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STY
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Irregular inflected form: stied
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A pen for swine
Synonyms:
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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