one.

17. (v.t.) stuff
to fill (a receptacle, aperture, etc.), esp. by packing the contents closely together.

18.  stuff
to thrust or cram (something) into a receptacle, cavity, or the like.

19.  stuff
to fill or line with some kind of material as a padding or packing.

20.  stuff
to fill or cram with food.

21.  stuff
to fill (poultry, vegetables, etc.) with a stuffing.

22.  stuff
to fill the preserved skin of (a dead animal) with material, retaining its natural form and appearance for display.

23.  stuff
to put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).

24.  stuff
to pack tightly in a confined place; crowd together.

25.  stuff
to crowd (a vehicle, room, etc.) with persons.

26.  stuff
to fill (the mind) with facts, details, etc.

27.  stuff
to stop up or plug; block or choke (usu. fol. by up).

28. (v.i.) stuff
to cram oneself with food; gorge.

Etymology: (1300–50; (v.) < OF estoffer lit., to stuff < Frankish *stopfōn,*stoppōn (see stop ); (n.) ME < OF estoffe, der. of the v.)

Definition of 'Stuff'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) material, stuff
the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
"coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"

2. (noun) stuff
miscellaneous unspecified objects
"the trunk was full of stuff"

3. (noun) stuff, clobber
informal terms for personal possessions
"did you take all your clobber?"

4. (noun) stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock
senseless talk
"don't give me that stuff"

5. (noun) stuff
unspecified qualities required to do or be something
"the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"

6. (noun) stuff
information in some unspecified form
"it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"

7. (verb) stuff
a critically important or characteristic component
"suspense is the very stuff of narrative"

8. (verb) stuff
cram into a cavity
"The child stuffed candy into his pockets"

9. (verb) thrust, stuff, shove, squeeze
press or force
"Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"

10. (verb) stuff, lug, choke up, block
obstruct
"My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"

11. (verb) gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
"She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"

12. (verb) stuff
treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
"stuff a bearskin"

13. (verb) stuff
fill tightly with a material
"stuff a pillow with feathers"

14. (verb) farce, stuff
fill with a stuffing while cooking
"Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"

Definition of 'Stuff'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) stuff
indicates activities or things without naming them specifically
What's that sticky stuff on the table?; There was beer and other stuff to drink.; I've been dealing with a lot of emotional stuff lately.; He did some great stuff in his early acting career.

2.  stuff
sb's stuff
a number of things that belong to sb
I left all my stuff in your room.

3. (verb) stuff
to push things into a small space in a careless way
She stuffed her clothes into the bag.

4.  stuff
to fill a chicken, turkey, etc. with bread, meat, fruits, etc. before cooking
a turkey stuffed with sausage and dried fruit

5.  stuff
to make a container very full
a closet stuffed with clothes

6.  stuff
stuff yourself/stuff your face
to eat a lot
We stuffed our faces at the pizza place.

Definition of 'Stuff'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Stuff
to fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick

2. (noun) Stuff
to thrust or crowd; to press; to pack

3. (noun) Stuff
to fill by being pressed or packed into

4. (noun) Stuff
to fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey

5. (noun) Stuff
to obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration

6. (noun) Stuff
to fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals

7. (noun) Stuff
to form or fashion by packing with the necessary material

8. (noun) Stuff
to crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies

9. (noun) Stuff
to put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box)

10. (verb) Stuff
material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture

11. (verb) Stuff
the fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence

12. (verb) Stuff
woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber

13. (verb) Stuff
furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils

14. (verb) Stuff
a medicine or mixture; a potion

15. (verb) Stuff
refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash

16. (verb) Stuff
a melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication

17. (verb) Stuff
paper stock ground ready for use

18. (verb) Stuff
to feed gluttonously; to cram

Translation of 'Stuff'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: material or substance What is that black oily stuff on the beach?; The doctor gave me some good stuff for removing warts; Show them what stuff you're made of! (= how brave, strong etc* you are).*
Afrikaans: goed	Arabic: مادَّه	Bulgarian: вещество
Brazilian: substância	Czech: látka, hmota, mast	German: das Zeug
Danish: stof; materiale	Greek: υλικό	Spanish: materia; material; sustan
Estonian: aine	Farsi: ماده	Finnish: aine
French: chose; produit;étoffe	Hebrew: חוֹמֶר	Hindi: सामग्री
Croatian: građa, materijal	Hungarian: anyag; dolog	Indonesian: bahan
Icelandic: efni	Italian: cosa; sostanza	Japanese: もの
Korean: (막연한 어떤) 물건	Lithuanian: medžiaga, masė	Latvian: []viela; materiāls
Malay: bahan	Dutch: spul	Norwegian: materiale, stoff; medisin
Polish: coś, rzecz	Persian: ماده	Pashto: ماده
Portuguese: substância	Romanian: lucru; produs; materie	Russian: вещество; материал
Slovak: látka, hmota	Slovenian: snov	Serbian: stvar
Swedish: material,ämne, stoff, sak	Thai: สิ่งของ	Turkish: madde, cisim
Taiwanese: 材料	Ukrainian: матеріал; ліки	Urdu: سامان
Vietnamese: chất liệu, vật liệu	Chinese: 材料
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