Connotation and Stuff

noun

• What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression.
  • synonyms: intension
• An idea that is implied or suggested. .

(n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

noun

• The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
  • usage: "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
  • synonyms: material
• Miscellaneous unspecified objects.
  • usage: "the trunk was full of stuff"
• Informal terms for personal possessions.
  • usage: "did you take all your clobber"
  • synonyms: clobber
• Senseless talk.
  • usage: "don't give me that stuff"
  • synonyms: stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock
• Unspecified qualities required to do or be something.
  • usage: "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
• Information in some unspecified form.
  • usage: "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
• A critically important or characteristic component.
  • usage: "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"

verb

• Cram into a cavity.
  • usage: "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
• Press or force.
  • usage: "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
  • synonyms: thrust, shove, squeeze
• Obstruct.
  • usage: "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
  • synonyms: lug, choke up, block
• Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself.
  • usage: "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
  • synonyms: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
• Treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting.
  • usage: "stuff a bearskin"
• Fill tightly with a material.
  • usage: "stuff a pillow with feathers"
• Fill with a stuffing while cooking.
  • usage: "Have you stuffed the turkey yet"
  • synonyms: farce

• (v.t.) Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
• (v.t.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
• (v.t.) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
• (n.) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
• (n.) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
• (n.) To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
• (n.) To fill by being pressed or packed into.
• (n.) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
• (n.) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
• (v.t.) Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
• (n.) To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
• (v.t.) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
• (v.i.) To feed gluttonously; to cram.
• (v.t.) Paper stock ground ready for use.
• (n.) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
• (v.t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
• (n.) To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
• (v.t.) A medicine or mixture; a potion.