stuff

Noun
  1. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object (synset 114604877)
    "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
    is a type of: substance - the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists
    subtypes:
    • 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
  2. Miscellaneous unspecified objects (synset 104352366)
    "the trunk was full of stuff"
    is a type of: object, physical object - a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow
    subtypes:
  3. Informal terms for personal possessions (synset 113272053)
    "did you take all your clobber?"
    is a type of: personal estate, personal property, personalty, private property - movable property (as distinguished from real estate)
    same as: clobber
  4. Senseless talk (synset 106622262)
    "don't give me that stuff"
    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
    same as: hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense
  5. Unspecified qualities required to do or be something (synset 105217802)
    "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
    is a type of: quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
  6. Information in some unspecified form (synset 107233664)
    "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
    is a type of: info, information - a message received and understood
  7. A critically important or characteristic component (synset 105930937)
    "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
    is a type of: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum - the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
Verb
  1. Cram into a cavity (synset 201527659)
    "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
    is a type of: cram - put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled
    subtypes:
  2. Press or force (synset 202098847)
    "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
    is a type of: force, push - move with force
    same as: shove, squeeze, thrust
  3. Obstruct (synset 201481963)
    "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
    is a type of: back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul - become or cause to become obstructed
    same as: block, choke up, lug
  4. Overeat or eat immodestly;
    Make a pig of oneself (synset 201195632)
    "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
    is a type of: eat - eat a meal; take a meal
    same as: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
  5. Treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting (synset 200498636)
    "stuff a bearskin"
    entail: tan - treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather
    is a type of: impregnate, saturate - infuse or fill completely
  6. Fill tightly with a material (synset 200321949)
    "stuff a pillow with feathers"
    is a type of: fill, fill up, make full - make full, also in a metaphorical sense
    subtypes: cork - stuff with cork
    verb group: farce, stuff - fill with a stuffing while cooking
  7. Fill with a stuffing while cooking (synset 200321482)
    "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
    referred to in: cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
    is a type of: fill, fill up, make full - make full, also in a metaphorical sense
    same as: farce
    verb group: stuff - fill tightly with a material

Other Searches