Stuff vs. Taxidermy — What's the Difference?

The material out of which something is made or formed; substance.

Taxidermy is the art of preserving an animal's body via mounting (over an armature) or stuffing, for the purpose of display or study. Animals are often, but not always, portrayed in a lifelike state.

The essential substance or elements; essence

The art or operation of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.

Unspecified material

The art of stuffing and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.

Household or personal articles considered as a group.

(transitive) To stuff and mount the skin of a dead animal.

Worthless objects.

The art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of animals so as to represent their natural appearance, as for cabinets.

(Slang) Specific talk or actions

The art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance

The control a player has over a ball, especially to give it spin, english, curve, or speed.

The spin, english, curve, or speed imparted to a ball

(Basketball) A dunk shot.

Special capability

Chiefly British Woven material, especially woolens.

(Slang) Money; cash.

(Slang) A drug, especially one that is illegal or habit-forming.

To pack (a container) tightly; cram

To block (a passage); plug

(Basketball) To block (a shot or an opponent who is shooting), especially before the ball leaves the shooter's hands.

To place forcefully into a container or space; thrust

(Sports) To shoot (a ball or puck) forcefully into the goal from close range.

(Basketball) To dunk (the ball).

To fill with an appropriate stuffing

To fill (an animal skin) to restore its natural form for mounting or display.

To cram with food.

To fill (the mind)

To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).

To apply a preservative and softening agent to (leather).

To overeat; gorge.

(informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.

Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.

(informal) Unspecified things or matters.

The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.

(archaic) A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.

(archaic) Boards used for building.

Abstract/figurative substance or character.

Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.

(informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.

(slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.

(obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.

Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.

(nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.

Money.

(transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.

(transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.

To fill with seasoning.

(transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.

To sate.

(pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.

To break; to destroy.

To sexually penetrate.

Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.

(informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.

(transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.

To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.

(transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.

(transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.

Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.

Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.

A medicine or mixture; a potion.

Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.

A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.

Paper stock ground ready for use.

To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.

To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.

To fill by being pressed or packed into.

To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.

To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.

To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; - said of birds or other animals.

To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).

To feed gluttonously; to cram.

The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object;

Miscellaneous unspecified objects;

Informal terms for personal possessions;

Senseless talk;

Unspecified qualities required to do or be something;

Information in some unspecified form;

A critically important or characteristic component;

Fill completely;

Press or force;

Obstruct;

Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself;

Treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting;

Fill tightly with a material;

Fill with a stuffing while cooking;