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Stud vs Sted - What's the difference?

stud | sted |

As nouns the difference between stud and sted

is that stud is a male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding or stud can be a small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob while sted is town.

As a verb stud

is to set with ; to furnish with studs.

stud

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
  • A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
  • A group of such animals.
  • * Macaulay
    • He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • In the studs of Ireland, where care is taken, we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, and size.
  • An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
  • A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
  • (colloquial) A sexually attractive male; also a lover in great demand.
    • Synonyms
    * (sexually attractive male) he-man, hunk * (male animal) sire
    Derived terms
    * studbook * studding * studly * stud puppy

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) studu .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
    • a collar with studs
  • * Marlowe
    • A belt of straw and ivy buds, / With coral clasps and amber studs .
  • * Milton
    • Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems / And studs of pearl.
  • (jewelry) A small round earring.
    • She's wearing studs in her ears.
  • (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
  • (obsolete) A stem; a trunk.
  • * Spenser
    • Seest not this same hawthorn stud ?
  • (poker) A type of poker where an individual cannot throw cards away and some of her cards are exposed (also stud poker).
  • (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
  • (engineering) A stud bolt.
  • An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
    • Derived terms
    * studded

    Verb

    (studd)
  • To set with ; to furnish with studs.
  • To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
  • * 2012 , Antony Cooke, Dark Nebulae, Dark Lanes, and Dust Belts , page 82:
    • [S]eemingly countless young hot stars stud the entire huge central region[.]
  • To set (something) over a surface at intervals.
  • * 2010 , Rose Levy Beranbaum, Rose's Heavenly Cakes :
    • Stud the cake all over with chocolate chips, pointed ends in.

    References

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    Anagrams

    * English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    sted

    English

    Alternative forms

    * stead, stedd

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1500 , Le Bone Florence of Rome
    • They dud wyth hym as wyth þe dedd; They beryed hym in a ryall stedd .
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser:
    • And false Duessa in her sted had borne
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1927 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Hélène Adeline Guerber , title=Myths of Greece and Rome , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Library of Alexandria , isbn=9781465523464 , page= , passage=But in the gloomy court was rais'd a bed, / Stuff'd with black plumes, and on an ebon sted }}

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (short for) instead of
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date=2010-02-22 , year= , first= , last= , author= , authorlink= , title=Hong Kong rejoices over Berlin film prize , site=Long Island Press citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-07-25 , passage=(This version CORRECTS Corrects title of movie to ‘Echoes of the Rainbow’ sted ‘Echoes of a Rainbow.’) }}
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date=2010-05-10 , year= , first= , last= , author=Vicki Smith, Holbrook Mohr , authorlink= , title=Gulf Oil Spill: Unemployed Fishermen Struggling To Get By , site=Huffington Post citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-07-25 , passage=Eds: CORRECTS name of city to 'Pass Christian' sted 'Port'. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Video. }}

    References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia Supplement, Vol. XII, Page 1269, sted, steddy ----