Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of volume equal to one cubic meter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cubic meter: the French unit for solid measure, equal to 35.31 cubic feet.
- A Middle English form of
steer , steer, stir, stoor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.3 cubic feet, or nearly 11/3 cubic yards.
- verb obsolete To stir.
- noun obsolete Helmsman. See 6th
steer . - noun obsolete A rudder. See 5th
steer .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A measure of
volume used e.g. for cut wood, equal to onecubic meter .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The group has also stepped up attacks on anyone who opposes their au stere form of Islam.
Pakistan Mosque Bombings Kill Dozens Zahid Hussain 2010
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Thus, stere decisis and the requirement that overruling a previous precedent must at least be explained, means nothing to this Supreme Court of Washington.
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Digital audio (either coax or fiber optic-check with owner's manual to determine which) for Dolby Digital audio, may want to have back-up standard analog audio (regular stere cable).
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Therefore, stere decisis meant nothing to the majority.
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And for because that Saturne is of so late sterynge, therfore the folk of that contree, that ben undre his clymat, han of kynde no wille for to meve ne stere to seche strange places.
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And for because that Saturne is of so late sterynge, therfore the folk of that contree, that ben undre his clymat, han of kynde no wille for to meve ne stere to seche strange places.
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Here all was rather more stere than what he had so far seen.
Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981
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RALESTONE LUCK stere who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
Ralestone Luck Norton, Andre 1938
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Both of the talks will be illustrated with stere opticon views of actual scenes from life among the Zulus.
SEME 1910
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Mr.G. F. Richings delivered his famous stere-optican lecture at Bethel Church on the 20th of August. 0
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5°F at 9:00 this a.m. I could sure use a stere or two of cordwood just now.
January 17, 2013