Stud

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stud



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飾釘,板牆筋



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–noun 

1. a boss (圓形突出物), knob (球形突出物), nailhead, or other protuberance projecting from a surface or part, esp. as an ornament. 

2. any of various buttonlike, usually ornamental objects, mounted on a shank (小腿,工具的柄) that is passed through an article of clothing to fasten it: 



a [collar] stud.  



3. any of a number of slender, upright members of wood, steel, etc., forming the frame of a wall or partition and covered with plasterwork (灰泥), siding, etc. 

4. any of various projecting pins, lugs, or the like, on machines or other implements. 

5. Automotive. any of a large number of small projecting lugs (把手,柄) embedded in an automobile tire (studded tire) to improve traction on snowy or icy roads. 

6. an earring consisting of a small, buttonlike ornament mounted on a metal post designed to pass through a pierced ear lobe. (耳垂,腦肺葉)

7. Horology. (鐘錶學) the piece to which the fixed end of a hairspring (錶的細彈簧) is attached.  



–verb (used with object) 

8. to set with or as if with studs, bosses, or the like: 

The leather-covered door was studded with [brass nails].  

9. (of things) to be scattered over the expanse or surface of: 



[Stars] stud the sky.  



10. to set or scatter (objects) at intervals over an expanse or surface: 

to stud [raisins] over a cake.  

11. to furnish with or support by studs. 



–adjective 

12. ornamented with rivets (鉚釘), nailheads, or other buttonlike, usually metallic objects: a stud [belt].  



see riveting





–noun 

1. a studhorse or stallion. (種馬)

2. an establishment, as a farm, in which horses are kept for breeding. 

3. a number of horses, usually for racing or hunting, bred or kept by one owner. 

4. a male animal, as a bull or ram (宏福公羊), kept for breeding. 

5. a herd of animals kept for breeding. 

6. Slang. a man, esp. one who is notably virile and sexually active. 

7. Poker. stud poker.  



–adjective 

8. of, associated with, or pertaining to a studhorse or studhorses. 

9. retained for breeding purposes.  



—Idiom

10. at or in stud, (of a male animal) offered for the purpose of breeding.  



see virility





　His happiest moments are his days spent lolling on the beach in male company and having indiscriminate sex everywhere and with everyone. One of his first boyfriends, Pepe (Andrea Di Stefano), a handsome [bisexual] stud and heartbreaker (who later betrays him), is held up as Arenas's erotic ideal, a rampantly priapic force of nature. 





　　　

Before that, he was working in the U.S., starring in two of the summer’s most anticipated films: Ben Stiller’s irreverent, [star]-studded satire Tropic Thunder and the indie ensemble comedy Hamlet 2, which sold for $10 million at Sundance—one of the festival’s largest acquisitions. 





see loll jut stubby priapic