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Definition: Stuff |
StuffNoun1. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread". 2. Miscellaneous unspecified artifacts; "the trunk was full of stuff". 3. Informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?". 4. Senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff". 5. Unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine". 6. Information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book". 7. A critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative". Verb1. Fill completely; "The child stuffed his pockets with candy". 2. Press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand". 3. Eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey". 4. Obstruct, as of a passage; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked". 5. Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself. 6. Treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin". 7. Fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stuff" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | The aqueous suspension of papermaking pulp and other raw materials during the period between the slushing and the formation of a web or a sheet. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Verb. Source: Comes directly from the verb to stuff. Definition: A defensive play in which the blocker blocks a hit ball back into the face of the hitter. Context: It is used when players are talking about a game . Social Source: Highsch. Volleyball, specifically Wilson H.S. 2000-01 varsity team. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Verb. Source: To cause to enter or fill forcefully; to fill to satiety. Definition: To rob. Context: Used in general conversation . Social Source: Illegitimate Businessmen of Harlem NY. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
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Synonyms: StuffSynonyms: clobber (n), hooey (n), material (n), poppycock (n), stuff and nonsense (n), sundries (n), sundry (n), whatchamacallit (n), whatsis (n), binge (v), block (v), choke up (v), cram (v), englut (v), engorge (v), fill (v), fill up (v), glut (v), gorge (v), gormandise (v), gormandize (v), gourmandize (v), ingurgitate (v), jam (v), lug (v), overeat (v), overgorge (v), overindulge (v), pig out (v), satiate (v), scarf out (v), shove (v), squeeze (v), thrust (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: nibble (v), unstuff (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absurdity | Jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish; (no meaning); exaggeration; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion. |
Expansion | Render larger; (large; ); expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten. |
Gluttony | Verb: gormandize, gorge; overgorge, overeat oneself; engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff; guttle, guzzle; bolt, devour, gobble up; gulp; (swallow food); raven, eat out of house and home. |
Lining | Verb: line, stuff, incrust, wad, pad, fill. |
MATERIALITY | Matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum; frame. |
Materials | Noun: material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple; adobe, brown stone; chinking; clapboard; daubing; puncheon; shake; shingle, bricks and mortar; metal; stone; clay, brick crockery; compo, composition; concrete; reinforced concrete, cement; wood, ore, timber. |
Substantiality | Noun: substantiality, hypostasis; person, being, thing, object, article, item; something, a being, an existence; creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum; matter; corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part. |
Texture | Substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma;substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma; constitution, staple, organism. |
Unimportance | Trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras, frippery; " leather or prunello "; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse; (inutility); scum; (dirt). |
Unmeaningness | Nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity; vagueness; (unintelligibility). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | This isn't life, it's just stuff. And it's become more important to you than living (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) So, let's get the obvious stuff out of the way. (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) I've probably burned truck loads of your stuff before (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) Upstanding mayor stuff. (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters) Nebulae, quasars, pulsars, stuff like that (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) | |
Lyrics | The right stuff (You Got It (The Right Stuff); performing artist: New Kids On The Block) You're packin' up your stuff (Crazy; performing artist: Aerosmith) But my answer yeah to all that use me stuff (Use Me; performing artist: Bill Withers) There's too much stuff that's making her cry. (One Voice; performing artist: Billy Gilman) When you hear the stuff of records get a tasteful (Request Line; performing artist: Black Eyed Peas) | |
Clever | Quantum mechanics: the dreams stuff is made of. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hot Stuff (1971) It's Our Stuff (1969) Kid Stuff (1965) How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) Hot Stuff (1956) | |
Song Titles | Mr. Big Stuff (performing artist: Jean Knight) Break Stuff (performing artist: Limp Bizkit) You Got It (The Right Stuff) (performing artist: New Kids On The Block) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Hot Stuff from the GOES Project Hurricane Floyd in the Sargasso Sea. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Billy making a mess - boy that stuff takes good. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Pheww!!! This buoy launching stuff is hard work. Crewman takes a break during Gulf Stream eddy studies while proceeding to another mooring site. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | "a Literaty Oculist" / Stuff [pseud.] Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Lith. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | That's good stuff, Winston ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Readin' this war stuff sure keeps my mind off everything else!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | This was no time to be choosey about the brand of your beer, the stuff happens to be Japanese. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Making link sausages with the aid of machines which stuff ten feet per second, Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Manpower. Tractor driver. With the blood of the first Americans in his veins, this man, half Indian, has joined the production army and is helping to "give'em the stuff to fight with!" He is a tractor operator on a guayule rubber plantation in Salinas, Ca. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | "Position is everything in life", anyway its a lot in the life of John Reynolds better known as the "human fly". He is shown doing his stuff on the flag pole of the Times-Herald Bldg. Wash[ington] D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Electric stuff" by David Holtz Commentary: "Nature vs. man-made." | "Grungy stuff. 2" by Stephanie Brim Commentary: "Grungey texture photos that may come in handy. :)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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| Spit; joke; childish; childlike; foolish; frivolous; infantile; infantine; juvenile; kid stuff; naive; pedomorphic; petty; prekindergarten; puerile; silly; unsophisticated; young; youthful; immature. | Electricity; voltage; volts; power; AC; DC; current; electromagneticism; electron; galvanism; heat; hot stuff; ignition; juice; light; magneticism; neutron; positron; proton; radioactivity; service; spark; tension; utilities; energy; kilowatts. | ||
| Electricity; voltage; volts; power; AC; DC; current; electromagneticism; electron; galvanism; heat; hot stuff; ignition; juice; light; magneticism; neutron; positron; proton; radioactivity; service; spark; tension; utilities; energy; kilowatts. | Electricity; voltage; volts; power; AC; DC; current; electromagneticism; electron; galvanism; heat; hot stuff; ignition; juice; light; magneticism; neutron; positron; proton; radioactivity; service; spark; tension; utilities; energy; kilowatts. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Dear Lord, fill my mouth with lots of good stuff and tap me when I've said enough. |
Benjamin Franklin | Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of. |
| Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. | |
Jean Paul Richter | I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff. |
Robert Browning | I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on. |
William Shakespeare | Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. |
| We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. [The Tempest] | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They were warmly clad, but with such maternal art, that the thickness of the stuff detracted nothing from the coquetry of the fit. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They said you got stinking stuff to drink when you were in the infirmary |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | You got stuff to do. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I have also a small woodshed adjoining, made chiefly of the stuff which was left after building the house |
The Tempest | William Shakespeare | Prospero: We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It was on the first day we all set up our tents and helped the teachers unpack the vans with all the food and stuff. (references) | |
Business | For hauling dirty, bulky or heavy stuff, Belgians prefer using trailers. (references) | |
Economic History | Guyana | Industry: Types--gold and bauxite mining, rice milling, beverage, food stuff processing, apparel, footwear assembly. (references) |
Venezuela | The demand for animal feed is steady because Venezuela imports very little animal protein and domestic production is heavily dependent on imported feed stuff. (references) | |
Trade | Vietnam | There are four rates of VAT: (i.) zero percent for exported goods; (ii.) five percent for the provision of essential goods and services (e.g. clean water, food stuff, medicine); (iii.) standard rate of 10 percent for activities such as power generation, mineral products, postal, and transportation services; and (iv.) 20 percent for activities such as lottery and brokerage. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion. Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking 'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking. What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye -- dared not See better than their master. Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers. The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. Naramy Oof |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Art Linkletter | Oh, this is coming into my living room and this is the kind of stuff that we used to associate with guys with the coats going into the theaters and watching the porno pictures. |
Barbara Walters | Thank heaven. The producers, the associate producers, they're the ones who really are, I think, are the most important. I write, you know, my stuff and I'm very involved in the editing, and I'm very hands-on. But it would not happen without producers. |
Carol Burnett | Sure I have. I mean, I've done a lot of awful stuff on our own show. One time we had such a bad show that I apologized on the air to people watching it. |
Donald Rumsfeld | Oh my goodness. You should see my days. I haven't got time to read that stuff. I was there, I don't need to read it. |
Jay McGraw | You know I do, I think that law school is kind of the responsible choice. You know once you're a lawyer, you're always a lawyer, and so I thought now would be a good time, and it is useful stuff. I mean the things I've learned there I use even this week. |
Mark Geragos | I am here in the California system and I'll tell you, you don't see this kind of stuff happen if it's somebody else. You just don't. |
Marla Hanson | Terrifying. Yeah, it was the controlled atmosphere of the courtroom, but, you know, I had to listen to that kind of stuff. |
Martha Stewart | Well, Christmas is big, Valentine's is wonderfully big for flowers and chocolates, and for me it's big because I get to send all my men friends little greetings and little presents and stuff. |
Rush Limbaugh | I'm tired of being the only voice pointing this stuff out. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | Some new things, as we look frankly upon them, willing to comprehend their real character, have come to assume the aspect of things long believed in and familiar, stuff of our own convictions. |
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| "Stuff" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.82% of the time. "Stuff" is used about 6,496 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) | 95.82% | 6,224 | 1,570 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.72% | 177 | 23,322 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.38% | 90 | 34,744 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.03% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.03% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,496 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Kids Stuff, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "stuff": a fig for' stuff and nonsense ♦ a stuff able to stand wear and tear ♦ a stuff that wears well ♦ be hot stuff ♦ black stuff ♦ cheap stuff ♦ Clear stuff ♦ create from raw stuff ♦ detection of effluent aromatic dead stuff ♦ do ones stuff ♦ do one's stuff ♦ Doctor's stuff ♦ don't talk such stuff ♦ dye stuff ♦ explosive stuff ♦ Fine stuff ♦ food stuff ♦ Free stuff ♦ fresh green stuff ♦ Garden stuff ♦ Gauge stuff ♦ gob stuff ♦ green stuff ♦ hard stuff ♦ hot stuff ♦ Inch stuff ♦ inflammatory stuff ♦ Kitchen stuff ♦ know one's stuff ♦ pastoral stuff ♦ pretty Amazing New Stuff ♦ raw stuff ♦ real stuff ♦ rough stuff ♦ serving stuff ♦ silk stuff ♦ small stuff ♦ sob stuff ♦ split stuff ♦ stuff a ballot box ♦ stuff and nonsense ♦ stuff and nonsense! ♦ stuff away ♦ stuff chest ♦ stuff clothes into a bag ♦ stuff gown ♦ stuff him! ♦ stuff in ♦ stuff one's ears ♦ stuff one's face ♦ stuff one's head with smth. ♦ stuff one's pockets with ♦ stuff oneself ♦ stuff oneself with food ♦ stuff shot ♦ stuff skins ♦ stuff smb. ♦ stuff smb. with lies ♦ stuff the memory with ♦ stuff up ♦ stuff with straw ♦ the stuff ♦ Thick stuff ♦ washing stuff ♦ White stuff ♦ woolen stuff. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "stuff": stuff-after, stuff-must, stuff-over, stuff-sodium, stuff-stuff, stuff-there, stuff-until. | |
Ending with "stuff": brain-stuff, chaos-stuff, couldn't-give-a-stuff, dye-stuff, feeding-stuff, feed-stuff, food-stuff, green-stuff, half-stuff, hard-stuff, leeds-stuff, pattern-stuff, prize-stuff, rocky-stuff, ruff-stuff, stuff-stuff, sweet-stuff, trousseau-stuff. | |
| 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 |
free stuff | 17,032 | aim stuff | 316 |
stuff | 5,343 | free stuff kid | 306 |
stuff magazine | 4,999 | wedding stuff | 269 |
funny stuff | 3,667 | free stuff for teacher | 268 |
fun stuff | 3,450 | girl stuff | 256 |
how stuff work | 1,769 | canada free stuff | 254 |
free baby stuff | 1,468 | super blue stuff | 236 |
how stuff works | 1,266 | stuff envelope | 230 |
kid stuff | 1,005 | sims stuff | 216 |
cool stuff | 988 | tuff stuff | 210 |
baby stuff | 988 | good stuff | 206 |
hot stuff | 630 | extreme guy stuff | 206 |
weird stuff | 561 | 100 free stuff | 201 |
stuff mag | 481 | scary stuff | 185 |
spy stuff | 473 | stuff it | 172 |
totally free stuff | 399 | stupid stuff | 172 |
free stuff for canadian | 385 | pepsi stuff | 170 |
cute stuff | 341 | stuff stick | 168 |
free stuff for teen | 325 | gross stuff | 163 |
right stuff | 319 | n stick stuff | 163 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "stuff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | stof i leshtë, sende, rras (Bury, clap, clench, cram, crib, fling, huddle, jam, pop, ram, tamp, thrust, vice), plaçkë (belongings, chattel, clobber, cloth, loot, plunder, quarry, spoil, swag, things, trap), mbyll (bung, calk, caulk, close, close up, commit, confine, crib, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, lap, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, suffuse, turn off, wind up, wrap up), mbush me kima, mbush (cement, charge, clog, close, cover in, cram, crowd, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, gorge, Grout, heap, imbue, impregnate, infest, inject, inspire, line, load, make out, meet, pad, pervade, pour out, pump, stop up, Stow, suffuse, tap, write out), material (carnal, copy, fleshly, material, matter, physical, stock, worldly), lëndë (copy, course, material, matter, subject, substance, theme), gjëra (things), futem (affiliate, be propagated, break in, dive, drive into, enter, get into, go in, interfere, join, join in, launch, lend oneself to, penetrate, plough into, plunge, sink in, slide, start, worm), fut (accept, cram into, drive, drive in, embed, engrain, enter, establish, foot, hide, insert, intercalate, interpolate, introduce, launch, let in, mix in, move in, number, plunge, poke, pour into, put, put in the picture, put smb. wise to smth., set, speak, stick into, stock up, submerge, take on, thrust, tuck, usher in), fus (accept for, Bury, cram into, drive, embroil, enclose, engrain, enter, get in, inclose, interpolate, introduce, launch, mix in, pack, plunge, poke, pour into, press in, put, put in the picture, set, shove, speak, stick into, stock up, work in), balsamoj (embalm, mummify). (various references) | |
Arabic | سقط المتاع (junk, lumber, offal, raffle, rubbish, tat, trash, write off), أدوات (apparatus, material, paraphernalia, tools, vibes), أشياء (kit), أعمال في منسابات خاصة, أقحم (infix, inset, interject, interpolate, nuzzle, poke, squeeze, stab, stick, thrust, wedge, work in, wring), أمتعة (baggage, belongings, gear, kit, luggage, plunder, possessions), أكل بنهم (cram, slop, tuck, tuck in, wolf), إزدرد (bolt, gobble), إتخم (cloy, cram, glut, gorge, overfeed, sate, satiate, saturate, stoke, surfeit), إلتهم (bolt, consume, demolish, devour, eat, eat up, engorge, gobble, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingest, make a pig of oneself, munch, overeat, shovel, snap, swallow, swig, tuck, tuck in, wolf), إنحشى, ركام (bank, cumulus, drift, heap, jumble, mess, moraine, morass, mound, pile), سد (bar, barrage, block, bung, clog, close, close up, congest, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, fill, floodgate, foul, lock, mure, obturate, obturation, occlude, occlusion, pack, plug, seal, shut, stem, stop, stop up, tamp, wad, weir), ممتلكات شخصية (paraphernalia, personal belongings), سمن (batten, fatten, flesh, gain weight, plumb out, plump, portliness, surfeit, thicken), حشا (beef up, cake, cram, jam, load, pack, pad, poke, quilt, ram, tamp, tampon, wad), حشا بالقش, وضع (accentuate, affix, apply, bestow, bin, clap, conjuncture, dab, design, do, emplacement, estate, frame, install, job, lay, lay down, lay out, manner, outline, perch, place, placement, plant, posit, position, positioning, posture, put, put down, put up, rank, return, set, set back, situation, status, stick down, tuck, utter, writing), لقم (feed, load), نسيج صوفي (homespun, woollen, worsted), مادة الشىء أو جوهره, مادة خام (raw material), مخدرات (dope, junk), ملأ (cram, crowd, fill, fill in, fill out, stack, wind), ملاك (angel, cadre, landowner, personnel), المواد الخامة (raw materials). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | заразявам (communicate, contaminate, defile, infect, plague, poison), пломбирам (fill, seal, stop), пари (cash, chink, currency, dough, dross, dust, funds, kale, loot, money, needful, pelf, pile, pocket, purse, ready, rhino, scratch, shiners, smart, splosh, tin, vapor, vapour, wad, wampum), подвеждам (bring under, lead on, mislead, reduce, throw off), препарирам, пълня (bowl up, fill, load, prime, refill, stop, throng), пъхвам (dive, pop in, shoot), боклуци (junk, odds and ends), елементи (accidence, components, material), запушвам (bung, close, obstruct, obturate, occlude, plug, plug up, stop, stop up, stopper, stopple, wad, wall up), запълням, платно (calico, cloth, dodger, sail, screen), заложби (makings, potentialities), съвъкупявам се с жена, материал (material, matter, medium), материя (fabric, material, matter, substance, textile, wear), мушвам (pink, poke, pop in, run, slide), натъпквам (bulge, bung, compress, cram, crush, fill in, imbed, impact, jam, lumber, pack, pack in, pump in, ram, tamp), непотребни вещи, вещество (agent, material, matter, substance), вълнен плат (cloth), тъпча (cram, glut, jam, ply, ram, shovel, squeeze, stodge, tread), характер (character, complexion, constitution, disposition, fiber, fibre, grit, grittiness, individuality, kidney, make, make up, mentality, metal, mettle, mould, nature, pattern, spirit, temper, turn), сбирщина от предмети, уплътнителен материал (padding, wadding), заблуждавам (abuse, deceive, delude, disorient, disorientate, flim-flam, impose, misguide, mislead, mystify, outwit). (various references) | |
Chinese | 材料 (data, makings, material). (various references) | |
Czech | vycpat (pad, wad), vìc (affair, business, case, cause, concern, re, thing), tekutina (fluid, thing), pitomost (balls, boob, idiocy, stupidity), napìchovat (cram, cram in, jam), nadívat, nacpat (cram, crowd, jam, pack), materiál (makings, material, store), látka (cloth, fabric, material, matter, matting, substance, suiting), hadry (clobber, rags, tatters), drogy, cpát se (guzzle, stuff oneself, throng). (various references) | |
Danish | stof (matter, substance). (various references) | |
Dutch | spullen (things), dingen (things). (various references) | |
Esperanto | substanco (matter, substance), remburi (pad, upholster), farĉi, aĵoj (things). (various references) | |
Faeroese | stappa (pad, upholster), tilfar (cloth, data, material, matter, substance), evni (matter, subject, substance, theme, topic), bólstra (pad, upholster). (various references) | |
Farsi | پارچه (Cloth, Fabric, Lot, Piece, Textile), پرکردن (Brim, Cram, Frank, Full, Glut, Heap, Load, Stow, Stud, Suffuse, Thwack), مصالح , ماده (Abscess, Article, Clause, Material, Metal, Paragraph, Point, Provision, Res, Substance, Woman), چیز (Article, Nip, Object, Res, Thing), چپاندن (Cram, Jam, Squeeze, Thrust), چرند (Baloney, Bilk, Corny, Crap, Hokum, Inane, Jive, Ludicrous, Nonsensical, Rigmarole, Shenanigan, Silly, Trashy, Unmeaning, Windy), کالا (Article, Commodity, Lot, Merchandise, Object, Traffic), تپاندن , جنس (Brand, Breed, Commodity, Gender, Genus, Kind, Mettle, Stamp, Substance), انباشتن (Accumulate, Agglomerate, Assemble, Bulk, Cumulate, Garner, Hill, Hoard, Hoarding, Stack, Stash, Stow). (various references) | |
Finnish | sulppu (stock), sulloa (bundle, cram, pack), vaate (cloth, material), täyttää (carry out, execute, fill, fill in, fulfil, fulfill, stop, up), kangas (cloth, fabric, heath, material, moor), aines (element, material, matter), aine (composition, essay, material, matter, subject, substance). (various references) | |
French | affaires, trucs, substance, choses, bourrer. (various references) | |
German | stopfen (be filling, block, bolt down one's food, bundle, clog, constipate, Cork, cram, darn, darning, fill, jam, jam in, mend, mute, pack, plug, plug up, ram, stop, stop up, stopper, stuff oneself, to darn, wad), zeug (cloth, clothes, fixings, gear, linen, material, muck, nonsense, rubbish, things, trinket), stoff (cloth, dope, fabric, hooch, material, matter, pulp, subject, substance, textile, topic), füllen (brimmed, fill, fillies, fills, filly, foal, occupy, pad, to fill). (various references) | |
Greek | ύφασμα (Cheviot, cloth, fabric, material, percale, textile, web, weft), ύλη (copy, material, matter), γεμίζω (contend in, fill, fill up, fill with, load), βαλσαμώνω (embalm, embalm. soothe), πράμα (drug of abuse), παραγεμίζω (chock, clog, cram, engorge, fill to bursting, glut, overstuff, pad), πανί (cloth, fabric, material, sail), πολτοαιώρημα (stock), υλικό (material), άχρηστοσ (bootless, drossy, dud, has been, needless, ne'er do well, otiose, trashy, useless, waste, worthless), ανοησίεσ (balderdash, claptrap, fiddlesticks, hooey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, rubbish, twaddle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | למלא במלית, למלא (complete, fill, fill up, fulfill, pervade, satisfy), לפחלץ (stuff skins), לפטם (cram, fatten, plump, surfeit), לאבוס (fatten, feed), להלעיט (cram, fatten, force feed, gorge, overfeed, surfeit), להאביס (fatten), לדחוס (compress, condense, cram, crowd, jam, supercharge, tamp, wedge), חומר (compound, element, ingredient, material, matter, mortar, sermon, subject, substance), חפצים (chattels, goods), דברים (deuteronomy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | dolog (affair, business, business deal, case, chose, clinker, close call, crackerjack, dishonour, job, labor, labour, lash-up, ledger, matter, mite, number, object, quickie, quicky, shebang, shocker, startler, the cards were stacked against me, thing, work), anyag (clinker, filler, leach, material, matter, substance, substrata, substrate, substratum, theme). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengawet (preserve), kain (cloth, material, sarong, textile), gegares, enjal (cram), endal (cram, elastic, resilient, springy), bahan (data, datum, material, matter, object), alat (appliance, device, instrument, means, organ, tool, utensil, utility). (various references) | |
Italian | materiale (corporeal, data, equipment, material, materials, materiel, matter, physical). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 球威 , スケ番 (bar, energy, free-standing bar, grandstand play, grandstanding, leader of a female gang, road reflector, scoop, scope, scoping, scopophilia, score, scoreboard, scorebook, scorecard, scorer, scoring position, Scotch, Scotch egg, Scotch tape, Scotch terrier, Scotch tweed, Scotch whiskey, Scotland, Scotland Yard, scotophobin, Scott, shovel, Skopolamin, skunk, spade, squall, squawker, stability, stabilizer, staccato, stack, stacking permanent wave, stack-object, stack-pointer, stackware, stadium, stadium jumper, staff, stag film, stag party, stagflation, Stalinism, stamina, stamp, stamp collection, stance, stand, standard, standard number, standards, standby, standby passenger, stand-in, standing start, standing wave, standoff, standpoint, stand-up collar, Stanford, stanza, star, star guide, star king, star player, star sapphire, star system, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Watching, starch, stardom, stardust, staring lineup, starlet, starlight, Stars and Stripes, start, start dash, start line, starter, starting block, starting member, starting pitcher, static, statistics, statue, Sterling block, Sterling engine, stout, stub, studio, studless tire, study, stuffed egg, stun, stun gun, stunt car, stunt man, style, style file, stylebook, styling, stylish, stylist, stylus, stymie). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゅうい (peace, tranquility, worn-out clothes), スタッフ (staff). (various references) | |
Korean | 재료 (materiel). (various references) | |
Manx | stoo (material, substance), pronney (cram, eating greedily, fill, filling, press; overcrowding, ram home, stuffing, taxidermy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uffstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | substância (body, essence, gist, material, matter, metals, purport, substance), material (brutish, corporeal, data, gear, incarnate, material, materialistic, metals, physical, worldly), estofar (pad, quilt, upholster, wad). (various references) | |
Romanian | substanţã (color, colour, essence, gist, mass, material, matter, paregoric, substance), stofã (cloth, fabric, material, suiting, textile, texture, tissue), material (cloth, copy, corporeal, earthly, economic, fabric, financial, mass, material, matter, palpable, physical, real, sensual, substantial, tissue), îmbuiba (cloy, cram, gorge, surfeit, swill), îndesa (clap, cluster, cram, flock, jam, ram, stamp), îndopa (cram, fatten, gorge, guzzle, overfeed, pamper, surfeit), înfunda (clog, head, obstruct, pad, shove, stick), înghesui (accumulate, amass, bay, beat a path, corner, cram, crib, crowd, heap, jam, jostle, nip, pack, pile up, squeeze, stack), bãga (Bob, drive, immerse, impress, insert, interject, introduce, intrude, invest, involve, jab, land, Lodge, put in, stick, Stow, thrust, tuck), baliverne (balderdash, bumkum, fiddlesticks), bunuri (all, assets, belongings, effect, estate, good, goods, having, hereditament, holding), burduşi (lay in, pommel, sandbag, shrink, tan, warp), ţesãturã (contexture, darn, fabric, material, netting, textile, texture, tissue, web, weft), marfã (article, good, goods, material, merchandise, produce, seller, wares), vârî (Bob, creep, crib, dab, dig, dip, drive, duck, engraft in, immerse, impress, introduce, involve, jab, Lodge, pick, poke, pull up, put in, stab, stick, Stow, thrust, tuck), materie (domain, fabric, material, matter, sphere, subject, substance), materie brutã, matlasa (quilt), pãcãli (cheat, deceive, diddle, do, dupe, fool, gammon, get, gull, hoax, hocus, hornswoggle, kid, let in, lime, nobble, outflank, outsmart, outwit, sell, Spruce, trick, trump, twist), ticsi (choke, cram, crowd, jam, swarm), umple (choke, clog, comprise, contain, cram, crowd, farce, fill, fill up, flood, heap, impregnate, inflate, inform, intersperse, Lade, pack, replenish, stain, stock, stop, store, suffuse, supply), umple cu tocãturã, chestie (affair, business, thingamy). (various references) | |
Russian | шерстяная материя, вещество (anticoagulants, hallucinogen, injurant, material, matter, sternutator, substance), объедаться (engorge, gormandize, overeat, overfeed, surfeit), начинять, набить (fill, pack), набивать вещь, напихать (cram in), масса (army, array, bulk, congeries, crowd, handful, heap, heaps of, lashings, lot of, lots, lots of, lotsa, mass, mountain, multitude, passel, paste, ream, regiment, ruck, stock, the million, wealth of, weight, whale, wilderness), материал (material, matter, stock), засовывать, затыкать (bung, caulk, obturate, shut up, stem, stop, stop up, stopple, stoppling), жир (fat, grease, lard, shortener, shortening, tallow), дрянь (draff, gunk, nit, rotter, schlock, trash). (various references) | |
Scottish | stuth (material, matter), brìgh (acceptation, essence, matter, meaning, nourishment, pith, power, sap, substance). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stvari (belongings, things), tkanina (cloth, fabric, material, textile, web), puniti (fill, load, prime, quilt), preparirati (mount), otpaci (dross, litter, odds and ends, offal, refuse, sewage, trash), natrpati (bulk, cram, cram in, heap up, jam, lumber, squeeze), napuniti (bag, charge, fill, lade, replenish, tank up, top up), nakljukati (cram, fatten, pamper), nagruvati (cram, grind, squeeze), nadenuti (interlard), nabijati (bulge, impale, jam, scutch), materijal (material), ispuniti (carry out, cope, fill up, fulfil, fulfill, grout, implement, realize, replenish, stand by), građa (build, material, staple, structure, substance, wale). (various references) | |
Spanish | tela (bit, cloth, dry goods, fabric, Guinea, lump, material, piece, spare part, web), tapar con (blank off, blanket, board up), rellenar (fill, fill in, fill out, refill, replenish, top up, wad), pulpa para papel (stock), pulpa en suspensión (stock), pasta para papel (stock), pasta de papel (stock), meter sin orden, mechar (lard), materia (material, matter, subject matter), llenar (beset, complete, cover, crowd, encumber, equate, fill, fill in, fill out, fill up, load, make out, occupy, pack, take up), droga (cocaine, dope, drug, elixir), cosas (belongings, business, gear, tackle, things), atracarse (glut oneself, gorge, overeat), atacar (arraign, assail, assault, attack, bite, charge, come at, commit aggression, drive, engage, get at, go for, go in, gun, light into, pitch into, plough into, prey, raid, sail into, set about, set on, set upon, sick, slash, strike, tackle, tamp, tamp down, tamp in, walk in). (various references) | |
Swedish | tyg (agent, cloth, fabric, material, means, ordnance, textile, tool, wowen), stoff (fuel, material, matter, pabulum), material (data, material), fylla (booze, drunkenness, fill, fill in, fill up, heap, inspire, intoxicate, jag, jagg, jam, line, possess, saturate, stock, strike, supply, write), ämne (body, field, material, matter, question, study, subject, subject matter, substance, termination, theme, topic). (various references) | |
Thai | เนื้อแท้, เรื่องเหลวไหล, บรรจุ (hold), สิ่งของ (article), ยัดไส้, คำพูดหรือการกระทำ. (various references) | |
Turkish | sürmek (apply, banish, bedaub, cast out, coat, continue, daub, distribute, drive, drive out, endure, exile, expatriate, expel, hang over, herd, last, lay on, lead, ostracize, outlaw, persist, pitchfork, relegate, roll, rub, run, slip in, smear, splash, spread, steer, stock, stream, throw out, till, tool along, transport, wipe on), saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), şey (affair, article, chose, concern, doing, doings, doodad, doohickey, lark, matter, object, thing, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, well, whosit), doldurmak (charge, choke up, clog, complete, congest, cover in, crowd, fill, glut, infest, infuse, line, load, point up, ram, replenish, store, throng, top up, write out), eşya (appointments, article, belongings, bulk, commodity, furniture, gear, goods, property, thing, traps, ware), hammadde (basic materials, commodity, producer goods, production goods, raw, raw material, raw materials, staple, stock), hamur (clay, dough, leaven, paste), içini doldurmak, kâğıt hamuru (paper pulp, paper stock, papier mache, pulp, slush, wood pulp), kaçak içki (moonshine), kereste (lumber, timber, wood), öz (compact, compendious, content, core, cream, distillate, distillation, elixir, entity, epitome, essence, essential oil, extract, extraction, full, genuine, gist, goodness, guts, heartbeat, kernel, marrow, matter, meat, medulla, nucleus, own, pith, pith and marrow, pulp, quick, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, substance, substantiality, substratum, sum, whole), madde (article, clause, entry, item, material, matter, proviso, substance, thing), zırva (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blather, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, bunkum, eyewash, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, garbage, gassing, hooey, jabber wocky, nonsense, punk, raving, ravings, rot, rubbish, tommyrot, twaddle), tıka basa yemek (gorge, make a pig of oneself, stodge, tuck in), tıkıştırmak (cram, huddle, huddle together, shove, squeeze, tuck), tıkınmak (batten, bolt, cram, engorge, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingurgitate, put away, shift, stodge, stuff oneself, tuck in), tıkamak (block, block up, bung, bung up, choke, choke up, clog, congest, engorge, foul, foul up, glut, hold, jam, obliterate, obstruct, obturate, occlude, plug, plug up, seal off, Spike, spile, stop, stop up, stopple, tampon, wad), tıkmak (coop, cram, put, shove, tuck, tuck in, wedge), uyuşturucu (anesthetic, anodyne, drug, hop, junk, narcotic, opiate, somniferous, stupefacient), yünlü kumaş (woollen, woolly, wooly), kumaş (cloth, contexture, drape, fabric, material, materials, woof). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яuwaюamak (cram in), яepbeюdi, nalamak (complain, fill, forge, groan, moan), gamlaюdyrmak (pack), dykmak (jam in). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | утискати, фарширувати (farce), мікстура (mixture, potion), матеріал (material, matter, medium), майно (asset, aught, baggage, capital, estate, goods, holding, property, things, worth), заповнювати (bank, lard, occupy, pack, write in), предмет (article, body, chapter, object, subject, teaching), пломбувати (plug). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thứ (affair, calibre, order, secondary, sort, thing, thingamy, thingumajig, thingumbob, thingummy), nghề (career, craft, profession, trade), môn, gỗ lạt, chất liệu, chất (material, matter, quality, substance), cách làm ăn, đạn vải len rác rưởi. (various references) | |
Welsh | stwffio (thrust), stwff, deunydd (material), defnydd (material, use). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period |