Crossword-Solution: STAFF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Staff | 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. |
| Staff | n. | A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds. |
| Staff | n. | A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff. |
| Staff | n. | A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed. |
| Staff | n. | The round of a ladder. |
| Staff | n. | A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave. |
| Staff | n. | The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave. |
| Staff | n. | An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch. |
| Staff | n. | The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder. |
| Staff | n. | An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major. |
| Staff | n. | Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with STAFF (5)
Changed into a weak old woman, With a staff she tottered onward, Wasted, wrinkled, old, and ugly! And the sisters and their husbands Laughed until the echoing forest Rang with their unseemly laughter.
Box 199, Mbabane); telephone [268] 46441 through 5 _#_Flag: three horizontal bands of blue (top), red (triple width), and blue; the red band is edged in yellow; centered in the red band is a large black and white shield covering two spears and a staff decorated with feather tassels, all placed horizontally _*_Economy _#_Overview: The economy is based on subsistence agriculture, which occupies much of the labor force and contributes about 23% to GDP.
The shepherd of each flock marched behind, a bundle containing his kit for the week strapped upon his shoulders, and in his hand his crook, which he used as the staff of his pilgrimage.
And yet his fortune brings him little joy; For blind of seeing, clad in beggar’s weeds, For purple robes, and leaning on his staff, To a strange land he soon shall grope his way.
But I could imagine, even then, that, under some excitement which should go deeply into his consciousness—roused by a trumpet’s peal, loud enough to awaken all of his energies that were not dead, but only slumbering—he was yet capable of flinging off his infirmities like a sick man’s gown, dropping the staff of age to seize a battle-sword, and starting up once more a warrior.
Quotes with STAFF (3)
Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.
It seems that the young woman made some indelicate suggestion of a threesome... When I got there, Miss Nash was standing by the hot tub in a small bikini, pointing the business end of a SIG-Sauer P-226 at her fella and concerned members of the hotel staff, while dunking the scantily clad female's head under the water and asking, "Who's diving for clams now, bitch?
The amorous shepherd has lost his staff, And his sheep are straying on the hillside, And he didn’t even play the flute he brought to play because he was thinking so much. No one came to him or went away. He never found his staff again. Others, cursing at him, gathered his sheep for him. No one had loved him, in the end. When he got up from the hillside and the false truth, he saw everything: The great valleys full of the same green as always, The great distant mountains, more…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 249 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).