Stayname

• 1

  A surname.

stayverb詞源 1/steɪ/

• 1

  To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.

  • We stayed in Hawaii for a week.  I can only stay for an hour.
  • She would commaund the hasty Sunne to stay, Or backward turne his course from heuen's hight,
• 2

  To continue to have a particular quality.

  • Wear gloves so your hands stay warm.
  • Promise me you'll always stay/remain my little prince.
• 3

  To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.

  • Lord Mayor of London. See, where he stands between two clergymen! Duke of Buckingham. Two props of virtue for a Christian prince, To stay him from the fall of vanity:
  • But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
• 4

  To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.

  • […] he has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, as fast as Phoebe could cut it, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute […]
• 5

  To stop or delay something.

  • Your ships are stay’d at Venice.
  • 1671, John Evelyn, Diary, entry dated 14 November, 1671, in The Diary of John Evelyn, London: Macmillan, 1906, Volume 2, p. 337, This business staid me in London almost a week […]
• 6

  To stop or delay something.

  • 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book 5, in The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker, London: Andrew Crook, 1666, p. , […] all that may but with any the least shew of possibility stay their mindes from thinking that true, which they heartily wish were false, but cannot think it so […]
  • So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul.
• 7

  To stop or delay something.

  • Now stay your strife […]
  • For flattering planets seemed to say This child should ills of ages stay,
• 8

  To stop or delay something.

  • The governor stayed the execution until the appeal could be heard.
  • Without one word to deny himself, Yuan let himself be bound, his hands behind his back, and no one could stay the matter.

staynoun詞源 1/steɪ/

• 1

  Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.

  • I hope you enjoyed your stay in Hawaii.
• 2

  lawA postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.

  • 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.
• 3

  archaicA stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress.

  • stand at a stay
  • Made of ſphear-metal, never to decay / Untill his revolution was at ſtay.
• 4

  A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.

• 5

  nauticaltransportA station or fixed anchorage for vessels.

• 6

  Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.

  • The wisdom, stay, and moderation of the king.
  • Not grudging that thy lust hath bounds and stays.
• 7

  obsoleteHindrance; let; check.

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

staynoun詞源 2/steɪ/

• 1

  A prop; a support.

  • My onely strength and stay.
  • The trees themselves serve, at the same time, as so many stays for their Vines
• 2

  A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.

  • Where are the stays for my collar?
• 3

  A corset.

  • 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.
• 4

  archaicA fastening for a garment; a hook; a clasp; anything to hang another thing on.

stayparticle詞源 2/steɪ/

• 1

  Aspect marker indicating frequency or permanence.

  • He stay fighting.

staynoun詞源 3/steɪ/

• 1

  nauticaltransportA strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.

• 2

  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.

  • The engineer insisted on using stays for the scaffolding.
• 3

  The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.

stayverb詞源 3/steɪ/

• 1

  To brace or support with a stay or stays

  • stay a mast
• 2

  nauticaltransportTo incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.

• 3

  nauticaltransportTo tack; put on the other tack.

  • to stay ship
• 4

  nauticaltransportTo change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.

stayadj詞源 4/steɪ/

• 1

  dialectalSteep; ascending.

  • The Castle of Edr. is naturally a great strenth situate upon the top of a high Rock perpendicular on all sides, except on the entry from the burgh, which is a stay ascent and is well fortified with strong Walls, three gates each one within another, with Drawbridges, and all necessary fortifications.
• 2

  dialectal(of a roof) Steeply pitched.

• 3

  dialectalDifficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.

• 4

  dialectalStiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.

stayadv詞源 4/steɪ/

• 1

  dialectalSteeply.