stuff
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- noun
- /stʌf/
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material
- Swarf is the stuff that comes out of your machine tools.
- raw stuff
But you're so made of the same amount of stuff, the same amount of mass.
- But you're so made of the same amount of stuff, the same amount of mass.
- There are all sorts of radioactive components from the stuff inside the reactor.
- Matter, like the stuff that we are made of, can't go there.
- But the matter itself, the stuff, still exists.
- Otherwise he would have motel and he had the blue stuff all over him.
Examples
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But you look at steel and concrete and that stuff is really, really resilient.
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Matter, like the stuff that we are made of, can't go there.
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This stuff will kill you.
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Capital is machines, land, building, all the stuff that workers use to make things.
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And the people to admire are the people who make stuff out of nothing.
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Pizza has cheese, tomato sauce, all your favorite stuff.
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I'm just going to the chemist to get some stuff for my mum.
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I've got all this stuff to make a real Italian feast.
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The stuff looks good.
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The artist used various colors of stuff to create a vibrant painting.
Synonyms
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2.1
Things like wood or cloth that are used to make objects
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2.8
The stuff that takes up space and can be solid, liquid, or gas
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2.8
A physical material that objects are made of
The basic material that makes up objects
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Etymology
Stuff originally meant 'material' (from the old French estoffe), so using it for the 'material or substance' something is made of keeps the original idea of what things are made from.