📖 S — The English dictionary · page 87

squish — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) To squash something soft, so it gets flat or out of shape.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make a soft wet sound, as when walking in mud.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) The sound or feeling of something soft being squashed.↗ Example: Don't squish the tomatoes in the bag!↗ · My boots squished in the mud.↗ · The clay squished between my fingers.↗ · Squish up so I can sit down.↗ · I accidentally squished a spider.↗ · The cake got squished in my backpack.↗

squishy — Everyday, meaning 1: Squishy means soft and wet or soft and easy to squeeze, so it changes shape when pressed: squishy mud, a squishy tomato.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A squishy is a soft squeezy toy that slowly goes back to its shape.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Squishy can also mean soft-hearted or a bit unclear and not firm.↗ Example: I stepped in squishy mud at the park.↗ · That banana is too squishy to eat.↗ · My squishy toy looks like a strawberry.↗ · The jelly felt squishy and cold.↗ · Kids at school collect squishies.↗ · The sofa cushions are really squishy.↗ · Squeeze the sponge; feel how squishy it is when wet.↗

ss — Everyday, meaning 1: (abbreviation) SS before a ship's name stands for steamship, as in the SS Great Britain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history) The SS was a violent Nazi military and police force in Germany during the Second World War, which ran concentration camps and carried out the Holocaust.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (abbreviation) ss can mean screenshot in online chat.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (spelling) ss is a double letter in many words, as in miss, class, kiss, often at the end after a short vowel.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (abbreviation, church) Ss is short for Saints, as in Ss Peter and Paul.↗ Example: The SS Great Britain is a famous ship in Bristol.↗ · We visited the SS Great Britain on a school trip.↗ · The SS ran the Nazi concentration camps.↗ · Miss, class and grass all end in ss.↗ · Send me a ss of the score.↗ (chat slang)↗ · The church is called Ss Peter and Paul.↗

sss — Everyday, meaning 1: "Sss" is the hissing sound of a snake, written down.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It can be the sound of air or steam escaping, or of something sizzling.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In phonics, /s/ or "sss" is how teachers say the sound of the letter s.↗ Example: "Sssss!" hissed the snake from behind the rock.↗ · The tyre went "sss" as the air came out.↗ · Sausages went "sss" in the hot pan.↗ · In phonics, the letter s says "sss", like a snake.↗ · "Sss — keep your voice down!" whispered my friend.↗ · The kettle went "sssss" before it boiled.↗ · Draw a snake and write "sss" in a speech bubble.↗

stab — Everyday, meaning 1: To stab means to push a knife or other sharp, pointed thing into someone or something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To stab can mean to push or poke something hard with a pointed object or finger.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A stab is a sudden sharp pain or feeling («a stab of pain», «a stab of jealousy»).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To have a stab at something means to try it («Have a stab at the answer»).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A stab can also be a small prick or wound made by something sharp.↗ Example: Stab the potatoes with a fork before baking them.↗ · Have a stab at the hard question.↗ · I felt a stab of pain in my side while running.↗ · Carrying a knife to stab someone is a crime.↗ · He stabbed the button angrily with his finger.↗ · She felt a stab of jealousy when her friend won.↗ · Telling my secret was a stab in the back.↗ · Never stab at things with scissors.↗

stabbing — Everyday, meaning 1: A stabbing is a crime or attack in which someone is hurt with a knife or sharp object.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A stabbing pain is a sudden, sharp pain, as if something pointed is pushing in.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Stabbing is the -ing form of «stab»: pushing something pointed into something, like a fork into food.↗ Example: There was a stabbing in the city, and the police are looking for the attacker.↗ · I felt a stabbing pain in my side after running.↗ · He was stabbing at his food with his fork.↗ · She kept stabbing the button, but the lift did not come.↗ · A stabbing pain in your chest means you should tell an adult at once.↗ · Knife crime and stabbings are very serious.↗ · Gopani-Kufa considered for a moment, then stabbing the antelope with his assegai, he set the python free.↗

stabiliser — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK) Stabilisers are the two small extra wheels on the back of a child's bicycle that stop it falling over while you learn to ride (US: training wheels).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A stabiliser is any part or device that keeps something steady, such as the fins on a ship or the small horizontal wings at the back of an aeroplane.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (food, science) A stabiliser is a substance added to food or chemicals to keep them mixed and stop them changing.↗ Example: I learned to ride without stabilisers when I was five.↗ · Dad took the stabilisers off my bike.↗ · In America they call stabilisers training wheels.↗ · Big ships have stabilisers to stop them rolling in waves.↗ · The ice cream has a stabiliser to keep it smooth.↗ · The plane's stabiliser helps it fly straight.↗ · She still needs stabilisers on her bike.↗

stabilising — Everyday, meaning 1: Making something steady and less likely to move, fall or change.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Becoming steady after a time of change, like prices, weather or a patient's health.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Helping to keep something steady: «stabilising wheels», «stabilising effect».↗ Example: The doctors are stabilising the injured man.↗ · His temperature is stabilising now.↗ · Stabilising wheels help small children learn to ride.↗ · The wide base is stabilising the tower so it won't topple.↗ · Prices are slowly stabilising after a big jump.↗ · The ship has fins for stabilising it in rough seas.↗

stability — Everyday, meaning 1: Stability is being steady and not likely to fall over, move or change suddenly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Stability in a life, family, country or job means things stay calm and safe and do not keep changing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) Stability is how well a structure or object stays balanced and upright.↗ Example: A wide base gives a tower more stability.↗ · The bike's training wheels add stability.↗ · Children need stability and love at home.↗ · The boat lost its stability in the big waves.↗ · Test the stability of your paper bridge by adding coins.↗ · The country wants peace and stability after the war.↗ · And the stability of thy times shall be a hoard of salvation — wisdom and knowledge, and the fear of the LORD which is His treasure.↗ (Prophets ISA.33.6, JPS 1917)↗

stable — Everyday, meaning 1: Stable means steady and firm, not likely to move, wobble, fall or change.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A stable is a building where horses are kept and fed.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A person or a situation that is stable is calm and not changing much, like a patient in a stable condition.↗ Example: A wide base makes the tower more stable.↗ · The ladder must be stable before you climb it.↗ · The horses are in the stable for the night.↗ · We went to the riding stables for a lesson.↗ · The patient is now in a stable condition.↗ · The weather will stay stable all week.↗ · Triangles make bridges strong and stable.↗ · Black, fiery horses, neighed in the stables.↗ · The Twenty-third Path is the Stable Intelligence, (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Twenty-third Path is the Stable Intelligence, and it is so called because it has the virtue of consistency among all numerations.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Siphra Dtzeniouta, or Book of Concealed Mystery, translated by Mac Gregor Mathers, in his " Kabalah Denudata," opens with a reference to this Equilibrium as a fundamental neces- sity of stable existence.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

stableman — Everyday, meaning 1: A stableman is a man whose job is to look after horses in a stable: feeding them, cleaning them and exercising them.↗ Example: The stableman brushed the horse until its coat shone.↗ · Every morning the stableman fed the horses.↗ · The stablemen led the king's horses out to the field.↗ · The new stableman knew how to calm a wild horse.↗

stack — Everyday, meaning 1: A stack is a neat pile of things one on top of another.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To stack is to make such a pile.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Stacks of something means a lot of it (informal): «stacks of homework».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A stack is also a tall chimney.↗ Example: There are 5 stacks of 10 plates.↗ · She stacks 24 books in 3 stacks.↗ · Each stack has 12 boxes.↗ · How tall is a stack of 8 cups?↗ · Please stack your chairs before you go home.↗ · He ate a stack of pancakes with syrup.↗ · We stacked cubes into a tower of 10.↗ · I have stacks of homework tonight.↗ · How does our team stack up against theirs?↗ · Then he hastily stepped behind the wood stack, and waited for what might happen next.↗

stacte — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A sweet-smelling resin or gum that drips from a tree and is used to make perfume or incense.↗ Example: And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense; of each shall there be a like weight.↗ (Torah EXO.30.34, JPS 1917)↗

stadium — Everyday, meaning 1: A stadium is a big place with rows of seats around a field or track where people watch sports or concerts.↗ Example: The stadium has 30,000 seats.↗ · 18,500 fans came to the stadium.↗ · Each row has 40 seats.↗ · How many seats were empty?↗ · The crowd in the stadium cheered when the team scored.↗ · We went to the stadium to watch the rugby final.↗ · If you get lost in the stadium, go to a steward.↗ · The new stadium has a roof that can open.↗

staff — Everyday, meaning 1: The staff are all the people who work for a school, shop, hospital or company.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A staff is a long, strong stick used for walking or carried as a sign of power.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In music, the staff (or stave) is the set of five lines that notes are written on.↗ Example: The school staff had a meeting after lessons.↗ · Ask a member of staff if you need help.↗ · The hospital staff were very kind to Grandma.↗ · Teachers drink tea in the staff room.↗ · The old shepherd leaned on his wooden staff.↗ · The wizard raised his staff and the lights went out.↗ · Draw a treble clef at the start of the staff.↗ · The shop is short of staff today.↗ · Suddenly the door opened, and an ancient dame leaning on a staff hobbled out.↗ · And the ass saw the angel of the LORD, and she lay down under Balaam; and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with his staff.↗ (Torah NUM.22.27, JPS 1917)↗ · The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, as long as men come to Shiloh; and unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be.↗ (Torah GEN.49.10, JPS 1917)↗ · When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.↗ (Torah LEV.26.26, JPS 1917)↗ · The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers, (Prophets ISA.14.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And He called a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.↗ (Writings PSA.105.16, JPS 1917)↗ · O Asshur, the rod of Mine anger, in whose hand as a staff is Mine indignation!↗ (Prophets ISA.10.5, JPS 1917)↗

stag — Everyday, meaning 1: A stag is an adult male deer, usually one with large branching antlers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A stag party or stag night is a party for a man just before his wedding, with only his male friends (mostly UK, Ireland, Australia).↗ Example: A stag stood at the edge of the forest.↗ · The stag's antlers had twelve points.↗ · In autumn the stags roar and fight for the herd.↗ · We saw a stag and two does in the park in Scotland.↗ · A stag beetle crawled across the log.↗ · Stags drop their antlers every year and grow new ones.↗ · My uncle had his stag party the week before the wedding.↗ · The ranger told us never to go close to a stag in the rutting season.↗

stage — Everyday, meaning 1: A stage is a raised floor in a theatre or hall where people act, sing or speak.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A stage is one step or part in a process or a time of growth.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To stage a play or event is to put it on for people to watch.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «The stage» can mean acting as a job.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A stage coach was a large horse-drawn coach that carried passengers along a road in the past.↗ Example: Our class sang songs on the stage.↗ · A caterpillar is one stage in the life of a butterfly.↗ · Solve the problem in two stages.↗ · She had stage fright before the concert.↗ · The school staged a play about the Romans.↗ · The building is in the last stage of work.↗ · At this stage, nobody knew the treasure was gone.↗ · The tadpole is the second stage of a frog's life.↗ · The stage coach went rattling past.↗ · And Moses wrote their goings forth, stage by stage, by the commandment of the LORD; and these are their stages at their goings forth.↗ (Torah NUM.33.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And the children of Israel set forward by their stages out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran. — (Torah NUM.10.12, JPS 1917)↗ · These are the stages of the children of Israel, by which they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the hand of Moses and Aaron.↗ (Torah NUM.33.1, JPS 1917)↗