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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (nautical) A strong rope supporting a mast, and leading from the head of one mast down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- A prop; a support.
- 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.
- (archaic) A fastening for a garment; a hook; a clasp; anything to hang another thing on.
- (chain-cable) The transverse piece in a link.
- That which holds or restrains; obstacle; check; hindrance; restraint.
- A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress.
- (archaic) A standstill; a state of rest; entire cessation of motion or progress.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn.
- (nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- (obsolete) Hindrance; let; check.
Adverb
- (UK dialectal) Steeply.
Verb
- (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.
- (transitive) To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- (transitive) To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- (transitive) To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- (transitive) To hold the attention of.
- (transitive) To bear up under; to endure; to hold out against; to resist.
- (transitive) To wait for; await.
- (intransitive) To rest; depend; rely.
- (intransitive) To stop; come to a stand or standstill.
- (intransitive) To come to an end; cease.
- (intransitive) To dwell; linger; tarry; wait.
- (intransitive) To make a stand; stand.
- (intransitive) To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end.
- (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for an indefinite time; sojourn; abide.
- (intransitive) To wait; rest in patience or expectation.
- (intransitive, used with on or upon) To wait as an attendant; give ceremonious or submissive attendance.
- (intransitive) To continue to have a particular quality.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- (obsolete) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To fasten or secure with stays.
Adjektiv
- (UK dialectal) Steep; ascending.
- (UK dialectal) (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
- (UK dialectal) Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
- (UK dialectal) Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
Exempel
- Trees serve as so many stays for their vines.
- The father cannot stay any longer for the fortune.
- Wear gloves so your hands stay warm.
- The flames augment, and stay / At their full height, then languish to decay.
- The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[...]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
- He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute.
- I stay dinner there.
- Stay your strife.
- For flattering planets seemed to say / This child should ills of ages stay.
- to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler
- My only strength and stay.
- I'll tell thee all my whole device / When I am in my coach, which stays for us.
- Lord Liverpool is the single stay of this ministry.
- Made of sphere metal, never to decay / Until his revolution was at stay.
- stand at a stay
- Affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a stay.
- I hope you enjoyed your stay in Hawaii.
- Not grudging that thy lust hath bounds and stays.
- With prudent stay he long deferred / The rough contention.
- The wisdom, stay, and moderation of the king.
- Where are the stays for my collar?
- They were able to read good authors without any stay, if the book were not false.
- I stay here on my bond.
- stay a mast
- to stay ship
- Your ships are stay'd at Venice.
- This business staid me in London almost a week.
- I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new.
- Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side.
- Sallows and reeds[...]for vineyards useful found / To stay thy vines.
- all that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false
- She will not stay the siege of loving terms, / Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes.
- Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon.
- The engineer insisted on using stays for the scaffolding.
- That day the storm stayed.
- Here my commission stays.
- I must stay a little on one action.
- That horse stays well.
- We stayed in Hawaii for a week. I can only stay for an hour.
- She would command the hasty sun to stay.
- Stay, I command you; stay and hear me first.
- I stay a little longer, as one stays / To cover up the embers that still burn.
- “Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
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