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Sturt

Sturt \Sturt\, v. t. [Cf. Start, v. i.] To vex; to annoy; to startle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Sturt

Sturt \Sturt\, n.

  1. Disturbance; annoyance; care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] ``Sturt and care.''
    --J. Rolland.

  2. (Mining) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.
    --Raymond.

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sturt

Etymology 1 n. (context biology English) In an embryo, an angle equal to two gons. If a mosaic forms in the embryo, the line passes between two organs with a probability, in percent, equal to the number of sturts between them. Etymology 2

n. 1 (context obsolete UK Scotland dialect English) disturbance; annoyance; care 2 (context mining English) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits. vb. (context obsolete UK Scotland dialect English) To vex; to annoy; to startle.

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Sturt

Sturt may refer to:

  • Sturt (surname)
  • Sturt (biology), a unit of measurement in embryology named for Alfred Sturtevant

Places and things named after Charles Sturt include:

  • Division of Sturt, a federal electoral district in South Australia
  • Sturt, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide
  • Sturt National Park, New South Wales
  • Sturt Highway, Australia
  • Sturt Street, Adelaide
  • Sturt River, Adelaide
  • Sturt Football Club, an Australian Rules Football club
Sturt (biology)

In embryology, sturt is a measure of distance. On the fate map, the further apart two regions are, the more likely the resulting structures are to form different genotypes. A difference of 1% in the ratio of differing genotypes is described as one sturt, after Alfred Henry Sturtevant.

Sturt (surname)

Sturt, as a surname, may refer to:

  • Charles Sturt (1795-1869), an English explorer of Australia
  • Evelyn Pitfield Shirley Sturt (1816-1885), English-born Superintendent of Police in Melbourne, elder brother of Charles Sturt
  • Fred Sturt (born 1951), American National Football League player
  • George Sturt (1863-1927), English writer on rural crafts and affairs who also wrote under the pseudonym George Bourne
  • Henry Sturt (1795-1866), British landowner and politician
  • Henry Sturt, 1st Baron Alington (1825-1904)
  • Humphrey Sturt (c. 1725-1786), British architect
  • Humphrey Sturt, 2nd Baron Alington (1859-1919), son of the 1st Baron Alington
  • John Sturt (1658–1730), English engraver
  • Michael Sturt, (born 1941), English businessman and cricketer
  • Montague Sturt, (1876-1961), English cricketer
  • Napier Sturt, 3rd Baron Alington (1896-1940), son of the 2nd Baron Alington
  • William Sturt (christened 1797, date of death unknown), English cricketer

Usage examples of "sturt".

Government buildings, and from among them you look down over the police paddock on to the Sturt river again, which has made a sudden bend and come round to your feet.

There were deserts in every direction: The Great Western, Tanami, Great Victoria, Sturt, Great Sandy, Gibson and Simpson.

The layout of the center of the island reminded me of Sturt, an inland South Australian neopolis built at about the time Stateless was seeded.