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Stibine
- - Antimony hydride, or hydrogen antimonide, a colorless gas produced by the action of nascent hydrogen on antimony. It has a characteristic odor and burns with a characteristic greenish flame. Formerly called also antimoniureted hydrogen.
Stickle
- verb - dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)
Stipple
- verb - apply (paint) in small dots or strokes
- engrave by means of dots and flicks
- make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink
- produce a mottled effect; "The sunlight stippled the trees"
Stipule
- noun - a small leafy outgrowth at the base of a leaf or its stalk; usually occurring in pairs and soon shed
Stomate
- noun - a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass
Stoolie
- noun - someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
Stopple
- noun - blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
- close or secure with or as if with a stopper; "She stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers"
Storage
- noun - (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk
- a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks"
- an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
- depositing in a warehouse; "they decided to reposition their furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn"; "my car is in storage"; "publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing"
- the act of storing something
- the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials
Stovine
- - A substance, C14H22O2NCl, the hydrochloride of an amino compound containing benzol, used, in solution with strychnine, as a local anaesthetic, esp. by injection into the sheath of the spinal cord, producing anaesthesia below the point of introduction. Called also amylocaine hydrochloride. Chemically it is the hydrochloride of the benzoyl ester of 1-(dimethylaminomethyl)-1-methyl propanol.
Stowage
- noun - a room in which things are stored
- the act of packing or storing away
- the charge for stowing goods