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Definition: Sting |
StingNoun1. A kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles". 2. A mental pain or distress; "a pang of conscience". 3. A painful wound caused by the thrust of a stinger into skin. 4. A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. Verb1. Cause a sharp of stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face". 2. Of insects, scorpions, or other animals; "A bee stung my arm yesterday.". 3. Saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill". 4. Cause a stinging pain. 5. Cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark stung her". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Computing | STING A parallel dialect of Scheme intended to serve as a high-level operating system for symbolic programming languages. First-class threads and processors and customisable scheduling policies. E-mail: |
Dream Interpretation | To feel that any insect stings you in a dream, is a foreboding of evil and unhappiness. For a young woman to dream that she is stung, is ominous of sorrow and remorse from over-confidence in men. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Slang | Noun. Source: Comes from the idea of a bee sting. Definition: An undercover operation. Context: Used between officers in a confidential setting. Social Source: Young Law Enforcement Officers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Transportation | Projecting arm to the forward end of which a satellite model can be attached. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An arm, projecting upstream in a wind tunnel, to the forward end of which a model can be attached. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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- In biology a sting is the part of a number of animals, such as wasps, bees and scorpions, that delivers a poison when used to pierce the skin of another animal. See sting (biology)
- In law enforcement a sting is an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime. See sting operation...
- ...Hence the title of The Sting, a 1973 film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford which features such an operation
- In The Hobbit, Sting is the name of Bilbo's sword, passed on to Frodo in The Lord of the Rings. See Sting (Middle-earth)
- Sting is the stage name of Gordon Sumner, the bassist and former lead singer of The Police until their breakup in 1983.
- Sting (Steve Borden) was a pro-wrestler with World Championship Wrestling during the 1990's and a former WCW World Champion.
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A sting (or stinger) is:1. Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a snake.
2. A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
"Sting" also refers to the wound caused by a stinger, and used as a verb "to sting" is to inflict such a wound.
Source: OPTED, Project Gutenberg and the 1913 edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
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An artifact from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy universe of Middle-earth, Sting was an Elvish knife made of mithril in Gondolin in the First Age. It was used as a sword by Bilbo, who found it in a troll-hoard together with Glamdring and Orcrist. Bilbo gave Sting to Frodo, just before the Fellowship of the Ring set off from Rivendell.It has the magic ablilty to detect an orc presence near it. When this presence is felt, it glows blue, as it did before the fight in the mines of Moria when the orcs attacked the Fellowship.
Gollum is afraid of Sting. This fear helped Bilbo when confronting Gollum under the mountain in The Hobbit. It also helped Frodo tame Gollum (temporarily) in The Lord of the Rings.
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Gordon Matthew Sumner (born October 2, 1951), best known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician and formerly bassist and lead singer of The Police.Sumner was born in Newcastle, England to Audrey and Eric, a milkman. From an early age, he knew that he wanted to be a musician. He attended the University of Warwick in Coventry, but did not graduate. From 1971 to 1974, he attended Northern Counties Teacher Training College.
Before playing music professionally, Sumner worked as a ditch digger and a teacher of English. His first music gigs were where ever he could get a job. He played with local jazz bands such as the Phoenix Jazzmen and Last Exit. It is most likely that he gained his nickname while with the Jazzmen. He once performed wearing a black and yellow striped jersey that fellow band member Gordon Solomon had noted made him look like a bee, thus he became Sting. He uses Sting almost exclusively, except on official documents.
In 1977, Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers, formed the rock/pop band The Police in London. The group had several chart topping albums and won six Grammy Awards in the early 1980s. Their last album, Synchronicity was released in 1983. The Police attempted a reunion in 1986 with re-recording of their song "Don't Stand So Close to Me", but did not stay together.
Sting has occasionally ventured into acting. He made his film debut in 1979's Quadrophenia. Apart from playing a devil-like character in Brimstone and Treacle (1982), one of his more famous roles was that of Feyd-Rautha in the 1984 film adaptation of Dune. He has also made appearances on television (including guest spots on The Simpsons and Ally McBeal) and stage. Most of his later credits in films and TV are for his music.
1985's The Dream of the Blue Turtles was Sting's first solo album. It included the hit single "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free". Within a year, it reached Triple Platinum. Sting released Nothing Like the Sun (1987), including the hit songs "We'll Be Together" and "Be Still My Beating Heart", dedicated to his recently deceased mother. It eventually went Double Platinum and was recognized as one of the most important rock & roll albums of the 1980s.
In the late 1980s, Sting strongly supported environmentalism and humanitarian movements, including Amnesty International. With long-time girlfriend Trudie Styler and a Kayapó Indian leader in Brazil, he founded the Rainforest Foundation to help save the rainforests. His support for these causes continues to this day.
His 1991 album The Soul Cages was dedicated to his recently deceased father and included the top 10 song "All this Time" and the Grammy winning "Soul Cages". The album eventually went Platinum. The following year, he married Trudie Styler and was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in music from Northumbria University. In 1993, he released the album Ten Summoner's Tales, which went Triple Platinum in just over a year. In May, he released a remix of the title song "Demolition Man" from the Demolition Man film.
Sting reached a pinnacle of success in 1994. Together with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, they performed the chart-topping song "All For Love" from the film The Three Musketeers. The song stayed at the top for five weeks and went Platinum. In February, he won two more Grammy Awards and was nominated for three more. The Berklee College of Music gave him his second honorary doctorate of music degree in May. Finally in November, he released a greatest hits compilation called Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting, which was eventually certified Double Platinum.
Sting's 1996 album, Mercury Falling debuted strongly, but dropped quickly on the charts. Yet, he reached the Top 40 with two singles the same year with "You Still Touch Me" (June) and "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" (December). In 1998, he appeared in the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Sting made a (partial) comeback with the September 1999 album Brand New Day, including the Top 40 hits "Brand New Day" and "Desert Rose" (Top 10). The album went Triple Platinum by January 2001. In 2000, he won Grammy Awards for Brand New Day and the song of the same name. At the awards ceremony, he performed "Desert Rose" with Cheb Mami. For his performance, the Arab-American Institute Foundation gave him the Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Award.
Sting kicked off 2001 with a performance during the Super Bowl's half time show. He added another Grammy to his collection in February. In April, while landing in Italy, his plane skidded off the runway, but he was not injured. His song "After the Rain has Fallen" made it into the Top 40. On September 11, he recorded a new live album in Italy, but the Internet simulcast was canceled after the terrorist attack on New York. Later, Sting performed "Fragile" for the fundraiser America: A Tribute to Heroes. His live album, All This Time, recorded on a moonlit night in Tuscany, was released in November but did not gather healthy sales figures. All This Time featured jazzy reworkings of Sting favorites like "Roxanne" and "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free".
2002 was a year of awards for Sting. He won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for his second Academy Award for his song "Until..." from the film Kate & Leopold. In June, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Late in the year, it was announced that The Police would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2003.
2003 also saw the release of Sacred Love, an original studio album with racier beats and experiments collaborating with hip-hop artist Mary J. Blige and sitar maestro Anoushka Ravishankar. Some songs like "Inside" and "Dead Man's Rope" were well received, but overall the sounds suffer from a repetitiveness that lead many to believe that Sting is past his best.
Sting married actress Frances Tomelty in 1976. The couple had two children before their divorce in 1982. Soon after, he began living with actress (and later film producer) Trudie Styler but did not marry until 1992. Sting and Trudie have had four children. His son with Frances, Joseph, is following in his father's footsteps as a musician. Though Sting reportedly owns several properties in the United Kingdom and the United States, he currently calls Tuscany his home.
It is unclear whether he was serious when he referred to himself as "manic-depressive". He has however, written a song entitled "Lithium Sunset", which appears to refer to lithium carbonate, a treatment for the disorder.
In the summer of 2003, Sumner was made a Commander in The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE). Later that year, he published his autobiography, Broken Music.
External links
- Sting's official site: http://www.sting.com/
- The Rainforest Foundation: http://www.rainforestfoundation.org/
- About.com on his possible bipolar condition
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sting (musician)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
STING | English | Stellar Inertial Guidance | Engineering & Technology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: StingSynonyms: bunco (n), bunco game (n), bunko (n), bunko game (n), con (n), con game (n), confidence game (n), confidence trick (n), flimflam (n), gyp (n), hustle (n), insect bite (n), pang (n), stinging (n), bite (v), burn (v), prick (v), stick (v), twinge (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bane | Sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle. |
Excitation | Irritate, sting; cut to the heart, cut to the quick; try one's temper; fool to the top of one's bent, pique; infuriate, madden, make one's blood boil; lash into fury; (wrath). |
Pain | Irritate, provoke, sting, nettle, try the patience, pique, fret, rile, tweak the nose, chafe, gall; sting to the quick, wound to the quick, cut to the quick; aggrieve, affront, enchafe, enrage, ruffle, sour the temper; give offense; (resentment). |
Cancer, ulcer, sting, thorn; canker; (bane); scorpion; (evil doer); dagger; (arms); scourge; (instrument of punishment); carking care, canker worm of care. | |
Physical Pain | Sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting, gnawing pain, burning pain; excruciating pain. |
Give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; cruciate, excruciate; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog. (punish); grate on the ear. (harsh sound). | |
Resentment | Cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e.; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw. |
Sensations of Touch | Verb: itch, tingle, creep, thrill, sting; prick, prickle; tickle,Verb: itch, tingle, creep, thrill, sting; prick, prickle; tickle, titillate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sting |
| English words defined with "sting": aculeus ♦ bee sting, Butterfly ray ♦ Dasyatidae ♦ family Dasyatidae, fire ant, Fireflaire, flea bite ♦ mason wasp, mosquito bite ♦ Piercer ♦ scorpion, Sephen, Solitary ant, Stang, Stingaree, stinging, stingless, Stingtail ♦ Tarantula killer, Trygon ♦ Unsting, Urticate ♦ WASP, Wasp fly, Whip scorpion, Whipparee. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sting": CALATHEA ALLOUIA, CALATOLA ♦ Fish Venoms ♦ red weaver ant ♦ sea wasp ♦ WASP, white head-nettle. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sting": Stingo. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sting" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (kick, prick, punch, sting, twinge, zing). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | One sting, and you'll be singing as your soul ascends (The Little Prince; writing credit: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; Alan Jay Lerner) Not that a sting would do me any damage, it's just tonight's special (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero (Zoolander; writing credit: Drake Sather; Ben Stiller) I caught a big fat bug right in my spider web and now the spider gets to give the bug a big sting. Sting (Spider Baby, or The Maddest Story Ever Told; writing credit: Jack Hill) Now would you say that that's more than fifty yards away from Sting, his wife, or a member of his family (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | Like Sting I'm Tantric (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) Ring through my ears and sting my eyes (La Isla Bonita; performing artist: Madonna) God has let me release a sting (The Scorpion Lament; performing artist: The Roches) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Of Thee I Sting (1946) The Sting of Stings (1927) Sting of the Scorpion (1923) The Sting of Victory (1916) Tail Sting (2001) | |
Song Titles | All For Love (performing artist: Rod Stewart, & Sting Bryan Adams) All This Time (performing artist: Sting) Fields Of Gold (performing artist: Sting) Fortress Around Your Heart (performing artist: Sting) If I Ever Lose My Faith In You (performing artist: Sting) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Poison hairs covering this caterpillar can inflict a painful sting. Credit: CDC. |  | A huge sting ray off the Carolinas. This fish was put back in the water alive. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Letting the sting ray go. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Plate 245. The Southern Sting Ray. Trygon sabina, Le S. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Colorful fireworm projecting from a coral head has a sting if touched. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Emergency Treatment of Insect Sting Allergy. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The prairie dog sickened at the sting of the hornet or a diplomatic puppet exhibiting his deceptions. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lo, the fell monster with the deadly sting who passes mountains, breaks through fenced walls and firm embattled spears, and with his filth taints all the world - Dante's Inferno. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The prairie dog sickened at the sting of the hornet or a diplomatic puppet exhibiting his deceptions / J[ames] Akin fect. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Sting texture" by Sean Sullivan Commentary: "Just a shot of a wall texture." | "Wasp with Sting" by Gary McCord Commentary: "Wasp with sting." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Bee; killer bees; hornets; hornet; wasp; sting; stinger; swarm; hornet's nest. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Bp. Horne | The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience. |
Dante Alighieri | O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! |
Edward Young | To leave a sting within a brother's heart. |
Frederika Bremer | There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. |
Lord Byron | Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. |
Oscar Wilde | Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. |
| The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. | |
Samuel Johnson | A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This question Marius felt like a sting. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | To bear even the sting of an insect for all eternity would be a dreadful torment |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The air and the sky darkened and through them the sun shone redly, and there was a raw sting in the air. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | These fields were intermingled with woods of half a sting, and the tallest trees, as I could judge, appeared to be seven feet high |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Open sores from scratching may cause malathion to sting the scalp. (references) | |
In this system, thousands of nerve endings—especially on the moist surfaces of the eyes, nose, mouth, and throat—give rise to sensations like the sting of ammonia, the coolness of menthol, and the irritation of chili peppers. (references) | ||
The drawback to these medications is that they may take a week or so to be maximally effective and can sting and even damage the nasal septum (the soft bony division in the middle of the nose) if the spray is directed at it. Tell your doctor if you have any bloody discharge while using these sprays. (references) | ||
Business | One cautionary note, however, is that businesses still feeling the sting of the economic crisis and finding borrowing money difficult are reluctant to invest vast sums of money in technologies that they do not see giving an immediate benefit to production. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guatemala | There was no progress in the ongoing investigation by the Prosecutor's office into the February 2000 case in which police officers conducted a sting operation without a warrant against street vendors of pirated music recordings in an outdoor market in Guatemala City, killing one person, Francisco Ixcoy Osorio, and injuring others. (references) |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | In an effort to combat prostitution, the Dubai police conduct special patrols in areas frequented by prostitutes, and the immigration and police forces have formed special units that conduct raids and sting operations in areas known to be frequented by prostitutes. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Madonna | I met him at a lunch at a sort of garden party in the middle of the summer in the backyard of Sting and Trudy's house in London in the English countryside. |
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| "Sting" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.12% of the time. "Sting" is used about 513 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60.12% | 309 | 16,435 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.59% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 14.2% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.09% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Total | 100.00% | 513 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "sting". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Derbe | N/A | Biblical | A sting |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "sting": bee sting ♦ nettle sting ♦ sting for ♦ sting in its tail ♦ sting moth ♦ sting of conscience ♦ sting on the raw ♦ sting ray ♦ sting winkle ♦ wasp's sting. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sting": Sting-ray. | |
Ending with "sting": bee-sting, drug-sting, fish-sting, four-sting, non-sting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
sting | 2,963 | sting ray fish | 64 |
sting ray | 755 | sting and the police | 61 |
bee sting | 673 | bee sting remedy | 53 |
sting ray boat | 429 | picture ray sting | 53 |
sting the wrestler | 344 | sting mp3 | 47 |
wcw sting | 327 | yellow jacket sting | 47 |
corvette sting ray | 324 | sting desert rose | 47 |
wasp sting | 268 | 1969 corvette ray sting | 46 |
lyrics sting | 175 | borden steve sting | 46 |
jelly fish sting | 119 | g sting | 44 |
veo sting ray | 111 | 1977 corvette sting ray | 43 |
sting wrestling | 110 | hornet sting | 40 |
schwinn sting ray | 109 | sting and music | 39 |
sting ray city | 103 | bumble bee sting | 35 |
charlotte sting | 102 | freshwater sting ray | 34 |
scorpion sting | 102 | bee dog sting | 34 |
sting wwe | 97 | driver ray sting veo | 33 |
craig david sting | 81 | sting ray bloody mary mix | 33 |
bee sting therapy | 70 | sting tab | 32 |
bee sting treatment | 70 | hydrofoil ray sting | 29 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "sting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | angel (hook, prickle). (various references) | |
Albanian | shpoj (bore, broach, drill, drive, flesh, hole, impale, jab, perforate, Pierce, pink, poke, prick, prickle, punch, puncture, run through, Spike, spit, stab, stick), thumboj (bite, nip), thumbim (nip), thumb (clapper, cleat, dart, nipple, Pike, sneer, Spike, stinger, tack, taunt, tongue of bell, wisecrack), therje (acuteness, butchery, mordacity, prick, prickle, slaughter, throat cutting, tingle), ther (bite, butcher, cut, knife, slaughter, smart, take to one's heels, tingle), pickim (nip, pinch, pluck), lëndoj (harm, Harrow, hurt, injure, wound), gjallëroj (animate, enliven, ensoul, exhilarate, illumine, inspirit, liven, liven up, move, pep, quicken, relieve, renew, revive, rouse, set about, smarten up, spirit, spiritualize, stir, tense, vitalize, vivify, warm up), djegje (burn, combustion, cremation, incineration, scald, scorch, skald), djeg (bake, bite, burn, burn down, carbonate, carbonize, cauterize, char, consume, cremate, grill, gut, incinerate, scald, set on fire). (various references) | |
Arabic | لسعة, لسع (bite, biting, dig, hurt with words, nettle, offend, stinging), لدغة, لدغ (bite, biting, burr, lisp, nettle, pinch, stinging, strike), قرص (bite, jab, nip, nip out, nipping, pill, pinch, tweak), وخز (jab, jabbing, pang, prickle, thrusting, tickling, twinge), حمة, غش (adulterate, adulteration, bilk, cheat, cheating, copy, debase, deceit, deceive, deception, defraudation, diddle, falsify, fudge, jiggery pokery, nobble, rig, sell, short, swindle), جلد بالسوط (flick, lash, strap), جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, stamina, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping), جرح (break, cut, flesh wound, gash, hurt, incision, injure, injury, lacerate, laceration, lesion, maim, make mischief, maul, pierce, shoot, slash, stab, wing, wound, wounding), الم حاد, إبتز (blackmail, carry favor, carry favour, diddle, exact, extort, outdistance, pump, squeeze out, swindle), أحرق (blaze, burn, burnt, char, deflagrate, fire, incinerate, kiln, light, parch, scald, sear, singe, sizzle, smart). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | остра парлива болка, причинявам остра болка, лютя, жило (dart, head, stinger), жиля (bite), жегвам (nettle), жегване, парливост (causticity, hotness), ожулвам (abrade, gall, rase, raw, raze, rub sore, scrape), уязвявам, възбуждам (actuate, agitate, arouse, engage, enkindle, excite, ferment, heat, inflame, irritate, key up, pique, provoke, raise, set up, stimulate, stir, thrill, turn on), терзая, щипя (bite, nip, pinch, tingle), язвителност (acerbity, acidity, acrimony, bitterness, incision, mordacity, pungency, vitriol), смъдеж, смъдя (smart), ужилване, жуля (chafe, scour, scrub, tingle). (various references) | |
Chinese | 蜇 (stinging, stung), 叮 (to ask), 刺 (assassinate, murder, pierce, prick, stab, thorn, thrust). (various references) | |
Czech | dotknout, štípanec, štípnout (nip, tweak), štípnutí (bite, nip, pinch, tweak), žahavka, žihadlo, bodnout (stab), šlehat (beat, flog, gush out, lash, switch, whip, whisk), dát žihadlo, výèitka (accusation, compunction, reproach, twit), osten (prick, prickle, quill, Spike, spine, spur, thorn), pálení (baking, smart), píchat (prickle), píchnutí (jab, puncture, stab), podráždit (excite, nettle), popálit (burn), uštknout (bite), bodnutí (jab, prick, stab, stitch, thrust). (various references) | |
Danish | stikke (pick, stab). (various references) | |
Dutch | steken (enter, insert, lay down, pick, place, put, put down, put in, stab), prikken (pick, stab), priemen (pick, stab), pikken (abide, endure, pick, put up with, stab, tolerate), angel (hook, prickle). (various references) | |
Esperanto | piko (prick, spades), pikilo, piki (pick, stab). (various references) | |
Faeroese | prika (pick, stab). (various references) | |
Farsi | نیش زدن (Bite), نیش (Bite, Nip, Prick, Tang, Tooth, Twinge), گزیدن (Bite, Choose, Select), تیرکشیدن (Pang, Stab, Twinge), سوزش (Ignition, Irritation, Nip, Twinge, Urticaria(L)), زخم نیش , خلش . (various references) | |
Finnish | pistin (bayonet), pistää (bite, pick, prick, put, stab, stick). (various references) | |
French | piquer (stab, stick in, stitch), aiguillon, dard. (various references) | |
Frisian | angel (fishing rod, prickle). (various references) | |
German | stechen (be prickly, beat down, bite, check out, clock in, clock on, cut, engrave, jab, kill, pang, pick, Pierce, prick, prickle, puncture, ring in, run off, spear, stab, stick, take, take the trick, twinge), Stachel (barb, goad, Pike, prick, prickle, quill, Spike, spine, spur, thorn), Stich (bite, engraving, grasp, hint, jab, lurch, pang, piercing pain, prick, puncture, spades, stab, stab wound, stitch, suggestion, taint, thrust, tinge, trick, twinge). (various references) | |
Greek | κεντρί (dart, pricker), κεντρίζω (bite, goad, nettle, prod, spur), τσιμπώ (bite, nab, nibble, nip, pinch, stung, tweak, twinge). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לעקוץ (be sarcastic, bite, catch, dig, needle), לעקצץ, לכאוב (ache, feel pain, hurt, pain, smart, sore, suffer), להונות (beguile, cheat, deceive, defraud, fraud, swindle), להכיש (bite, knock, snap), לדרבן (egg on, goad, prod, spur, stimulate, stir up, urge), לרמות (bamboozle, cheat, deceit, deceive, dupe, fob, fool, hoodwnk, humbug, shortchange, swindle, take for a ride, take in), לנשוך (bite, knap), עוקץ (acantha, barb, briar, mordant, point, pointed, sarcasm, spine, tip), עקיצה (bite, mordancy, sarcasm), דקירה (biting, insinuation, jab, prick, stab, stabbing, twinge), דרבן (goad, prick, spur), דרבון (goad, goading, spurring, urging), צנין (prick, thorn), נשיכה (bite, biting, snap). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fullánk (dart). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sengatan, menyengat, antup. (various references) | |
Italian | pungiglione (dart, prickle), pungere (bite, burn, pick, prick, stab, tingle), aculeo (aculeus, prickle, quill, spine). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 剣 (bayonet, blade, clock hand, sabre, sword), ぴよぴよ鳴く (becoming tense, biting, burning the tongue, hot, pungent, racy, smart, tingle, to cheep, to peep). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | けん (and, authority, bayonet, blade, bond, case, certificate, circle, clock hand, concurrently, coupon, economy, emperor, health, heaven, in addition, item, matter, prefecture, range, sabre, sphere, stick-to-itiveness, strength, sword, tendon, the right, ticket), ぴりぴり (becoming tense, burning the tongue, hot, smart, tingle). (various references) | |
Korean | 찌르기 (Prod, stab). (various references) | |
Manx | guinney (needle, pain, shoot, shoot of pain, wound, wounding), gahghey (irridiance, radiate, radiation), gah (dart, prong, suppository), fanneyder (drill, flayer, fleecer; basking shark, skinner), cur gah ayn, broddag (hormone, probe, punch, stylet). (various references) | |
Norwegian | stikke (jab, pick, stab). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | picar (bite, chop, goad, hack, hag, hash, jab, mince, pick, pique, point, prick, prickle, punch, spall, stab, stick, swot, tingle), ferrão (dart, prick, prickle). (various references) | |
Romanian | sãgeatã (arrow, lash, needle, Reed, shaft), ustura (bite, blister, burn, prick, prickle, smart), urzica (bite, nettle, taunt, tease), rãni (bring down, cut, gash, hurt, injure, offend, scathe, scotch, stab, wound, wrong), pişcãturã (nip, tweak), pişca (bite, nip, pinch, tweak), muşca (bite, champ, nip), mânca (bite, browse, consume, dine off, dine on, eat, finish, gnaw, grub, have, Lodge, meal, take, torment), durere ascuţitã, durea (ache, afflict, ail, be painful, distress, grieve, hurt, pain, rankle, regret, shoot, smart), bold (pin), ac (goad, needle, pinnacle, spindle, spur, style, switch), înţepãturã (jeer, jest, parting shot, prick, shaft, twinge), înţepa (bite, prick, prickle, puncture, stick), împunge (butt, jab, pink, pique, prick, prod, stitch, thrust). (various references) | |
Russian | уязвлять (wound), укус (nip), укол (injection, jab, prick, puncture, rapier thrust), ужаление, ужалить, кусать (bite, bitten, nip), колкость (dig, gibe, mordacity, nip, poignancy, sharpness, zinger), ожог (burn, flash burn, flash-burn, scald, scorch, sunburn), жало (dart, stinger), жалить жало, жалить (bite, stung), причинять острую боль, испытывать острую боль. (various references) | |
Scottish | stang (a ditch), sgob (pluck, snatch), teum (a bite, a sudden snatch at a thing : tha teum, snatch suddenly at a thing, wound), guin (a wound, pierce), gath (a dart, dart). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ujesti (bite), ujed (bite), ubosti (prick, stab, thrust in), ubod (jab, lunge, prick, stab, thrust), peći (bake, broil, roast), ožeći (burn), ožariti (burn, nettle), žigati (pierce), žaoka (piercer, prick, stinger), štrecati (pain). (various references) | |
Spanish | aguijón (goad, prickle, prod, stinger), picar (bite, chop, cut up, dive, goad, grind, harass, hash, itch, jab, key in, lip, mince, needle, nibble, nip, pick, ping, pink, pique, pit, pound, prick, prickle, prod, punch, smart, stab, stick), picadura (bite, Peck, pit, pock, prick, shag). (various references) | |
Swedish | gadd (prickle), sticka (clear off, clear out, dig, hook it, jab, knit, knitting needle, knitting-needle, Lam, light out, match, pick, prick, prickle, prod, scoot, scram, spill, splinter, split, stab, stick, take french leave, thrust, tingle, twinge, vamoose, welsh), styng (pang, stitch), sting (kick, prick, punch, twinge, zing), bett (bit, bite, edge, teeth). (various references) | |
Turkish | sızlamak (ache, bite, smart, tingle), sızı (ache, discomfort, hurt, pain, pang, prick, throe), sızlatmak (gripe, wring), sokma yarası, sokmak (bite, dig into, drag, drive, engraft, enter, immerse, implicate, ingraft, inject, insert, instil, instill, involve, land, let in, pitchfork, poke, put, put in, ram, send, sink into, slide in, spatchcock, stick, strike, take into, thrust, tuck, tuck in, work up), acı (ache, acidulous, acrid, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grief, grievous, harsh, heartbreak, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, suffering, tragic, trenchant, vitriolic, worry), ızdırap (affliction, agony, anguish, distress, hurt, misery, pain, suffering, torture), iğne (brooch, injection, jab, needle, pin, pintle, pointer, prick, shot, spicule, spine, stinger), ısırmak (bite, bite off, champ, nibble, nip, savage, snap), batma (burst up, decline, dip, failure, ingrowth, set, sinking, submersion), acı olmak, acı söz (scorcher), acımak (ache, be sorry for, bite, commiserate, deplore, feel for smb., feel pity for, feel sorry for, have compassion, have mercy, hurt, pity, pity smb., relent, rue, smart, sympathize), acıtmak (bite, cause pain, gnaw, hurt, pain, wring), şiddet (acuteness, edge, fierceness, force, forcefulness, harshness, heaviness, impetuosity, impetus, intenseness, intension, intensity, keenness, lustiness, rigor, rigour, rough stuff, severity, sharpness, smartness, stringency, tempest, vehemence, violence, virulence), azap (ache, gaff, pain, torment, torture), acı çekmek (be in pain, be pinched, lament, suffer), canını yakmak (hurt, pain, rend the heart, scarify), ısırgan otu tüyü (stimulus), içine oturmak, zehir dişi (poison-fang), incitmek (aggrieve, cut, cut up, gall, harm, hurt, hurt deeply, injure, mortify, offend, pique, scarify, scathe, scotch, strain, touch, wound), kışkırtmak (agitate, antagonize, defy, egg, egg on, excite, fan the flame, ferment, foment, ginger, ginger up, goad, goad on, hound, hound on, incite, inflame, instigate, jockey into, lash, prod, provoke, rouse, set on, solicit, stir up, tempt, warm up, whip up), kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, touch, vanquish), kazıklamak (bunco, cheat, chisel, clip, do smb. brown, fleece, fob, fob smb. off, gouge, have smb. on, jew, Nick, overcharge, put it on, put it over on, rook, rush, sell, skin, soak, stuff smb., take for a ride), koymak (closure, dot smb. one, lay, lay down, lay on, Park, place, plant, position, put, put down, rest, set, set down, stick), tahrik etmek (agitate, egg, egg on, excite, fan, ferment, hound, hound on, incite, instigate, irritate, jockey into, move, provoke, rough the wrong way, rouse, seduce, solicit, stimulate, stir up, turn on, whet, whip up, wind up, work up), yakma (auto da fe, cauterization, cautery, firing, incineration, lighting), yanmak (be hot, broil, burn, burn out, fire, fuse, fuze, glow, go on, inflame, kindle, light, light up, scorch, smart, swelter, take, tan, toast), güç (ability, arduous, arm, baffling, capability, capacity, clout, clutch, clutches, command, control, difficult, dominance, energy, force, forcefulness, hard, intensity, iron, might, pep, pith, potency, potential, power, punch, rod, sinew, spirit, stamina, steam, strength, stuffing, sword, tone, tricksy, vigor, vigour, vim, vis, vitality, zing). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зakmak (chirp, sting or bite). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ущипливість (acridity, causticity, gibe, pungency), укус (bite, nip, piercer, snack), жало (dart, stinger), жалити (tang), пекти (bake). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự sắc sảo (astuteness, mustard, sagacity, salt, stung), sự day dứt (gnawing, stung, torment), sự đau quặn (stung), ngòi (stinger, stung). (various references) | |
Welsh | pigo (peck, pick, prick), pigiad (prick), colynnu, colyn (pivot), brathu (bite, stab, wound), brath (bite, stab, wound). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | tab. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | oistros. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aculei, acumen, fodio, icamian, ictu, ictum, ictus, mordeant, mordeat, mordebit, mordebunt, mordens, mordent, mordetis, morsu, morsus, spicula, spiculum, treicientes. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | sticel. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | pique. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 56 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | To de kentron tou qanatou h amartia h de dunamiV thV amartiaV o nomoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Stimulus autem mortis peccatum est virtus vero peccati lex |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But the pricke of deth is synne; and the vertu of synne is the lawe. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | The stynge of deeth is synne: and the strength of synne is the lawe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 56 |
| Cebuano | Ang ikot sa kamatayon mao ang sala, ug ang gahum sa sala mao ang kasugoan. |
