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stere

a unit of volume equal to one cubic meter
Not to be confused with:
steer – to guide or direct the course of; a young ox castrated and raised for beef
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stere

 (stîr)
n. Abbr. s
A unit of volume equal to one cubic meter.

[French stère, from Greek stereos, solid, hard; see ster- in Indo-European roots.]
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stere

(stɪə)
n
(Units) a unit used to measure volumes of stacked timber equal to one cubic metre (35.315 cubic feet)
[C18: from French stère, from Greek stereos solid]
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stere

(stɪər)

n.
a cubic meter, equivalent to 35.2 cubic feet, used to measure cordwood.
[1790–1800; < French stère < Greek stereós solid]
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stere

A unit of volume, especially used for measuring timber. 1 stere = 1 m3.
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Socialist views, and somehow hostile to the Russian Narodism, had also numerous activists from Bessarabia, such as Constantin Stere, one of the founders, along Garabet Ibraileanu (considered the father of populism), of "Viata Romaneasca" magazine.
5:10, "beati qui persecutionem patiuntur propter iustitiam" [blessed are those who endure persecution for the sake of justice], to "Pay ar happen also Pat con her hert stere" (Patience 27).
[2] Saed Alrabaee, Noman Saleem, Stere Preda, Lingyu Wang, and Mourad Debbabi.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION: desert; destroy; DESTROYER; deter; doest; dost; dote; doter; erst; ester; eyot; oersted; oyster; reset; resort; resorted; rest; rested; restore; restored; rete; retro; retry; rorty; roster; rostered; rote; ryot; sort; sorted; sorter; steed; steer; stere; stereo; store; stored; storer; storey; story; strode; stye; teed; teredo; teres; terry; terse; terser; tody; toed; tore; torr; torse; toyed; tree; treed; trey; trod; troy; tyre; tyred; tyro.
With occupational nouns, the suffix "ster" (often "stere" or "stre") was sometimes added to words as a feminine form.
Tragically enough, the precise number of victims is still disputed, yet the historic existence of the events is beyond any doubt (Stere, 2008; Morar, 2007).
Et de preciser qu'avec une stere de bois, on peut faire cuire du pain pendant trois jours.
(29) A sixth component of radical nationalist ideology that had only a minor following was poporanism (i.e., the ideology of politician Constantin Stere), founded on the idea that the Romanian people had a strong archaic nature that admitted no social infestations or adjustments.
When the memorialist Constantin Stere spoke of a "very picturesque incident "taking place in the Romanian Parliament, he referred to an unusual event, an unexpected occurrence, which resulted from the violation of the common law during a moment of protocol suspension, of rules interruption.