Noun | 1. | sting - a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles" Synonyms: stinging |
2. | sting - a mental pain or distress; "a pang of conscience" Synonyms: pang | |
3. | sting - a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin Synonyms: insect bite, bite | |
4. | sting - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, con | |
Verb | 1. | sting - cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face" |
2. | sting - deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday" | |
3. | sting - saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill" Synonyms: stick | |
4. | sting - cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin" | |
5. | sting - cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark stung her" |
STING - A parallel dialect of Scheme intended to serve as a
high-level operating system for symbolic programming
languages. First-class threads and processors and
customisable scheduling policies. E-mail: ["A Customizable Substrate for Concurrent Languages", S. Jagannathan et al, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 1992]. |