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stat
1[ stat ]
adverb
- with no delay: (used especially in medical contexts in reference to the administration of a drug or as a medical directive): The patient was given a stat dose of morphine.
Blood work will be done stat.
The patient was given a stat dose of morphine.
I need a copy of the spreadsheet, stat!
stat.
2abbreviation for
- (in prescriptions) immediately.
stat
3[ stat ]
noun
- Usually stats. statistics.
adjective
- of, relating to, or containing statistics:
Some sports fans memorize all the stat sheets published about a team.
stat.
4abbreviation for
- statuary.
- statue.
- statute.
stat
5[ stat ]
noun
- Also 'stat. thermostat.
-stat
6- a combining form used in the names of devices that stabilize or make constant what is specified by the initial element:
thermostat; rheostat.
stat.
1abbreviation for
- (in prescriptions) immediately
- stationary
- statute
-stat
2combining form
- indicating a device that causes something to remain stationary or constant
thermostat
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Example Sentences
ESPN would not say how much it cost to land Silver, but the stat wizard did acknowledge that money was a factor.
Someone needs to get that in needlepoint on a throw pillow stat.
According to the American Cancer Society-affiliated study that yielded this stat, aspirin might be great for the gut.
And the Republican solution is to get more people hitched, stat.
The 2011 University of Toronto-affiliated study that yielded this stat compared pot-smoking and non-pot-smoking MS patients.
He was immediately appalled at his outburst, and by the pilot's startled glance, but the stat went off immediately.
For seven weeks now he had lived with it intricately and intimately, as the case shoved everything else right off the news-stat.
Both men turned abruptly as the stat-screen gave its warning blip.
Mandleco strode for the tele-stat, then turned back and pointed a trembling finger at Beardsley.
The expression of shocked surprise was still on his face as the stat gun blast took him squarely in the chest.
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