stud

Definitions

General English

  • noun a

    small

    round

    piece of metal

    jewellery

    worn in the ear,

    nose

    or

    elsewhere

    on the body
  • noun a

    young

    man who is

    extremely

    sexually

    attractive

  • noun a nail

    with

    a head

    that

    stands out

    above

    a

    surface

Agriculture

  • noun a

    male

    horse kept for

    breeding

Cars & Driving

  • noun a threaded fastener without a head; similar to a

    grub screw

    , but with an unthreaded portion roughly in the middle; typically used for nut and stud

    assembly

    of

    alloy

    parts, e.g. to attach manifolds to alloy cylinder heads or to secure the

    cylinder head

    to the

    cylinder block

    . The stud is screwed into a threaded hole until the run-out threads in the metal of the stud jam in the first thread in the hole; studs should never

    reach

    the

    bottom

    of the hole.
  • noun a bolt projecting from a plate, like a

    wheel stud

  • noun a projecting pin or peg attached to the

    tread

    of a snow

    tyre

    to improve

    traction

Construction

  • A vertical member of appropriate size (2" x 4" to 4" x 10") (or 50 mm x 100 mm to 100 mm x 250 mm) and spacing (16" to 30") (or 400 mm to 750 mm) to support

    sheathing

    or

    concrete

    forms.
  • A

    framing

    member, usually cut to a precise length at the mill, designed to be used in framing building walls with little or no trimming before it is set in place. Studs are most often 2" x 4", but 2" x 3", 2" x 6" and other sizes are also included in the stud

    category

    . Studs may be of wood, steel, or composite

    material

    .
  • A bolt having one end firmly anchored. See also

    shear stud

    .

Food

  • verb to insert small items such as

    cloves

    , sprigs of herbs or slivers of

    garlic

    at intervals over the surface of a food item such as an onion or a joint of meat

Real Estate

  • noun a small metal knob,

    rivet

    or nail head that protrudes slightly from a

    surface

    , especially for decorative effect
  • noun a vertical length of timber to which material such as

    lath

    or

    plasterboard

    is attached in constructing a

    wall

Slang

  • noun a sexually active, powerful, potent male. Only slang when applied to men as opposed to (real) animals, the term often indicates a degree of approval or admiration, even if grudgingly. In black American

    street

    parlance the word was sometimes used in the 1960s and 1970s simply to mean a ‘guy’. There seems to be no female equivalent that stresses sexual power rather than degeneracy.

Origin & History of “stud”

Stud ‘place

where

horses are bred’ and stud ‘nail’ (OE) are

different

words. The

former

(

like

stable and stall) denotes etymologically a place where animals ‘stand’, in

this

case for breeding purposes. It comes

from

a prehistoric Germanic *stōtham, a derivative of the base *sta-, *stō- ‘stand’ (source

also

of

English

stand, and of steed (OE),

which

originally denoted a ‘male horse used for breeding’). The use of the word for a ‘man who is highly active and proficient sexually’ dates from the end of the 19th century. The ancestry of stud ‘nail’ is not altogether clear, although it appears to be related to German stützen ‘support’. It originally meant ‘post, support’, a sense preserved in the building term stud ‘upright post to which boards are fixed’, and ‘nail’ (presumed to

represent

the

same

word) did not emerge until the 15th century.
http://www.dictionarycentral.com/definition/stud.html