st

alternative sst

1. Expressing a sudden desire for silence.

plural sts

1. alternativeAlternative form of st. and St.; abbreviation of street.
2. abbreviationAbbreviation of state.
3. abbreviationAbbreviation of stone; not capitalized or usually spaced.

   Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.

   1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary

4. abbreviationAbbreviation of store.
5. abbreviationcrochetbusinessAbbreviation of stitch.

   st – stitch

   [2011 August 23, Carmen Heffernan, “How to make colourful crocheted flowers”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2023

   3 more examples

   insert right-hand needle bet 2 sts just knitted

   1998, Kristin Nicholas, Knitting the New Classics, page 63

   Knit 1 row. Dec 1 st at each end of next row and at each end of every foll alt row until 2 sts rem.

   2009, Sally Muir, Joanna Osborne, Diana Miller, Pet Projects: The Animal Knits Bible, page 71

   Change to larger needles and knit 1 rnd in CC, inc 3 (4, 5) sts evenly[…]

   2011, Barb Brown, Knitting Knee-Highs: Sock Styles from Classic to Contemporary, page 55

plural STs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of short ton(s).
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of storyteller, especially in the context of running certain tabletop role-playing games.
3. abbreviationuncountableAbbreviation of steam.
4. abbreviationcountableeuphemisticinitialismuncountableInitialism of sanitary towel.
5. countableuncountablemedicineAn ST segment.
6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of short time.
7. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehuman sciencesInitialism of source text.

   [S]tudents in their first year believe that source text and target text should be identical in content, that the TT should be a reproduction of the ST in another language, and that the TT should read well and be understandable.

   2004, Christina Schäffner, edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, Translation in Undergraduate Degree Programmes, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 119

   Antonyms: TT

8. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of specialty training

1. computingAtari ST.
2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Star Trek.

   1 more example

   As references in various articles on my Web site will demonstrate, I do spend time reading publications promoting non-Christian viewpoints. But still ST is supposed to be entertaining. And I do know of many Christians who have long since stopped watching ST due to the unchristian values sometimes presented...

   1998, Reepicheep, “Good Bye Star Trek Voyager?”, in alt.christnet (Usenet)

3. abbreviationinitialismEgyptologyInitialism of Standard Theory.
4. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Central Sulawesi: a province of Indonesia.

present singular third person STs · participle present STing · participle past STed · past STed

1. To act as a game master (GM) in a tabletop role-playing game, especially any of the games produced by White Wolf.

plural SS · plural Sts · alternative S · alternative S. · alternative St.

1. abbreviationAbbreviation of Saint.

   At Rome, the papal basilicas of St Peter and St Paul both lay outside the city walls: at Canterbury, Augustine founded an extramural burial church, dedicated to Sts Peter and Paul together.

   2005, Julia M[ary] H[oward] Smith, “Rome and the Peoples of Europe”, in Europe after Rome: A New Cultural History 500–1000, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, section “Ideologies”, chapter section “Rome, ad 1027”, page 286

alternative S · alternative S. · alternative St.

1. abbreviationnonstandardAbbreviation of Saturday.