stud
part of speech
noun (a stud, studs); verb (stud, studs, studded, studding)
meaning for a pupil
1) A stud is a small piece of metal or plastic sticking out of a surface, like the studs on football boots or on a jacket. tree →
2) A stud is a small earring that sits on the earlobe without hanging down. tree →
3) A stud is a farm where horses are kept for breeding. tree →
4) To be studded with something is to be covered with many small bits of it, like a sky studded with stars. tree →
5) A stud can also be the whole group of horses kept together for breeding. tree →
sense in the lessons
In PE and sports, football and rugby boots have studs to grip the grass. In everyday life, people wear stud earrings. In building, a stud is an upright wooden beam inside a wall. In stories and poems, «a crown studded with jewels».
examples
- My football boots have twelve studs. tree →
- She wears tiny silver studs in her ears. tree →
- Clean the mud out of your studs. tree →
- The jacket was covered in metal studs. tree →
- The night sky was studded with stars. tree →
- The racehorse came from a famous stud. tree →
- The crown was studded with rubies. tree →
- Nothing now remained to be done but to drive the whole stud to the emperor’s court. tree →
note
Countable noun; the verb doubles the d: «studded». Do not confuse with «study» or «student». Studs on boots help grip, but should not be worn indoors on smooth floors where they slip and scratch.
In the corpora
- Since 1958 LEGO bricks have used the same stud-and-tube fit, so very old bricks still click onto new ones.
- We will make thee circlets of gold with studs of silver.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «stud» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.