STAB
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stab¹
- /stæb/
Rhymes with -æb
Where it comes from
First attested in Scottish English (compare Scots stob, stobbe, stabb (“a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon”)), from Middle English stabbe (“a stab”), probably a variant of Middle English stob, stub, stubbe (“pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump”), from Old Norse stobbi, stubbi, cognate with Old English stybb. Cognate with Middle Dutch stobbe.
Supposed by some to derive from Scottish Gaelic stob (“to prick, to prod, to push, to thrust”); supposed by others to be from a Scots word.
noun stabs
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object to hurt or kill someone. A knife was flashing in his hand, and just as he was about to take a stab at me, the smith grabbed his arm from behind.
- A wound made by stabbing. I opened the man's linen robe, and there over his heart was a dagger-wound, and beneath the woman's fair breast was a like cruel stab, through which her life had ebbed away.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings. “I bet you two have really big plans. And might I say, that is just fab,” he said of Lynn's dress. “I'm glad someone noticed,” she replied, seeming to take a stab at me.
- An attempt. I'll give this thankless task a stab.
- Criticism.
- A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition. a horn stab
- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
verb stabs · stabbing · stabbed
- To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger. If you stab him in the heart he won't live long enough to retaliate.
- To thrust in a stabbing motion. to stab a dagger into a person
- To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at). He stabbed at my face with the twig but luckily kept missing my eyes.
- To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at). The snow from the blizzard was stabbing at my face as I skied down the mountain.
- To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander. to stab a person's reputation
- To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
- To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection. [O]ne of the derrickman's jobs is to "stab" the pipe.
Similar: chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin, gore, gride, jab, job, juke, kebab
stab²
- /stæb/
Rhymes with -æb
Where it comes from
Clipping of stabilizer or stabiliser.
noun stabs
- The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft. If the pilots used electric pitch trim, it would only pause MCAS for 5s; to deactivate it you have to switch off the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches.
stab³
- /stæb/
Rhymes with -æb
adjective
- Clipping of established.established Do you know whether any country offices pay their men by the thousand, or whether they are on stab wages? — I do not know. Some are paid stab wages, but I do not know whether there is much piece-work.
noun
- Clipping of establishment.establishment […] there were 286 overseers and 210 readers occupied in the 501 offices; 2,691 compositors were paid on the stab […]
STAB⁴
Where it comes from
Acronym of same-type attack bonus.
noun
- A 50% damage boost applied when a Pokémon uses a move with the same type as itself (for example, an Electric-type Pokémon using an Electric-type move).
