Look up: stead

1. stead
   [n] - the function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another
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2. stead
   a type of brittleness caused by enlarged grain size on annealing after a critical amount of cold work Category: Iron and steel industries
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3. Stead
   Stead noun [ Middle English stede place, Anglo-Saxon stede ; akin to LG. & Dutch stede , Old Saxon stad , stedi , Old High German stat , German statt , stätte , Icelandic staðr , Danis...
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4. Stead
   Stead transitive verb 1. To help; to support; to benefit; to assist. « Perhaps my succour or advisement meet, Mote stead you much your purpose to subdue.» Spenser. « It nothing steads us To chide him fro...
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5. stead
   position 3 place 1 lieu noun the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; `can you go in my stead?`; `took his place`; `in lieu of`
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