| 单词 | stuff |
| 释义 | stuff (once / 119 pages) 1nv 2n 3n 4v 5v "Good stuff!" you might say, tasting a delicious piece of cake. The word stuff could refer to all sorts of things. It's one of those words that you can use when you're too lazy to find the right word. Stuff is one of those words you use in all kinds of contexts, or for all kinds of stuff. When you throw a bunch of stuff into a bag, you could be referring to any arrangement of things. When you talk about someone's possessions, informally, you're talking about his stuff. As a verb, to stuff something, is to fill it up — like when you stuff a turkey with breadcrumbs or stuff a pillow with... stuffing. WORD FAMILYstuff: overstuff, stuffed, stuffer, stuffing, stuffs, unstuff+/overstuff: overstuffed, overstuffing, overstuffs/stuffed: stuffedest/stuffer: stuffers/stuffing: stuffings/unstuff: unstuffed, unstuffing, unstuffs USAGE EXAMPLESRedo the pantry to put healthy stuff in front. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) But the stuffed owls in Santa hats were already marked down — 60 percent off. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) That fake tan stuff only started showing up in the past few years. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object wheat is the stuff they use to make bread Syn|Hypo|Hyper material ballast any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship bedding, bedding material, littermaterial used to provide a bed for animals rindthe natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating) precursora substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction) atom, corpuscle, molecule, mote, particle, speck(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything ammunitionany nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction floc, flocculea small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid HAZMATan abbreviation for `hazardous material' used on warning signs aggregatematerial such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster raw material, staplematerial suitable for manufacture or use or finishing sorbatea material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption sorbent, sorbent materiala material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption diamagneta substance that exhibits diamagnetism mineralsolid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition rock, stonematerial consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust adhesive, adhesive agent, adhesive materiala substance that unites or bonds surfaces together sealing materialany substance used to seal joints or fill cracks in a porous surface animal materialmaterial derived from animals fluffany light downy material bimetalmaterial made by bonding together sheets of two different metals abradant, abrasive, abrasive materiala substance that abrades or wears down chemical, chemical substancematerial produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules composite materialstrong lightweight material developed in the laboratory; fibers of more than one kind are bonded together chemically conductora substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat dielectric, insulator, nonconductora material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity contaminant, contaminationa substance that contaminates particulate, particulate mattera small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) dustfree microscopic particles of solid material elastomerany of various elastic materials that resemble rubber (resumes its original shape when a deforming force is removed) earth, groundthe loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface discharge, emissiona substance that is emitted or released detritusloose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks waste, waste material, waste matter, waste productany materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted fiber, fibrea slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn fill, fillingany material that fills a space or container foama lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture homogenatematerial that has been homogenized (especially tissue that has been ground and mixed) humatematerial that is high in humic acids impregnationmaterial with which something is impregnated papera material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses packing, packing material, waddingany material used especially to protect something color, coloring material, colour, colouring materialany material used for its color plant material, plant substancematerial derived from plants radioactive materialmaterial that is radioactive thickener, thickeningany material used to thicken tonera black or colored powder used in a printer to develop a xerographic image translucent substance, transparent substancea material having the property of admitting light diffusely; a partly transparent material undercutthe material removed by a cut made underneath builder, detergent buildera substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action vernix, vernix caseosaa white cheeselike protective material that covers the skin of a fetus wada small mass of soft material feather, plumage, plumethe light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds beard, byssustuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface bristlea stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic bushingan insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass cardone of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes confettismall pieces or streamers of colored paper that are thrown around on festive occasions (as at a wedding) explosivea chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck glass fiber, glass fibre, optical fiber, optical fibrea very thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light; used in bundles to transmit images paint, pigmenta substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating nerve fiber, nerve fibrea threadlike extension of a nerve cell spindle(biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle piece of paper, sheet, sheet of paperpaper used for writing or printing bacon rindthe rind of bacon peel, skinthe rind of a fruit or vegetable cheese rindthe rind of a cheese graina relatively small granular particle of a substance grindingmaterial resulting from the process of grinding interplanetary dustmicroscopic particles in the interplanetary medium moraineaccumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier loofa, loofah, loufah sponge, luffathe dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer Cebu maguey, cantala, manila magueyhard fiber used in making coarse twine; from Philippine agave plants bassinecoarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms coirstiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut raffiafiber of a raffia palm used as light cordage and in making hats and baskets dross, impurityworthless or dangerous material that should be removed Styrofoama light resilient foam of polystyrene feedstockthe raw material that is required for some industrial process absorbent, absorbent materiala material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance absorbatea material that has been or is capable of being absorbed adsorbent, adsorbent materiala material having capacity or tendency to adsorb another substance adsorbatea material that has been or is capable of being adsorbed Cu, atomic number 29, coppera ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor Ag, atomic number 47, silvera soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography ader wax, earth wax, mineral wax, ozocerite, ozokeritea waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum; some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles amblygonitea white or grey mineral consisting of lithium aluminum phosphate; a source of lithium amphibolea mineral or mineral variety belonging to the amphibole group amphibole groupa group of minerals with similar crystal structures containing a silicate chain and combinations of chiefly sodium and calcium and magnesium and iron and aluminum apatitea common complex mineral consisting of calcium fluoride phosphate or calcium chloride phosphate; a source of phosphorus aragonitea mineral form of crystalline calcium carbonate; dimorphic with calcite argentitea valuable silver ore consisting of silver sulfide (Ag2S) argyroditea rare steel-grey mineral consisting of silver and germanium and sulfur arsenopyrite, mispickela silver-white or grey ore of arsenic asphalt, mineral pitcha dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of hydrocarbons augitedark-green to black glassy mineral of the pyroxene group containing large amounts of aluminum and iron and magnesium baddeleyitea mineral consisting of zirconium oxide bastnaesite, bastnasitea yellow-to-brown mineral that is a source of rare earth elements bauxitea clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst berylthe chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems boraxan ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent bornite, peacock orea mineral consisting of sulfides of copper and iron that is found in copper deposits carnallitea white or reddish mineral consisting of hydrous chlorides of potassium and magnesium; used as a fertilizer and as a source of potassium and magnesium cassiteritea hard heavy dark mineral that is the chief source of tin celestitea mineral consisting of strontium sulphate cerussite, white lead orea mineral consisting of lead carbonate that is an important source of lead chalcocite, copper glancea heavy grey mineral that is an ore of copper chalcopyrite, copper pyritesa yellow copper ore (CuFeS2) made up of copper and iron sulfide chloritea generally green or black mineral; it occurs as a constituent of many rocks typically in the form of a flat crystal chromitea brownish-black mineral; the major source of chromium chrysoberyla rare hard yellow green mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in crystal form; used as a gemstone cinnabara heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury cobaltitea rare silvery-white mineral; important ore of cobalt halite, rock saltnaturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride coltan, columbite-tantalitea valuable black mineral combining niobite and tantalite; used in cell phones and computer chips cordieritea blue mineral of magnesium and iron and aluminum and silicon and oxygen; often used as a gemstone corundom, corundumvery hard mineral used as an abrasive cristobalitea white mineral consisting of silica; found in volcanic rocks crocolitea rare lead chromite mineral that forms bright orange crystals Greenland spar, cryolitea white mineral consisting of fluorides of aluminum and sodium; a source of fluorine cupritea mineral consisting of cuprous oxide that is a source of copper cutin(biochemistry) a waxy transparent material that occurs in the cuticle of plants and consists of highly polymerized esters of fatty acids bitter spar, dolomitea light colored mineral consisting of calcium magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium; used as a ceramic and as fertilizer earth colora colored mineral used as a pigment emerya hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper) cobalt bloom, erythritea reddish mineral consisting of hydrated cobalt arsenate in monoclinic crystalline form and used in coloring glass; usually found in veins bearing cobalt and arsenic fergusonitea dark mineral consisting of oxides of yttrium and erbium and tantalum and other minerals fluor, fluorite, fluorspara soft mineral (calcium fluoride) that is fluorescent in ultraviolet light; chief source of fluorine gadolinite, ytterbitea mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium galenasoft blue-grey mineral; lead sulfide; a major source of lead garnetany of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive garnieritea green mineral consisting of hydrated nickel magnesium silicate; a source of nickel germanitea rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide gibbsitewhite crystalline mineral consisting of aluminum hydroxide; a constituent of bauxite and a source of alumina glauconitea green mineral consisting of hydrated silicate of potassium or iron or magnesium or aluminum; found in greensand cadmium sulphide, greenockiteore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form gypsuma common white or colorless mineral (hydrated calcium sulphate) used to make cements and plasters (especially plaster of Paris) hausmannitea mineral consisting of manganese tetroxide; a source of manganese barite, barium sulphate, barytes, heavy spara white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium calamine, hemimorphitea white mineral; a common ore of zinc ilmenitea weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks; an iron titanium oxide in crystalline form; a source of titanium jadeitea hard green mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate in monoclinic crystalline form; a source of jade; found principally in Burma kainitea white mineral consisting of magnesium sulphate and potassium chloride; a source of potassium salts; used as a fertilizer kaolinitea mineral consisting of aluminum silicate; main source of kaolin kernitea light soft mineral consisting of hydrated sodium borate in crystalline form; an important source of boron kieseritea white mineral consisting of hydrous magnesium sulfate often found in salt mines cyanite, kyanitea grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory langbeinitea mineral consisting of potassium magnesium double sulphate; used as a fertilizer magnesitea white mineral consisting of magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium malachitea green or blue mineral used as an ore of copper and for making ornamental objects maltha, mineral tara thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt manganitea black mineral consisting of basic manganese oxide; a source of manganese meerschaum, sepiolitea white clayey mineral isinglass, micaany of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity milleritea yellow mineral consisting of nickel sulfide; a minor source of nickel molybdenitea mineral resembling graphite that is valued as the chief source of molybdenum and its compounds monazitea reddish-brown mineral containing rare earth metals; an important source of thorium and cerium nepheline, nephelitea whitish mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate or potassium aluminum silicate in crystalline form; used in the manufacture of ceramics and enamels nephelinitean igneous rock consisting of nepheline and pyroxene columbite, niobitea black mineral that is an ore of niobium and tantalum nitrocalcitethe mineral form of calcium nitrate olivinea mineral consisting of magnesium iron silicate; a source of magnesium oliveniterare green to black mineral consisting of hydrated copper arsenate that is found in copper deposits opala translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color; some varieties are used as gemstones orea mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined orpimenta yellow mineral occurring in conjunction with realgar; an ore of arsenic iridosmine, osmiridiuma hard and corrosion resistant mineral that is a natural alloy of osmium and iridium (usually containing small amounts of rhodium and platinum); used in needles and pen nibs etc. peatpartially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried pentlanditea mineral (iron and nickel sulphide) that is the chief ore of nickel magnesia, magnesium oxide, periclasea white solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase; a source of magnesium pinitegrey or green or brown mineral similar to mica and containing aluminum and potassium sulphates pollucitea rare mineral that is an important source of cesium psilomelanea mineral consisting of hydrated basic oxide of manganese and barium; a source of manganese fool's gold, iron pyrite, pyritea common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color pyrolusitea mineral consisting of manganese dioxide; an important source of manganese green lead ore, pyromorphitea mineral consisting of lead chloride and phosphate; a minor source of lead pyrophyllitea white or greenish aluminum silicate mineral (resembles talc) pyroxeneany of a group of crystalline silicate mineral common in igneous and metamorphic rocks magnetic pyrites, pyrrhotine, pyrrhotitea brownish iron sulfide mineral (FeS) having weak magnetic properties quartza hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities quartzitehard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals reactanta chemical substance that is present at the start of a chemical reaction realgara rare soft orange mineral consisting of arsenic sulphide; an important ore of arsenic red clayclay whose redness results from iron oxide rhodochrositea mineral consisting of manganese carbonate; a source of manganese rhodonitea pink or red mineral consisting of crystalline manganese silicate; used as an ornamental stone road metalbroken rock used for repairing or making roads sedimentary rockrock formed from consolidated clay sediments sialthe granitelike rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and aluminum simarock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and magnesium metamorphic rockrock altered by pressure and heat crushed rock, gravelrock fragments and pebbles calichenitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru shingling(geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction pumice, pumice stonea light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive animal producta product made from animal material birdlime, limea sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds spirit guman adhesive solution made of gum and ether and used to attach false hair to skin bindersomething used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface cementsomething that hardens to act as adhesive material library paste, pastean adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard rubber cementan adhesive made by dissolving unvulcanized rubber in a solvent like benzene or naphtha sealant, sealera kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface) fillerused for filling cracks or holes in a surface lute, lutinga substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid Alar, daminozidea chemical sprayed on fruit trees to regulate their growth so the entire crop can be harvested at one time aphanitefine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye carrieran inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction animal oilany oil obtained from animal substances dentin, dentinea calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth bone, osseous tissuethe porous calcified substance from which bones are made hornthe material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails shellthe material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals art papera high-quality paper (usually having a filler of china clay) mineral wool, rock woola light fibrous material used as an insulator bacteriacide, bactericideany chemical agent that destroys bacteria blotter, blotting paperabsorbent paper used to dry ink blueprint papersensitized paper used to make blueprints animal fatany fat obtained from animals carbon, carbon papera thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper carbon tetrahalidecompounds composed of 1 carbon and 4 halogen molecules carborunduman abrasive composed of silicon carbide crystals cardboard, composition boarda stiff moderately thick paper cartridge paperpaper for making cartridge cases congenera minor chemical constituent that gives a wine or liquor its distinctive character steel wool, wire woola mass of woven steel fibers used as an abrasive cementany of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth chada small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubblematerial consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds chylomicrona microscopic particle of triglycerides produced in the intestines during digestion; in the bloodstream they release their fatty acids into the blood claystonefine-grained rock consisting of compacted clay particles brown coal, lignite, wood coalintermediate between peat and bituminous coal chemical compound, compound(chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight computer paperpaper folded to permit continuous printing controlled by a computer construction paperpaper suitable for drawing and making cutouts semiconducting material, semiconductora substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities glass woolglass fibers spun and massed into bundles resembling wool corkouter bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc. crepe, crepe paperpaper with a crinkled texture; usually colored and used for decorations exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumesgases ejected from an engine as waste products dolomitea kind of sedimentary rock resembling marble or limestone but rich in magnesium carbonate drawing paperpaper that is specially prepared for use in drafting dustfine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air diatomaceous earth, diatomite, kieselguhra light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material saprolitea deposit of clay and disintegrating rock that is found in its original place dirt, soilthe part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock soil conditionera chemical substance used to improve the structure of the soil and increase its porosity emery clothcloth covered with powdered emery emery paper, sandpaperstiff paper coated with powdered emery or sand emery rock, emery stonea mixture of emery dust and a binder; can be molded into grindstones exudate, exudationa substance that oozes out from plant pores transudate, transudationa substance that transudes effluviuma foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) rheuma watery discharge from the mucous membranes (especially from the eyes or nose) vaginal dischargedischarge of secretions from the cervical glands of the vagina; normally clear or white body waste, excrement, excreta, excretion, excretory productwaste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body crud, filth, skankany substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant sewage, seweragewaste matter carried away in sewers or drains effluent, sewer water, wastewaterwater mixed with waste matter food waste, garbage, refuse, scrapsfood that is discarded (as from a kitchen) pollutantwaste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil rubbish, scrap, trashworthless material that is to be disposed of slop(usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand toxic industrial waste, toxic wastepoisonous waste materials; can cause injury (especially by chemical means) fertiliser, fertilizer, plant foodany substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile fluxa substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed conglomerate, pudding stonea composite rock made up of particles of varying size stringa tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod) fibril, filament, stranda very slender natural or synthetic fiber fieldstonestone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material filter papera porous unsized paper used for filtering flyspecka tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly flypaperpaper that is poisoned or coated with a sticky substance to kill flies foam rubberspongy rubber; made by introducing air bubbles before vulcanization and used for cushioning or upholstery fumiganta chemical substance used in fumigation graph paperpaper that has lines to permit drawing graphs greaseproof paperpaper that is impermeable to oil or grease; used in cooking greisena granitic rock composed of quartz and mica herbicide, weed killer, weedkillera chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth hyalin, hyalinea glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions identification particlea tiny particle of material that can be added to a product to indicate the source of manufacture indicator(chemistry) a substance that changes color to indicate the presence of some ion or substance; can be used to indicate the completion of a chemical reaction or (in medicine) to test for a particular reaction intermediatea substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained fractiona component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process larvicidea chemical used to kill larval pests calc-tufa, tufaa soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime magmamolten rock in the earth's crust igneous rockrock formed by the solidification of molten magma linen, linen papera high-quality paper made of linen fibers or with a linen finish limestonea sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals lintfine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers litmus paperunsized paper treated with litmus for use as an acid-base indicator manifold, manifold papera lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies manila, manila paper, manilla, manilla papera strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp marblea hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material matrix(geology) amass of fine-grained rock in which fossils, crystals, or gems are embedded mordanta substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process music paper, score paperpaper with lines appropriate for writing music man-made fiber, synthetic fiberfiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes natural fiber, natural fibrefiber derived from plants or animals newspaper, newsprintcheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers oakumloose hemp or jute fiber obtained by unravelling old ropes; when impregnated with tar it was used to caulk seams and pack joints in wooden ships oilpaperpaper that has been made translucent and waterproof by soaking in oil india papera thin tough opaque paper used in fine books pad, pad of paper, tableta number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge paper tapea long narrow strip of paper paper towelingabsorbent paper used as toweling paper-mache, papier-machea substance made from paper pulp that can be molded when wet and painted when dry papyruspaper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans parchmenta superior paper resembling sheepskin rice papera thin delicate material resembling paper; made from the rice-paper tree roofing paper, tar papera heavy paper impregnated with tar and used as part of a roof for waterproofing ticker tapea continuous thin ribbon of paper on which stock quotes are written excelsior, wood shavingsthin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing pesticidea chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects) phytochemicala chemical substance obtained from plants that is biologically active but not nutritive dye, dyestuffa usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair tincturea substances that colors metals hematochromea reddish coloring material found in some algae pigmentdry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) pigmentany substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color plant producta product made from plant material producta chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction radioactive wasteuseless radioactive materials that are left after some laboratory or commercial process is completed raveling, ravellinga bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric restrainera chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film rutilea mineral consisting of titanium dioxide in crystalline form; occurs in metamorphic and plutonic rocks and is a major source of titanium samarskitea complex black mineral occurring in pegmatites sapphirinea rare light blue or green mineral; consists of aluminum and magnesium silicate and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks scheelitea mineral used as an ore of tungsten humic shaleshale that is rich in humic acids smaltitea grey mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel; an important source of cobalt and nickel sodalitea vitreous mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate and sodium chloride in crystalline form; occurs in igneous rocks sodium pyrophosphate, tetrasodium pyrophosphatea sodium salt of pyrophosphoric acid used as a builder in soaps and detergents sodium tripolyphosphatea sodium salt of triphosphoric acid used as a builder in soaps and detergents sparany of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable spinela hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum; occurs in various colors that are used as gemstones spodumenea pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminum silicate; a source of lithium stabilizera chemical that is added to a solution or mixture or suspension to maintain it in a stable or unchanging state stain(microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible stannite, tin pyritesa dark grey mineral with a metallic luster that is a source of tin softenera substance added to another to make it less hard stibnitea soft grey mineral; the chief ore of antimony strontianitea mineral consisting of strontium carbonate vegetable tallowa waxy fat obtained from certain plants (e.g. bayberry) and used as tallow graphic tellurium, sylvanitea silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America sylvine, sylvitea mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds talc, talcuma fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate; used in a variety of products including talcum powder tantalitea mineral consisting of tantalum oxide of iron and manganese that occurs with niobite or in coarse granite; an ore of tantalum thoritea radioactive mineral consisting of thorium silicate; it is a source of thorium that is found in coarse granite thortveititea mineral consisting of scandium yttrium silicate; a source of scandium tissue, tissue papera soft thin (usually translucent) paper topaza mineral (fluosilicate of aluminum) that occurs in crystals of various colors and is used as a gemstone tourmalinea mineral that is a complex borosilicate and hydroxide of aluminum containing iron and magnesium and calcium and lithium and sodium; it is usually black but occurs in transparent colored forms that are used as gemstones tracing papera semitransparent paper that is used for tracing drawings transfer papera paper that is coated with a preparation for transferring a design to another surface tridymitea mineral form of silica tribasic sodium phosphate, trisodium orthophosphate, trisodium phosphatethe tertiary phosphate of sodium used as a builder in soaps and detergents turquoisea blue to grey green mineral consisting of copper aluminum phosphate vanadinitea mineral consisting of chloride and vanadate of lead; a source of vanadium vermiculiteany of a group of yellow or brown hydrous silicate minerals having a micaceous structure idocrase, vesuvian, vesuvianitea green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone wallpapera decorative paper for the walls of rooms waste paperpaper discarded after use wax paperpaper that has been waterproofed by treatment with wax or paraffin woodthe hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees iron manganese tungsten, wolframitea mineral consisting of iron and manganese tungstate in crystalline form; the principal ore of tungsten; found in quartz veins associated with granitic rocks wollastonitea white or greyish mineral typically found in metamorphic limestone; a silicate of calcium wrapping papera tough paper used for wrapping writing paperpaper material made into thin sheets that are sized to take ink; used for writing correspondence and manuscripts wulfenitea yellow to orange or brown mineral used as a molybdenum ore wurtzitea brownish-black mineral consisting of zinc sulfide xenotimea brown-to-yellow mineral that is a phosphate of yttrium in crystalline form zeoliteany of a family of glassy minerals analogous to feldspar containing hydrated aluminum silicates of calcium or sodium or potassium; formed in cavities in lava flows and in plutonic rocks blende, sphalerite, zinc blendean ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form zinkenitea steel grey metallic mineral (a sulphide of lead and antimony) zircon, zirconium silicatea common mineral occurring in small crystals; chief source of zirconium; used as a refractory when opaque and as a gem when transparent substance the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists 2n a critically important or characteristic component suspense is the very stuff of narrative Hyper center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience 3v press or force Stuff money into an envelope Syn|Hyper shove, squeeze, thrust force, push move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner" 4v cram into a cavity The child stuffed candy into his pockets Hypo|Hyper chock up, cram, jam, jampack, ram, wad crowd or pack to capacity overstuffstuff too much fill out, padline or stuff with soft material ratgive (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat cram put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled 5v fill tightly with a material stuff a pillow with feathers Syn|Hypo|Hyper farce fill with a stuffing while cooking cork stuff with cork fill, fill up, make full make full, also in a metaphorical sense 6v treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting stuff a bearskin Hyper impregnate, saturate infuse or fill completely 7v fill with a stuffing while cooking 2Have you stuffed the turkey yet? Syn|Hyper farce fill, fill up, make full make full, also in a metaphorical sense 1n miscellaneous unspecified objects the trunk was full of stuff Hypo|Hyper doodad, doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known etceteraadditional unspecified odds and ends; more of the same sundriesmiscellaneous objects too numerous or too small to be specified object, physical object a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow 2n information in some unspecified form it was stuff I had heard before there's good stuff in that book Hyper info, information a message received and understood 3n unspecified qualities required to do or be something the stuff of heros you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine Hyper quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone 4n informal terms for personal possessions 3Syn|Hyper clobber personal estate, personal property, personalty, private property movable property (as distinguished from real estate) n senseless talk 4don't give me that stuff Syn|Hyper hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality a message that seems to convey no meaning v obstruct 5My nose is all stuffed Syn|Ant|Hyper block, choke up, lug loosen up, unstuff cause to become unblocked back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul become or cause to become obstructed v overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself She stuffed herself at the dinner Syn|Hyper binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out eat eat a meal; take a meal |
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