Stuff vs. Staff

The material out of which something is made or formed; substance.

A stick or cane carried as an aid in walking or climbing.

The essential substance or elements; essence

A stout stick used as a weapon; a cudgel.

Unspecified material

A pole on which a flag is displayed; a flagstaff.

Household or personal articles considered as a group.

A rod or baton carried as a symbol of authority.

Worthless objects.

pl. staffs A rule or similar graduated stick used for testing or measuring, as in surveying.

(Slang) Specific talk or actions

A group of assistants to a manager, executive, or other person in authority.

The control a player has over a ball, especially to give it spin, english, curve, or speed.

A group of military officers assigned to assist a commanding officer in an executive or advisory capacity.

The spin, english, curve, or speed imparted to a ball

The personnel who carry out a specific enterprise

(Basketball) A dunk shot.

Something that serves as a staple or support.

Special capability

(Music) A set of horizontal lines and intermediate spaces used in notation to represent a sequence of pitches, in modern notation normally consisting of five lines and four spaces. Also called stave.

Chiefly British Woven material, especially woolens.

A building material of plaster and fiber used as an exterior wall covering of temporary buildings, as at expositions.

(Slang) Money; cash.

To provide with a staff of workers or assistants.

(Slang) A drug, especially one that is illegal or habit-forming.

To serve on the staff of (an organization).

To pack (a container) tightly; cram

A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.

To block (a passage); plug

A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.

(Basketball) To block (a shot or an opponent who is shooting), especially before the ball leaves the shooter's hands.

The employees of a business.

To place forcefully into a container or space; thrust

(uncountable) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.^W

(Sports) To shoot (a ball or puck) forcefully into the goal from close range.

A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.

(Basketball) To dunk (the ball).

A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.

To fill with an appropriate stuffing

(archaic) The rung of a ladder.

To fill (an animal skin) to restore its natural form for mounting or display.

A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.

To cram with food.

(engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.

To fill (the mind)

(surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.

To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).

(military) 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.

To apply a preservative and softening agent to (leather).

A form of token once used, in combination with a ticket, for safe train movements between two points on a single line.

To overeat; gorge.

(transitive) To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.

(informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.

A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or stick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.

Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.

A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.

(informal) Unspecified things or matters.

A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.

The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.

A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.

(archaic) A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.

The round of a ladder.

(archaic) Boards used for building.

A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.

Abstract/figurative substance or character.

The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; - formerly called stave.

Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.

An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.

(informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.

The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.

(slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.

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 État Major.

(obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.

Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendent or manager; sometimes used for the entire group of employees of an enterprise, excluding the top management; as, the staff of a newspaper.

Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.

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.

(nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.

personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task;

Money.

the body of teachers and administrators at a school;

(transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.

a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose;

(transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.

building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration

To fill with seasoning.

a rod carried as a symbol

(transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.

(music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written

To sate.

provide with staff;

(pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.

serve on the staff of;

To break; to destroy.

To sexually penetrate.

Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.

(informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.

(transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.

To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.

(transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.

(transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.

Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.

Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.

A medicine or mixture; a potion.

Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.

A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.

Paper stock ground ready for use.

To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.

To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.

To fill by being pressed or packed into.

To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.

To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.

To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; - said of birds or other animals.

To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).

To feed gluttonously; to cram.

the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object;

miscellaneous unspecified objects;

informal terms for personal possessions;

senseless talk;

unspecified qualities required to do or be something;

information in some unspecified form;

a critically important or characteristic component;

fill completely;

press or force;

obstruct;

overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself;

treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting;

fill tightly with a material;

fill with a stuffing while cooking;