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sty | str |

As an adjective sty

is hundredth.

As a noun str is

.

sty

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(sties)
  • A pen or enclosure for swine.
  • (figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
  • * Milton
    • To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty .
    Synonyms
    * (enclosure for swine) pigpen, pigsty * (messy or dirty place) hovel, pigsty

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To place in, or as if in, a sty.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), .

    Alternative forms

    * stee, stie, stigh

    Verb

  • (label) To ascend, rise up, climb.
  • * 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Isaiah LIII:
    • And he schal stie as a ?erde bifor him, and as a roote fro þirsti lond.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
    • The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].
    Derived terms
    * *

    Noun

    (sties)
  • A ladder.

    • Etymology 3

    Probably a .

    Alternative forms

    * stye

    Noun

    (sties)
  • (label) An inflammation of the eyelid.

    • str

    English

    Initialism

    (en noun)
  • (genetics) short tandem repeat.
  • * 2006, Lars Feuk et al.'', “ Structural variation in the human genome”, ''Nature , 7:85
    • These observations lead us to predict that structural genomic variants are as important as SNPs, short tandem repeats (STRs ) and other small changes in their contribution to genome variation.
  • (finance) suspicious transaction report.
  • (computing) suspend to RAM.

    • See also

    * (wikipedia "STR")

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