Stat vs Stern - What's the difference?
stat | stern |
Immediately; now; usually used in medical situations, to connote extreme urgency.
(slang, gaming, transitive) To assign statistics to (a monster, etc. in a game).
Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
* (John Dryden)
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, title= Grim and forbidding in appearance.
* (William Wordsworth)
(nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
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, title= (figurative) The post of management or direction.
* (William Shakespeare)
The hinder part of anything.
The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
(l) (luminous dot appearing in the night sky)
As nouns the difference between stat and stern
is that stat is short for statistic while stern is the rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.As an adverb stat
is immediately; now; usually used in medical situations, to connote extreme urgency.As a verb stat
is to assign statistics to (a monster, etc. in a game).As an adjective stern is
having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.stat
English
(wikipedia stat)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adverb
(en adverb)Etymology 2
Abbreviation.Verb
- If you stat it, they will kill it.
Anagrams
* ----stern
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) stern, sterne, sturne, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- stern as tutors, and as uncles hard
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.}}
- these barren rocks, your stern inheritance
Etymology 2
Most likely from (etyl) , from the same Germanic root.Noun
(wikipedia stern) (en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern', just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the ' stern .}}
- and sit chiefest stern of public weal
- (Spenser)
