STUD (studded, studding)

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Irregular inflected forms: studded    , studding   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does stud mean? 

• STUD (noun)
  The noun STUD has 5 senses:

1. a man who is virile and sexually active

2. ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)

3. an upright in house framing

4. adult male horse kept for breeding

5. poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt

  Familiarity information: STUD used as a noun is common.

• STUD (verb)
  The verb STUD has 2 senses:

1. scatter or intersperse like dots or studs

2. provide with or construct with studs

  Familiarity information: STUD used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who is virile and sexually active

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

he-man; macho-man; stud

Hypernyms ("stud" is a kind of...):

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

rivet; stud

Hypernyms ("stud" is a kind of...):

decoration; ornament; ornamentation (something used to beautify)

Derivation:

stud (scatter or intersperse like dots or studs)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An upright in house framing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

scantling; stud

Hypernyms ("stud" is a kind of...):

upright; vertical (a vertical structural member as a post or stake)

Holonyms ("stud" is a part of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

Derivation:

stud (provide with or construct with studs)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Adult male horse kept for breeding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

stud; studhorse

Hypernyms ("stud" is a kind of...):

entire; stallion (uncastrated adult male horse)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

stud; stud poker

Hypernyms ("stud" is a kind of...):

poker; poker game (any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand)

Domain member category:

hole card ((poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown)

• STUD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they stud    ... he / she / it studs   
Past simple: studded   
Past participle: studded   
-ing form: studding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scatter or intersperse like dots or studs

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

constellate; dot; stud

Context example:

Hills constellated with lights

Hypernyms (to "stud" is one way to...):

continue; cover; extend (span an interval of distance, space or time)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

stud (ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide with or construct with studs

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

stud the wall

Hypernyms (to "stud" is one way to...):

add (make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of)

Domain category:

carpentry; woodwork; woodworking (the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

stud (an upright in house framing)

 Context examples 

The transiting moon will also be in Pisces, making this day a star-studded standout.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The table had in the meanwhile been cleared, and was now studded with bottles and glasses, while long clay pipes and tobacco-boxes were handed round.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The region is studded with flat-topped mountains.

(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)

When we had crossed the second ridge we saw before us an irregular, palm-studded plain, and then the line of high red cliffs which I have seen in the picture.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The walls of bare unpainted planks were studded here and there with great wooden pins, placed at irregular intervals and heights, from which hung over-tunics, wallets, whips, bridles, and saddles.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The streets were lined with beautiful houses all built of green marble and studded everywhere with sparkling emeralds.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The endoplasmic reticulum is a network of tubular membranes within the cytoplasm of the cell, occurring either with a smooth surface (smooth endoplasmic reticulum) or studded with ribosomes (rough endoplasmic reticulum), involved in the transport of materials.

(Endoplasmic Reticulum, NCI Thesaurus)

Then he took out my traps, and placed them on the ground beside me as I stood close to a great door, old and studded with large iron nails, and set in a projecting doorway of massive stone.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was impossible to mistake the scene of the young lady’s adventure, for the road runs between the open heath on one side and an old yew hedge upon the other, surrounding a park which is studded with magnificent trees.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of the solitary rocks and promontories by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape—Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,—that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)