sterling
8 definitions found
sterling - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Sterling \Ster"ling\, a.
1. Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money
of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling;
a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly
applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost,
sterling value, are used. "With sterling money." --Shak.
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2. Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the
highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling
merit; a man of sterling good sense.
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Sterling \Ster"ling\, n. (Engin.)
Same as Starling, 3.
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Sterling \Ster"ling\, n. [OE. sterlynge, starling, for
easterling, LL. esterlingus, probably from Easterling, once
the popular name of German trades in England, whose money was
of the purest quality: cf. MHG. sterlink a certain coin. Cf.
East. "Certain merchants of Norwaie, Denmarke, and of
others those parties, called Ostomanni, or (as in our vulgar
language we tearme them), easterlings, because they lie east
in respect of us." --Holinshed. "In the time of . . . King
Richard the First, monie coined in the east parts of Germanie
began to be of especiall request in England for the puritie
thereof, and was called Easterling monie, as all inhabitants
of those parts were called Easterlings, and shortly after
some of that countrie, skillful in mint matters and allaies,
were sent for into this realme to bring the coine to
perfection; which since that time was called of them
sterling, for Easterling." --Camden. "Four thousand pound of
sterlings." --R. of Gloucester.]
1. Any English coin of standard value; coined money.
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So that ye offer nobles or sterlings. --Chaucer.
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And Roman wealth in English sterling view.
--Arbuthnot.
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2. A certain standard of quality or value for money.
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Sterling was the known and approved standard in
England, in all probability, from the beginning of
King Henry the Second's reign. --S. M. Leake.
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Starling \Star"ling\ (-l[i^]ng), n. [OE. sterlyng, a dim. of OE.
stare, AS. staer; akin to AS. stearn, G. star, staar, OHG.
stara, Icel. starri, stari, Sw. stare, Dan. staer, L.
sturnus. Cf. Stare a starling.]
1. (Zool.) Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and
allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss,
and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird,
and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also
stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is
Sternopastor contra.
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2. (Zool.) A California fish; the rock trout.
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3. A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge
for protection and support; -- called also sterling.
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Rose-colored starling. (Zool.) See Pastor.
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sterling - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
sterling
adj 1: highest in quality [syn: greatest, sterling(a),
superlative]
n 1: British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic
monetary unit of the UK
sterling - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Sterling, AK (CDP, FIPS 73070)
Location: 60.51518 N, 150.79705 W
Population (1990): 3802 (2179 housing units)
Area: 220.9 sq km (land), 7.3 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 99672
Sterling, CO (city, FIPS 73935)
Location: 40.62649 N, 103.19914 W
Population (1990): 10362 (4791 housing units)
Area: 14.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 80751
Sterling, CT
Zip code(s): 06377
Sterling, ID
Zip code(s): 83210
Sterling, IL (city, FIPS 72546)
Location: 41.79823 N, 89.69153 W
Population (1990): 15132 (6364 housing units)
Area: 10.5 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 61081
Sterling, KS (city, FIPS 68200)
Location: 38.20916 N, 98.20578 W
Population (1990): 2115 (878 housing units)
Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 67579
Sterling, MA
Zip code(s): 01564
Sterling, MI (village, FIPS 76420)
Location: 44.03213 N, 84.02031 W
Population (1990): 520 (190 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 48659
Sterling, ND
Zip code(s): 58572
Sterling, NE (village, FIPS 47150)
Location: 40.46189 N, 96.37806 W
Population (1990): 451 (217 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 68443
Sterling, NY
Zip code(s): 13156
Sterling, OH
Zip code(s): 44276
Sterling, OK (town, FIPS 70150)
Location: 34.74952 N, 98.17244 W
Population (1990): 684 (337 housing units)
Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Sterling, PA
Zip code(s): 18463
Sterling, UT (town, FIPS 72940)
Location: 39.19430 N, 111.69087 W
Population (1990): 191 (77 housing units)
Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Sterling, VA (CDP, FIPS 75376)
Location: 39.00133 N, 77.40830 W
Population (1990): 20512 (7344 housing units)
Area: 17.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 22170
sterling - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :
STERLING. Current money of Great Britain, but anciently a small coin, worth
about one penny; and so called, as some suppose, because it was stamped with
the figure of a small star, or, as others suppose, because it was first
stamped in England in the reign of King John, by merchants from Germany
called Esterlings. Pounds sterling, originally signified so many pounds in
weight of these coins. Thus we find in Matthew Paris, A.D. 1242, the
expression "Accepit a rege pro stipendio tredecim libras esterlingorum." The
secondary or derived sense is a certain value in current money, whether in
coins or other currency. Lowndes, 14. Watts' Gloss. Ad verbum.
sterling - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
191 Moby Thesaurus words for "sterling":
Christian, admirable, and pence, authentic, blameless, bona fide,
candid, capital, card-carrying, cash, circulating medium, clean,
coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, creditable, currency, decent,
dinkum, divine, dollars, emergency money, erect, estimable,
ethical, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, fair, filthy lucre,
financial, fine, first-class, fiscal, following the letter,
fractional currency, full of integrity, genuine, gilt-edged,
glorious, gold, golden, good, hard cash, hard currency, heavenly,
high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest,
honest-to-God, honorable, immaculate, immense, inartificial,
incomparable, inviolate, irreproachable, just, law-abiding,
law-loving, law-revering, lawful, legal tender, legitimate,
lifelike, literal, lucre, magnificent, mammon, managed currency,
manly, marvelous, matchless, medium of exchange, mintage, monetary,
money, moral, natural, naturalistic, necessity money, noble,
nonpareil, numismatic, nummary, original, pecuniary, peerless,
pelf, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, principled, pure,
real, realistic, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded,
righteous, rightful, scrip, sensational, shillings, silver,
simon-pure, simple, sincere, soft currency, specie, splendid,
splendiferous, spotless, stainless, sumptuary, super, superb,
supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, superior, superlative,
sure-enough, terrific, the almighty dollar, the wherewith,
the wherewithal, tremendous, true, true to life, true to nature,
true to reality, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing,
true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, unadulterated, unaffected,
unassumed, unassuming, unblemished, uncolored, unconcocted,
uncopied, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, uncounterfeited, undefiled,
undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated,
unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious,
unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, unimpeachable, uninvented,
unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated,
unspecious, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unsynthetic,
untarnished, unvarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, verbal,
verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, very good, virtuous, wonderful,
word-for-word, worthy, yeomanly
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