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单词 st
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st.n.v.

Etymology: In sense A. a, shortened < saint adj. and n., as graphic abbreviation. In sense A. b, shortened < street n. and adj., as graphic abbreviation. In sense A. c(a), shortened < stanza n., as graphic abbreviation. In sense A. c(b), shortened < statute n.1, as graphic abbreviation. In sense A. d, shortened < stone n., as graphic abbreviation. In sense B., shortened < stumped (by), as graphic abbreviation.
A. n.
a. With capital initial. = saint adj. 1a.
b. With capital or small initial. = street n. 2b.
c. in references.
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(a) = stanza n. 1.
(b) = statute n.1 2.
d. = stone n. 14a.
B. v.
Cricket. = stumped (by). Cf. stump v.1 8.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > dismissal of batsman > put out [verb (transitive)] > manner of dismissal
bowl1719
to run out1750
catch1789
stump1789
st.1797
to throw out1832
rattle1841
to pitch out1858
clean-bowl1862
skittle1880
shoot1900
skittle1906
trap1919
1797 Kentish Gaz. 14 July 4/4 Fry..1 st. Crozier.
1844 W. Denison Cricketer’s Compan. 1843 17 Lillywhite, st. Guy, b Redgate..0.
1867 G. H. Selkirk Guide to Cricket Ground iii. 52 A catch or stump being made the letter ‘c’ or ‘st’ comes under ‘how out’, with the name of the fielder concerned.
1900 James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Ann. 18 Mr. C. L. Townsend, st Kelly, b Howell 5.
1955 Playfair Cricket Ann. 54 Maqsood Ahmed..st Evans b Wardle..0.
2019 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack (ed. 156) iii. 369 A. D. Hales st Dickwella b Dananjaya.12.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

stint.

/st/
Forms: Also 1600s 'st.
Etymology: representing a checked sibilation, instinctively felt as expressive; less exactly rendered by hist int., †ist int. Compare Latin st (Plautus, Terence, etc.).
1.
a. An exclamation used to impose silence; = hush int., whist int.1
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > be silent [interjection]
silence?c1225
peacec1390
whista1425
softlya1500
softc1500
husht1532
ist1540
st1552
soft and peace1576
pocas palabras1592
isse1598
hist1599
whish1635
whisht1684
quiet1814
fusht1816
pax1843
sh1847
pst1863
ciunas1987
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum St, a voyce of silence or taciturnitye or thus husht, or else it maye be sayde st, st, wherby dogges incited or prouoked to fight.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Zita, an aduerbe to commaund or perswade silence, as we say isse, whosht or st.
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. i. 14 St, st,—said a second,—hush, quoth a third.
1841 R. Browning Pippa Passes i, in Bells & Pomegranates No. I 8/1 St—St!
b. Used as adj. Hushed, silent. Cf. whist adj.1
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [adjective] > silent
coyc1330
stone-still1338
quietc1384
softa1393
peacec1400
swownc1400
tongueless1447
clumc1485
mutec1500
whist1513
silent1542
dead1548
husht1557
whisted1557
whust1558
whust1558
whisht1570
huisht1576
quiet (also mum, mute, still, etc.) as a mouse (in a cheese)1584
fordead1593
noiseless1608
whisha1612
dumba1616
soundlessa1616
st1655
silentish1737
defta1763
sleeping1785
untoned1807
mousy1812
soughless1851
deathlike1856
whisperless1863
deathly1865
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 69 For three dayes all was so 'st, so calm on both sides.
2. An exclamation used to drive away an animal, or to urge it to attack.
ΘΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [interjection] > shoo, etc.
shoo1483
huff1486
st1552
hoosh1874
1552 [see sense 1a].
1841 S. Warren Ten Thousand a-Year III. ii. 36 Off! off!.. Go home! ah! ah!.. St! St!
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