Meaning of stay | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A prop; a support.
2. A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
3. Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
4. A surname.
5. To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide
6. A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
7. A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
8. To remain awake past one's usual bedtime; not go to bed.
9. To continue to have a particular quality
10. A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
11. A corset.
    in-plural
12. The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
13. To remain in a fixed or established position.
14. To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady
15. A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress.
    archaic
16. A fastening for a garment; a hook; a clasp; anything to hang another thing on.
    archaic
17. To hold out or persevere to the end of a race or challenge.
18. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time
19. A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
20. To remain in one's memory; not be forgotten: That kind of compliment stays with you for years.
21. To stop or delay something. To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder. To restrain; withhold; check; stop. To cause to cease; to put an end to. To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back
22. A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
23. To brace, support, or prop up: The tower is stayed with cables.
24. Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
25. To put (a ship) on the opposite tack or to come about.
26. Hindrance; let; check.
    obsolete
27. stay put, to remain in the same position or place.
28. in stays, (of a fore-and-aft-rigged vessel) heading into the wind with sails shaking, as in coming about.
29. To persevere in some condition, action, or belief:keep, maintain, retain.
30. A means or device that keeps something erect, stable, or secure:brace, buttress, crutch, prop, shore, support, underpinning.

Equivalents

Examples

“I hope you enjoyed your stay in Hawaii.”

“The governor granted a stay of execution.”

“Later that day, however, Judge O'Kelley signed a stay of execution when Mr. Potts authorized other attorneys to renew his appeals.”

“Just before the deadline Donald Kowalski's attorney, Jack Fena, was able to obtain a stay in order to give him time to file a motion to overturn the testing order.”

“An appellate judge temporarily stayed the monitor’s work until a three-judge federal appeals panel can decide whether the stay should be kept in place longer while Apple undertakes a full challenge to the appointment of a monitor.”

“stand at a stay”

“Made of ſphear-metal, never to decay / Untill his revolution was at ſtay.”

“Affaires of state […] seemed rather to stand at a stay.”

“The wisdom, stay, and moderation of the king.”

“Not grudging that thy lust hath bounds and stays.”

“With prudent stay he long deferred / The rough contention.”

“They were able to read good authors without any stay, if the book were not false.”

“My onely strength and stay.”

“The trees themselves serve, at the same time, as so many stays for their Vines”

“April 27, 1823, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk Lord Liverpool is the single stay of this ministry.”

“Even when the deceptive mask was torn away, and the broken-hearted parent, beholding the accursed fact, that his darling son, the fancied stay of his declining age, was enlisted against him in his brother's horrible revolt, cursed them both and died, not even then did one compunctuous visiting touch his callous heart.”

“Where are the stays for my collar?”

“Her figure was tall, yet not too tall; comely and well-developed, yet not fat; her head set on her shoulders with an easy, pliant firmness; her waist, perfection in the eyes of a man, for it occupied its natural place, it filled out its natural circle, it was visibly and delightfully undeformed by stays.”

“When Jenny's stays are newly laced.”

“The engineer insisted on using stays for the scaffolding.”

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