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STY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: stied   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pen for swine

Synonyms:

pigpen; pigsty; sty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

pen (an enclosure for confining livestock)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid

Synonyms:

eye infection; hordeolum; sty; stye

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

infection (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)

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