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Staph
- noun - spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections
Step-
- - A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc.
Steps
- noun - a flight of stairs or a flight of steps
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface; "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window"
- a musical interval of two semitones
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance; "he taught them the waltz step"
- a short distance; "it's only a step to the drugstore"
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal; "the situation called for strong measures"; "the police took steps to reduce crime"
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- furnish with steps; "The architect wants to step the terrace"
- measure (distances) by pacing; "step off ten yards"
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation; "She stepped into a life of luxury"; "he won't step into his father's footsteps"
- move with one's feet in a s
Stipe
- noun - supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap
Stope
- - A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
Stops
- noun -
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes;
- a brief stay in the course of a journey;
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it;
- a gambling card game
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;
- a restraint that checks the motion of something;
- a spot where something halts or pauses;
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
- halts
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
- the act of stopping something;
- the event of something ending;
- the state of inactivity following an interruption;
Stupa
- noun - a dome-shaped shrine erected by Buddhists
Stupe
- noun - a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!"
- hot compress
Sumps
- noun - a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- a well or other hole in which water has collected
- an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine