ST

See also: Appendix:Variations of "st"

Translingual

Symbol

ST

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for São Tomé and Príncipe.

   Synonym: STP (alpha-3)

English

Noun

ST (countable and uncountable, plural STs)

1. Initialism of short ton(s).
2. Initialism of storyteller, especially in the context of running certain tabletop role-playing games.
3. (uncountable) Abbreviation of steam.
4. (euphemistic) Initialism of sanitary towel.
5. (medicine) An ST segment.
6. Initialism of short time. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
7. (translation studies) Initialism of source text.

   Antonym: TT

   • 2004, Christina Schäffner, edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, Translation in Undergraduate Degree Programmes, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 119:

     [S]tudents in their first year believe that source text and target text should be identical in content, that the TT should be a reproduction of the ST in another language, and that the TT should read well and be understandable.

Descendants

• (steam): → French: ST

Proper noun

ST

1. (computing) Atari ST.
2. Initialism of Star Trek.
   • 1998, Reepicheep, “Good Bye Star Trek Voyager?”, in alt.christnet (Usenet):

     As references in various articles on my Web site will demonstrate, I do spend time reading publications promoting non-Christian viewpoints. But still ST is supposed to be entertaining. And I do know of many Christians who have long since stopped watching ST due to the unchristian values sometimes presented...

3. (linguistics, Egyptology) Initialism of Standard Theory.

Verb

ST (third-person singular simple present STs, present participle STing, simple past and past participle STed)

1. Someone who acts as a game master (GM) in a tabletop role-playing game, especially any of the games produced by White Wolf.

Translations

steam

• French: ST (fr)

Anagrams

• T's, TS, Ts, t's, ts

French

Etymology 1

Abbreviation.

Adjective

ST

1. (initialism, film) Initialism of sous-titrée (“subtitled; a non-French film with French subtitles”).

Alternative forms

• S.T., S. T., st, s.t., s. t.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• STA
• STF
• VASTF
• VFSTA
• VOAST
• VOASTF
• VOFSTA
• VOST
• VOSTA
• VOSTF

See also

• VO
• VA
• VF

Etymology 2

• (vapeur): English ST

Noun

ST f (uncountable)

1. ST (“steam”) Abbreviation of vapeur.