Staff may refer to:
Pole
* Staff, a weapon used in
stick-fighting
Stick-fighting, stickfighting, or stick fighting is a variety of martial arts which use simple long, slender, blunt, hand-held, generally wooden "sticks" for fighting, such as a gun staff, bō, jō, walking stick, baston, arnis sticks or simila ...
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Quarterstaff
A quarterstaff (plural quarterstaffs or quarterstaves), also short staff or simply staff is a traditional European pole weapon, which was especially prominent in England during the Early Modern period.
The term is generally accepted to refer t ...
, a European pole weapon
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Staff of office, a pole that indicates a position
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Staff (railway signalling)
In railway signalling, a token is a physical object which a train driver is required to have or see before entering onto a particular section of single track. The token is clearly endorsed with the names of the section it belongs to. A token sys ...
, a token authorizing a locomotive driver to use a particular stretch of single track
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Level staff {{short description, Graduated rod used to measure differences between heights
A level staff, also called levelling rod, is a graduated wooden or aluminium rod, used with a levelling instrument to determine the difference in height between points ...
, also called levelling rod, a graduated rod for comparing heights
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Fire staff
A fire staff is a staff constructed out of wood or metal with Kevlar
Kevlar (para-aramid) is a strong, heat-resistant synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora. Developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont in 1965, ...
, a staff of wood or metal and Kevlar, used for fire dancing and performance
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Flagstaff, on which a flag is flown
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Scout staff
A Scout staff (or Scout stave) is a shoulder-high wooden pole or quarterstaff, traditionally carried by Boy Scouts as part of their accoutrements. Its main purpose was as a walking stick or Trekking pole, but it had a number of other uses in emer ...
, a tall pole traditionally used by Boy Scouts, which has a number of uses in an emergency
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Pilgrim's staff
The pilgrim's staff is a walking stick used by Christian pilgrims during their pilgrimages, like the Way of St. James to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela in Spain or the Via Francigena to Rome. The pilgrim's staff has a strong association wit ...
, a walking stick used by pilgrims during their pilgrimages
Military
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Staff (military), the organ of military command and planning
* , a United States Navy minesweeper
* Smart Target-Activated Fire and Forget (XM943 STAFF), an American-made experimental 120mm
tank gun
A tank gun is the main armament of a tank. Modern tank guns are high-velocity, large-caliber artilleries capable of firing kinetic energy penetrators, high-explosive anti-tank, and cannon-launched guided projectiles. Anti-aircraft guns can a ...
shell
People
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Staff (name) Staff is both a surname and a nickname. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
* Barbara Staff (born 1924), American political activist
* David Staff (born 1979), English footballer
* Frank Staff (1918–1971), South African ballet dancer, c ...
, a list of people with either the surname or nickname
Other uses
* People in
employment within any organization
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, a set of five horizontal lines upon which notes are placed in written music notation
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Staff (building material)
Staff is a kind of artificial stone used for covering and ornamenting temporary buildings.
It is chiefly made of powdered gypsum or plaster of Paris, with a little cement, glycerin, and dextrin, mixed with water until it is about as thick as mo ...
(short for ''staffieren''), an artificial stone product used as ornament
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Jack Staff
Jack Staff is a British superhero created by comic book writer/artist Paul Grist. Billed as "Britain's Greatest Hero", it is known for being in the style of an anthology title and for its multi-linear plotlines.
He first saw print in comics pu ...
, British superhero
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Staffordshire, a county in England
* Staff, a nickname for the
Staffordshire Bull Terrier
The Staffordshire Bull Terrier, also called the Staffy or Stafford, is a purebred dog of small to medium size in the terrier group that originated in the northern parts of Birmingham and in the Black Country of Staffordshire, for which it is ...
See also
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Celastrus
''Celastrus'', commonly known as staff vine, staff tree or bittersweet, is a genus in the family Celastraceae which comprises about 30-40 species of shrubs and vines. They have a wide distribution in East Asia, Australasia, Africa, and the Amer ...
'', a shrub genus commonly known as the staff vine or staff tree
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Staphylococcus'', often shortened to "staph", bacteria which can cause infection
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