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Definition of Staff
1. Verb. Provide with staff. "This position is not always staffed"
2. Noun. Personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task. "The general relied on his staff to make routine decisions"
Generic synonyms: Force, Personnel
Member holonyms: Staff Member, Staffer
3. Verb. Serve on the staff of. "The two men staff the reception desk"
4. Noun. A strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose. "He walked with the help of a wooden staff"
Generic synonyms: Stick
5. Noun. The body of teachers and administrators at a school. "The dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university"
Generic synonyms: Body
Group relationships: School
Member holonyms: Prof, Professor
6. Noun. Building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration.
7. Noun. A rod carried as a symbol.
Specialized synonyms: Crosier, Crozier, Mace, Scepter, Sceptre, Verge, Wand, Tipstaff
8. Noun. (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written.
Generic synonyms: Musical Notation
Terms within: Staff Line, Space
Category relationships: Music
Definition of Staff
1. n. A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
2. n. Plaster combined with fibrous and other materials so as to be suitable for sculpture in relief or in the round, or for forming flat plates or boards of considerable size which can be nailed to framework to make the exterior of a larger structure, forming joints which may afterward be repaired and concealed with fresh plaster.
Definition of Staff
1. Noun. (context: plural staffs or staves) a long, straight stick, especially one used to assist in walking. ¹
2. Noun. (music plural staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written. ¹
3. Noun. (context: plural staff) The employees of a business. ¹
4. Noun. A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering (see Wikipedia article) ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) to supply (a business) with employees ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Staff
1. to provide with a staff (a body of assistants) [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Staff
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1. A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike. "And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar to bear it withal." (Ex. Xxxviii. 7) "With forks and staves the felon to pursue." (Dryden)
2. A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds. "Hooked staves." "The boy was the very staff of my age." (Shak) "He spoke of it [beer] in "The Earnest Cry," and likewise in the "Scotch Drink," as one of the staffs of life which had been struck from the poor man's hand." (Prof. Wilson)
3. A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff. "Methought this staff, mine office badge in court, Was broke in twain." (Shak) "All his officers brake their staves; but at their return new staves were delivered unto them." (Hayward)
4. A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
5. The round of a ladder. "I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves." (Dr. J. Campbell (E. Brown's Travels))
6. A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave. "Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroic poem, as being all too lyrical." (Dryden)
7. The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; formerly called stave.
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