Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word STY

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Definitions of STY

1. A pen or enclosure for swine.
2. To place in, or as if in, a sty
3. To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place
4. (figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
5. (obsolete) To ascend, rise up, climb. [9th]
6. (British, dialectal) A ladder.
7. (disease) An inflammation of the eyelid.

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Examples of Using STY in a Sentence

• His better known nomen, or birth name, is transliterated as "sty mry-n-ptḥ" or Sety Merenptah, meaning "Man of Set, beloved of Ptah".
• Great Gable and its lesser companion Green Gable stand at the head of Ennerdale, with the walkers' pass of Sty Head to their backs.
• "Sty" and "pigsty" are used as derogatory descriptions of dirty, messy areas, the word sty deriving from the Proto-Germanic *stiją meaning filthy hovel.
• Sty Head is also a walker's crossroads with other paths leading direct up Great Gable and following the outflow of Sprinkling Tarn up to Esk Hause.
• Redman is able to rescue him when the sty accidentally burns, but is then captured and presented to the sow in turn, where he is eaten alive by a now-possessed Lacey at the sow's command – a dark reversal on the lustful feelings Redman was harbouring towards Lacey.
• Another of Charousek's games, which Grandmaster Andrew Soltis described as "one of the prettiest ever", was the basis for the sty Last Round by Kester Svendsen, which Soltis called "perhaps the finest chess short story".
• Great Gable and its lesser companion Green Gable stand at the head of Ennerdale, with the walkers' pass of Sty Head to their backs.
• Sty Head Gill falls from the walkers' pass at Sty Head, the main pedestrian route from Borrowdale to Wasdale.
• The lands to the north and east of the gorge are moorland with relics of stone circles, for example the Stoke Flatt stone circle on Froggatt Edge and Bronze Age field system at Swine Sty.
• The northern boundaries are clear, beginning on the west with Wastwater and rising up beyond the head of Wasdale to Sty Head Pass, the popular walkers' route to Borrowdale.
• A pig toilet (sometimes called a "pig sty latrine") is a simple type of dry toilet consisting of an outhouse mounted over a pigsty, with a chute or hole connecting the two.
• Fidelio, All Hearts, Virgin and Shadow, Vesuvius (1983), Apollo Holding the String, Icarus, Bird and Fish and Mountains, Circus of Bread (Meccano) (1982), Terminal Street (1981), Circle of Bread, Narcissus Nuzzled by Goldfish, The Clown Chaos, Perseus and Andromeda, Come and Play (1983), Girl with Saucers, Art Ghetto (1987), Leonora, The Children in the Apple Tree (1985–86), Sleeping, Mortal Coil (1984), Study for Mildred's, Study for Gladiator, Nijinsky Dreams of Dolphins (1985), Miss Phoebe, Cover the Waterfront, The Playground, Venus Lux Amoris (1985), Invisible Bird (1981), The Clown Chaos, Sty Window (July 1978), Scarecrow, Nijinsky 4, Meniscus (caught napping) (1983), In Balance (1983), Mannequin, Balcony Balloon (1981), Pyjama Game (1981), Fragile (1979), Astound Me (Joke Version).
• A lightning ball had struck the fore topmast, passed into the pigsty, and through the galley into the waist, where it burst and overthrew seventeen men; eleven pigs in the sty before the mast were killed, belonging to the Captain; the silver buckles in the shoes of the gunner were melted into wire, and himself was knocked out of the roundhouse forward.
• Camote peelings (dahdah) or rejects (padiw) are fed to the pigs, which are herded under the living area or in a sty near the house.
• The eyesalve is described as a treatment for a "wen" (lump) in the eye ("most likely a sty: an infection of an eyelash follicle").

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