Significat (Anglès)
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- Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
- Inflexible; rigid.
- Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
- (colloquial) Harsh, severe.
- Painful or more rigid than usual as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
- Potent.
- (informal) Dead, deceased.
- (slang) Erect.
- Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
- Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
- Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
- Keeping upright.
- Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
- Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
Sinònims
dead body
frozen to death
lie flat
be hard
standfast
stiff necked
stiff with cold
trenchant
become erect
form-only
of the body
not natural
boardy
numb with weariness
very stiff
be cold
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/stɪf/
Etimologia (Anglès)
In summary
From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós. See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore. The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.
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