Stickball Stickball is a street game related to baseball, usually formed as a pick-up game, in large cities in the eastern United States. The equipment consists of a broom handle and a rubber ball, typically a spaldeen or pensie pinkie. The rules come from baseball and are modified to fit the situation, i.e.
	Stickleback The Gasterosteidae are a family of fishes including the sticklebacks. FishBase currently recognises 234.53 species in the family, grouped in 5 genera. However several of the species have a number of recognised subspecies, and the taxonomy of the family is thought to be in need of revision.
	Sticky bun Sticky buns are a dessert or breakfast pastry that generally consist of rolled pieces of leavening agent—sometimes containing ingredients like brown sugar and/or cinnamon—which are then compressed together to form a kind of flat loaf corresponding to the size of the baking pan.
	Stiff Upper Lip Stiff Upper Lip is a 2000 hard rock album by Australian band AC/DC. The album was recorded at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver and mastered at Sterling Sound in New York City. The three singles to be released from it were Stiff Upper Lip, "Safe In New York City", and "Satellite Blues".
	Stigmata Stigmata are bodily marks, sores, or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ. An individual bearing stigmata is referred to as a stigmatic. The causes of stigmata are well-recognized and documented by the Catholic Church but the subject of considerable debate outside of it.
	Stile A stile is a pair of Stairways or ladders that is accessible to pedestrians but generally incessible to animals. Stiles are often found in rural areas or along trails and allow access to a field or other area enclosed by a fence or wall. Unlike a gate, there is no chance of forgetting to close it, but they are difficult to use by disabled individuals.
	Stiletto A stiletto is a long, narrow-bladed dagger. This dagger is designed as a stabbing weapon, rather than for cutting, since its long narrow shape allows it to penetrate deeply in a point. The stiletto began to gain fame during the Renaissance when it was popular as a tool against heavily armored knights.
	Stiletto heel A stiletto heel is a long, thin Heel found on some boots and shoes for women. It is named after the stiletto dagger, the phrase being first recorded in the early 1950s. Stiletto heels may vary in length from only a few centimetres up to 15 cm, and are sometimes defined as having a diameter at the ground of less than 1 cm.
	Still The term 'still' is a contraction of the verb 'to distill'. A still is an apparatus used to distillation miscible or immiscible liquids by heating and then cooling. It has been used to produce perfume and medicine, Water for Injection for pharmaceutical use, generally to separate and purify different chemicals, and most famously, to produce distilled beverages containing alcohol.
	Still life A still life is a work of art depicting a collection of usually inanimate objects, typically natural -- -- or man-made domestic items --. Popular in Western art since the 17th century, still life paintings give the artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as Landscape art or portrait.
	Stilt Stilts are waders in the same bird family as the avocets. They are found in brackish or saline wetlands in warm or hot climates. They have extremely long legs, hence the group name, and long thin bills. Stilts typically feed on aquatic insects and other small creatures and nest on the ground surface in loose colonies.
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	Sting Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, Order of the British Empire, usually known by his stage name Sting, is an England musician from Newcastle upon Tyne. Prior to a distinguished solo career, he was the lead singer, principal composer, and bassist of the 1970s/1980s rock band The Police.
	STING STING is a free Web-based suite of programs for a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between protein sequence, structure, function, and stability. STING is freely accessible at or at any of its mirrors sites , , .
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	Stinging nettle The stinging nettle is a herbaceous flowering plant native to Europe, Asia, northern Africa, and North America, and is the best known member of the nettle genus Urtica. The taxonomy of stinging nettles in the genus Urtica has been confused, and older sources are likely to use a variety of systematic names for these plants.
	Stingray Dasyatidae is a family of batoidea, cartilage ocean fishes, related to skates and sharks. Dasyatids are common in tropical coastal waters throughout the world, and there are fresh water species in Asia , Africa, and Florida . Most dasyatids are neither threatened nor endangered.
	Stinkhorn Stinkhorns are a type of fungus which produce a foul-scented, rod-shaped mushroom. They belong to the order Phallales. Their method of reproduction is different than most mushrooms, which use the air to spread their spores. Stinkhorns instead produce a sticky spore mass on their tip which has an odor of carrion, dung, or other things that attract fly.
	Stint A stint is one of several very small waders in the genus Calidris, which in North America are known as peeps. Some of these birds are difficult to identify because of the similarity between species, and various breeding, non-breeding, juvenile and moulting plumages. The species usually considered as stints or peeps are:
	Stipule In botany, stipule refers to outgrowths borne on either side of the base of a leafstalk. A pair of stipules is considered part of the anatomy of the leaf of a typical flowering plant, although in many species the stipules are inconspicuous or entirely absent. Stipules are morphologically variable and might appear as glands, scales, Trichome, Spine, or laminar structures.
	Stir Stir is a St. Louis, Missouri musical group.
	Stirrup The stirrup is a ring with a flat bottom fixed on a leather strap, usually hung from each side of a horse tack to create a footrest for the rider on a riding animal, suspended by an adjustable strap from the saddle for use as a support for the foot of a rider of a horse when seated in the saddle and as an aid in mounting.
	STM STM can mean: * Master of Sacred Theology * Savings, taxation and imports in economics * Scanning tunneling microscope * Short-term memory * Socit de transport de Montral, the public transport provider in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. * Software transactional memory, a method of handling concurrency in multithreaded systems
	Stoat The stoat, also known as the short-tailed weasel, is a small mammal of the family Mustelidae.
	Stock exchange A stock exchange, share market or bourse is a corporation or mutual organization which provides facilities for stock brokers and trader s, to trade company stocks and other security . Stock exchanges also provide facilities for the issue and redemption of securities, as well as, other financial instruments and capital events including the payment of income and dividends.
	Stock market A stock market is a Market system for the trade of Corporation stock, and Derivative s of same; both of these are security listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.
	Stock Ticker Stock Ticker is a now out of print board game that was popular upon its release and is still played today. It was released by Copp-Clark Publishing, a venerable Canada publisher.
	Stockfish Stockfish is unsalted fish dried naturally by sun and wind on wooden racks called hjell, or in special drying houses. The Drying is the world's oldest known preservation method, and dried fish has a storage life of several years. The method is also cheap, the work can be done by the fisherman, and the resulting product is easily transported to its market.
	Stockholm Stockholm is the capital of Sweden, and consequently the site of its Government of Sweden and Parliament of Sweden as well as the residence of the Swedish head of state, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Stockholm has been Sweden's political and economic center since the 13th century and is currently the largest municipality of Sweden, with a population of 776,000.
	Stocking A stocking is a close-fitting, variously elastic clothing covering the foot and lower part of the leg, but usually not intended to conceal the leg. The popularity of stockings increases and decreases with fashion. It was formerly made of woven cloth but now of knitting wool, silk, cotton or nylon.
	Stockman In the Australian lexicon, a stockman is the name given to a person who looks after the livestock on a station. Trainee stockmen are known as "jackaroos". Stockmen traditionally rode horses for livestock maintenance and mustering, but motorised vehicles are increasingly used.
	Stockpile A stockpile is a pile or storage location for various material materials or commodities. The exact meaning is dependent on context.
	Stocks The stocks are a device used since medieval times for public humiliation, corporal punishment, and torture. The stocks are similar to the pillory and the pranger, as each consists of large, hinged, wooden boards; the difference, however, is that when a person is placed in the stocks, their feet are also locked in place, as well as their hands and head.
	Stoicism Stoicism is a school of philosophy the founding of which is associated with Zeno of Citium, which became the foremost popular philosophy among the educated elite in the Greco-Roman Empire, to the point where, in the words of Gilbert Murray, "nearly all the diadochi...professed themselves Stoics." It teaches that self-control, fortitude and detachment from distracting emotions, sometimes interpreted as an apathy to pleasure or pain, allows one to become a clear thinker, level-headed
	Stole The stole is a liturgy vestment of various Christianity religious denomination. It is an embroidered band of cloth, formerly usually of silk, about two and a half to three metres long and seven to ten centimetres wide, whose ends are usually broadened out.
	Stolon A stolon, commonly referred to as a runner, is an aerial shoot from a plant with the ability to produce adventitious roots and new offshoots of the same plant. The complex formed by a mother plant and all its offshoot connected by stolons are considered to form a single individual.
	Stoma In botany, a stoma is a tiny opening or pore, found mostly on the under-surface(epidermis) of a plant leaf, and used for gas exchange. The pore is formed by a pair of specialised cells known as guard cells which are responsible for regulating the size of the opening. Air containing carbon dioxide and oxygen enters the plant through these openings where it gets used in photosynthesis and Cellular respiration.
	Stomach In anatomy, the stomach is an organ in the gastrointestinal tract used to digestion food. In general, the stomach's primary function is not the absorption of nutrients from digested food; this task is usually performed by the intestine. In most animals, the main job of the stomach is to break down, or denaturation , large fat molecules into smaller ones, so that they can be absorbed into the intestines more easily.
	Stompers Stompers were first created in 1980 by Schaper Toys. These toys were battery-powered vehicles that ran on a single AA battery and featured all-wheel drive. They were driven by a single motor that turned both axles.
	Stone Stone may refer to: * Rock , a naturally occurring aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids or the word 'stone' may be used to indicate an individual piece of rock. * Masonry, the building of structures from stone * List of stone, types of stone used in building, sculpture and masonry work
	Stone Age The period encompasses the first widespread use of technology in human evolution and the spread of humanity from the savannas of East Africa to the rest of the world. It ends with the development of agriculture, the domestication of certain animals and the smelting of copper ore to produce metal.
	Stone Curlew The Stone Curlew, Burhinus oedicnemus is the northern representative of the Stone-curlews, waders in the family Burhinidae. They are medium-large waders with strong black and yellow black bills, large yellow eyes, which give them a "reptilian" appearance, and cryptic plumage.
	Stone Pine The Stone Pine is a species of pine native of southern Europe, primarily the Iberian Peninsula. This tree has been exploited for its edible pine nuts since prehistoric times. Currently, it is also a widespread horticultural tree, besides being cultivated for the seeds. The Stone Pine can exceed 25 m height, though is usually rather less tall, 12-20 m being more normal.
	Stone wall Stone walls are a kind of masonry construction which have been made by man for thousands of years. First they were constructed by farmers and primitive people by piling loose field stones in what is called a dry stone wall, then later with the use of mortar and plaster especially in the construction of city walls, castles, and other fortifications prior to and during the Middle Ages.
	Stonefish The stonefish, also known as the reef stonefish or dornorn, is a carnivorous Actinopterygii with venom spines that lives on the sea bed, camouflaged as a rock. It is the most widespread species of the stonefishes family, and is known to be found in the shallow tropical marine waters of the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean oceans, ranging from the Red Sea to the Queensland Great Barrier Reef.
	Stonehenge Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monument located near Amesbury in the England county of Wiltshire, about 8 miles north of Salisbury. Its geographical location is 51.179 North, 1.8265 West . It is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones and is one of the most famous prehistory sites in the world.
	Stonewall Jackson Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He is most famous for his audacious Valley Campaign of 1862 and as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee. He was shot accidentally by his own troops at Battle of Chancellorsville and died of complications from an amputated arm and pneumonia several days later.
	Stoneware Stoneware is a category of clay and a type of pottery distinguished primarily by its firing and maturation temperature. In essence, it is human-made rock.One widely recognised definition is from the Combined Nomenclature of the European Communities which states ""Stoneware, which, though dense, impermeable and hard enough to resist scratching by a steel point, differs from porcelain because it is more opaque, and normally only partially vitrified.
	Stony Tunguska The Stony Tunguska is a river in Siberia; it is a right tributary of the Yenisei and has a length of 1865 km. The name of the river comes from the fact that its significant stretches flow under pebble fields without open water. It is known for the Tunguska event. Category:Rivers of Russia
	Stop The word stop has several possible meanings in the English language, but most commonly means to cease moving. Additionally, stop can refer to: * Organ stop, one or more ranks of pipes used together to make a particular sound on a pipe organ; also the control used to select them * Stop consonant in linguistics
	Stopwatch A stopwatch is a timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed from a particular time when activated and when the piece is deactivated. The stopwatch is typically designed to start at the press of the top button and stop by pressing the button a second time to display the elapsed time.
	Storage ring A storage ring consists of a circular ring in which a particle beam or charged particles on a beamline from a particle accelerator can be kept circulating almost indefinitely. Storage of a particular Elementary particle is based on the mass of the particle being stored.
	Storeria Storeria is a genus of colubrid snakes. The genus consists of four species, three of which are known as brown snakes, and the other is known as the redbelly snake. They are found primarily in the United States and Mexico but range as far north as southern Canada, and as far south as Central America.
	Stork Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long stout bills, belonging to the family Ciconiidae. They occur in most of the warmer regions of the world and tend to live in drier habitats than the related herons, spoonbills and ibises; they also lack the powder down that those groups use to clean off fish slime.
	Storm A storm is any disturbed state of a planet's Celestial body atmosphere, especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather. It may be marked by strong wind, thunder and lightning, heavy Precipitation, such as ice, or wind transporting some substance through the Earth's atmosphere.
	Storm cellar Storm cellars are underground structures that are either located below buildings, or are built underground near houses or other such buildings. They are reinforced structures into which residents can go for protection from a strong wind storm. They are common in areas that often have tornados and hurricanes.
	Stout Stout and Porter are dark beers made using roasted malts or roast barley. There are a number of variations including Baltic porter, sweet stout and Imperial stout.
	Stove A stove is a heat-producing device. The word typically describes an appliance used either for generating warmth or for cooking. In British English, however, the term cooker is normally used for the cooking appliance, and stove for a wood- or coal-burning room-heating appliance.
	Strabismus Strabismus, also known as "heterotropia", "squint", "crossed eye", "wandering eye", or "wall eyed", is a disorder in which the eyes do not point in the same direction. It typically involves a lack of coordination between the Muscles of orbits which prevents bringing the gaze of each eye to the same point in space, preventing proper binocular vision, which may adversely affect depth perception.
	Straddle In finance, a straddle is an investment strategy involving the purchase or sale of particular option derivative that allows the holder to profit based on the magnitude of price movement in the underlying security, regardless of the direction of price movement.
	Stradivarius Stradivari is the surname of one of the most famous violin-making families in history. Antonio Stradivari was born in Italy in 1644. Antonio Stradivari may have been a disciple of Nicolo Amati, one of Amati family of violin-makers of Cremona. Antonio Stradivari set up business for himself in 1680, though his early violins are generally considered inferior to those made between 1698 and 1720.
	Straight razor Straight razor is the name given to reusable knife blade used for shaving hair. They are also called cutthroat razors, particularly in the United Kingdom and Australia. Although straight razors were once the principal method of manual shaving, they have been largely overshadowed by double-edge or cheap cartridge razors that use disposable blades, and by electric razors of various types.
	Straightener Straightener is a three piece Japanese Rock music band, formed in 1998 in Tokyo, Japan, and have released 7 full-length albums to date, the most recent being 2006's Dear Deadman. They are good friends with fellow J-rock bands Asian Kung-Fu Generation and Ellegarden; as such, they make an appearance at Asian Kung-Fu Generation's annual Nano-Mugen Music Festival alongside the two bands.
	Strain gauge A strain gauge is a device used to measure deformation of an object. Invented by Edward E. Simmons in 1938, the most common type of strain gauge consists of an Electrical insulation flexible backing which supports a metallic foil pattern. The gauge is attached to the object by a suitable adhesive.
	Strait A strait is a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water, and thus lies between two land masses. The terms strait, channel, passage and firth can be synonymous and interchangeable, although channel and firth have other meanings too.
	Strait of Dover The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel. The shortest distance across the strait is from the South Foreland, some 6 kilometre north-east of Dover in the county of Kent, England, to Cap Gris Nez, a Headlands and bays near Calais in the dpartement of Pas-de-Calais, France.
	Strait of Georgia The Strait of Georgia is a 240 km-long strait between Vancouver Island and the mainland Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada. The southern end of the strait is the intersection of Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, while the northern end is Johnstone Strait.
	Strait of Gibraltar The Strait of Gibraltar is the strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean from the Mediterranean Sea and separates Spain from Morocco. The name comes from Gibraltar, which in turn originates from the Arabic language Jebel at-Tariq meaning mountain of Tariq.
	Strait of Hormuz The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow, strategically important stretch of ocean between the Gulf of Oman in the southeast and the Persian Gulf in the southwest. On the north coast is Iran and on the south coast is the United Arab Emirates and Musandam, an exclave of Oman.
	Strait of Magellan The Strait of Magellan is a navigable route immediately south of mainland South America. The strait is arguably the most important natural passage between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, but it is considered a difficult route to navigate because of the inhospitable climate and the narrowness of the passage.