stuff
Noun
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is a type of: substance - the real physical matter of which a person or thing consistssubtypes:
- ballast - any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
- bedding, bedding material, litter - material used to provide a bed for animals
- rind - the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating)
- recycling - used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products
- precursor - a substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction)
- atom, corpuscle, molecule, mote, particle, speck - (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- ammunition - any nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction
- floc, floccule - a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid
- hazmat - an abbreviation for `hazardous material' used on warning signs
- aggregate - material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster
- raw material, staple - material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
- sorbate - a material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption
- sorbent, sorbent material - a material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption
- diamagnet - a substance that exhibits diamagnetism
- mineral - solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition
- rock, stone - material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
- adhesive, adhesive agent, adhesive material - a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together
- sealing material - any substance used to seal joints or fill cracks in a porous surface
- animal material - material derived from animals
- fluff - any light downy material
- bimetal - material made by bonding together sheets of two different metals
- abradant, abrasive, abrasive material - a substance that abrades or wears down
- chemical, chemical substance - material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules
- composite material - strong lightweight material developed in the laboratory; fibers of more than one kind are bonded together chemically
- conductor - a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat
- dielectric, insulator, nonconductor - a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity
- contaminant, contamination - a substance that contaminates
- particulate, particulate matter - a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant)
- dust - free microscopic particles of solid material
- elastomer - any of various elastic materials that resemble rubber (resumes its original shape when a deforming force is removed)
- earth, ground - the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
- discharge, emission - a substance that is emitted or released
- detritus - loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks
- waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product - any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- fiber, fibre - a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
- fill, filling - any material that fills a space or container
- foam - a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture
- homogenate - material that has been homogenized (especially tissue that has been ground and mixed)
- humate - material that is high in humic acids
- impregnation - material with which something is impregnated
- paper - a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
- packing, packing material, wadding - any material used especially to protect something
- color, coloring material, colour, colouring material - any material used for its color
- plant material, plant substance - material derived from plants
- radioactive material - material that is radioactive
- thickener, thickening - any material used to thicken
- toner - a black or colored powder used in a printer to develop a xerographic image
- translucent substance, transparent substance - a material having the property of admitting light diffusely; a partly transparent material
- undercut - the material removed by a cut made underneath
- builder, detergent builder - a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action
- vernix, vernix caseosa - a white cheeselike protective material that covers the skin of a fetus
- wad - a small mass of soft material
same as: material -
is a type of: object, physical object - a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadowsubtypes:
- doodad, doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget - something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
- etcetera - additional unspecified odds and ends; more of the same
- sundries - miscellaneous objects too numerous or too small to be specified
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is a type of: personal estate, personal property, personalty, private property - movable property (as distinguished from real estate)same as: clobber
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domain usage: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)is a type of: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality - a message that seems to convey no meaning
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is a type of: quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
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is a type of: info, information - a message received and understood
Verb
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is a type of: cram - put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled
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is a type of: eat - eat a meal; take a mealsame as: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
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entail: tan - treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leatheris a type of: impregnate, saturate - infuse or fill completely
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subtypes: cork - stuff with cork
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referred to in: cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heatsame as: farceverb group: stuff - fill tightly with a material
Found on Word Lists
- Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
- Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
- Nouns denoting man-made objects
- Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
- Nouns denoting substances
- Specific
- Verbs of eating and drinking
- Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
- Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
- Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
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