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Translingual
Symbol
ST
- (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)
- Initialism of short ton(s).
- Initialism of storyteller, especially in the context of running certain tabletop role-playing games.
- (uncountable) Abbreviation of steam.
- (euphemistic) Initialism of sanitary towel.
- (medicine) An ST segment.
- Initialism of short time. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (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: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
Proper noun
ST
- (computing) Atari ST.
- 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...
- (linguistics, Egyptology) Initialism of Standard Theory.
Verb
ST (third-person singular simple present STs, present participle STing, simple past and past participle STed)
- Someone who acts as a game master (GM) in a tabletop role-playing game, especially any of the games produced by White Wolf.
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French
Etymology 1
Abbreviation.
Adjective
ST
- (initialism, film) Initialism of sous-titrée (“subtitled; a non-French film with French subtitles”).
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Etymology 2
Noun
ST f (uncountable)
- ST (“steam”) Abbreviation of vapeur.