Stück
Meaning
- (invariable,neuter,strong) one, item, piece (of something countable; often untranslated in English)
- (invariable,neuter,strong) head (a single animal)
- (declinable,invariable,neuter,strong) piece (portion of something bigger or of an uncountable mass)
- (neuter,strong) Something of artistic or historic value; piece of art (of any kind, but less common of novels and films)
- (neuter,strong) a person, often female
- (neuter,obsolete,strong) piece (artillery gun)
Concepts
piece
bit
part
slice
fragment
lump
section
chip
component
bar
head
chunk
play
item
scrap
portion
clod
stick
wedge
cake
flake
fleck
hunk
strip
division
bite
slips
shtick
one
small piece
dot
only a little
only one
particle
point
speck
one sheet
one thin flat object
intercept
counter for large animals
bundle
clump
cluster
mass
cut
number of articles
area
country
district
region
territory
zone
small part
drama
notch
snippet
coin
thing
length
component part
plant component
abundance
amount
degree
dimension
measure
number
quantity
quantum
size
sum
volume
packed lunch
belt
ribbon
bauble
detail
details
clause
subsection
article
crumb
gobbet
element
graft
partition
fillet
lamina
Frequency
Gender
Neuter
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃtʏk/
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German stücke, from Old High German stucki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją. Cognate with Hunsrik Stick, Dutch stuk, Luxembourgish Stéck, Yiddish שטיק (shtik), dialectal English steck (“piece”). Doublet of Stuck.
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