Stat Definition

stăt
stats
noun

Statistic.

Webster's New World
A statistic.
American Heritage
adjective
With no delay; at once. Used especially in medicine.
American Heritage Medicine
abbreviation
Statistic.
American Heritage
Statuary.
Webster's New World
Statistics.
American Heritage
Statute(s)
Webster's New World
At once.
Webster's New World
suffix
Something that stabilizes.
Rheostat.
American Heritage
A device for reflecting something specified in a constant direction.
Heliostat.
American Heritage
Something that inhibits.
Fungistat.
American Heritage
adverb
At once; immediately.
Webster's New World

Immediately; now; usually used in medical situations, to connote extreme urgency.

Wiktionary
affix
An instrument or agent that keeps something (specified) stable or stationary.
Thermostat, heliostat.
Webster's New World
verb

(slang, gaming) To assign statistics to (a monster, etc. in a game).

If you stat it, they will kill it.
Wiktionary

Origin of Stat

  • New Latin -stata from Greek -statēs one that causes to stand or statos standing stā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • prob. < Gr -statēs, that which stops or makes steady < sta-, root of histanai, to cause to stand: see stand

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

  • Short for Latin statim stā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin statim (“immediately").

    From Wiktionary

Stat Sentence Examples

  • What is thus suggested is not a rash departure from the general point of view of idealism (by its achievements in every field to which it has been applied, " stat mole sua ") but a cautious inquiry into the possibility of reaching a conception of the world ' The most striking statement of this argument is to be found in Boutroux's treatise De la contingence des lois de la nature, first published in 1874 and reprinted without alteration in 1905.

  • Considering the vastness of the stat interests involved, there is much cause for satisfaction in the fact that these differences have been settled by peaceful arbitrament rather than by that recourse to force which has so often marked the delimitation of rights and territory on other continents.

  • For systems without a tank stat, it is vital to insulate the pipes adjacent to the tank that feed the heating coil.

  • The problem is getting each horse, trainer, jockey stat to tie up with the relevant info from the card.

  • Use the existing stat in the hall to control a new motorized valve supplying the hall rad only.

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Words Starting With

SSTSTA

Words Ending With

TATTAT

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