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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Synonyymit

Ääntäminen

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Määritelmät

Substantiivit

  1. (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.
  2. A prop; a support.
  3. 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.
  4. (archaic) A fastening for a garment; a hook; a clasp; anything to hang another thing on.
  5. (chain-cable) The transverse piece in a link.
  6. That which holds or restrains; obstacle; check; hindrance; restraint.
  7. A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress.
  8. (archaic) A standstill; a state of rest; entire cessation of motion or progress.
  9. A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
  10. A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
  11. Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn.
  12. (nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
  13. Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
  14. A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
  15. (obsolete) Hindrance; let; check.

Adverbit

  1. (UK dialectal) Steeply.

Verbit

  1. (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
  2. (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
  3. (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.
  4. (transitive) To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
  5. (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
  6. (transitive) To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
  7. (transitive) To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
  8. (transitive) To hold the attention of.
  9. (transitive) To bear up under; to endure; to hold out against; to resist.
  10. (transitive) To wait for; await.
  11. (intransitive) To rest; depend; rely.
  12. (intransitive) To stop; come to a stand or standstill.
  13. (intransitive) To come to an end; cease.
  14. (intransitive) To dwell; linger; tarry; wait.
  15. (intransitive) To make a stand; stand.
  16. (intransitive) To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end.
  17. (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for an indefinite time; sojourn; abide.
  18. (intransitive) To wait; rest in patience or expectation.
  19. (intransitive, used with on or upon) To wait as an attendant; give ceremonious or submissive attendance.
  20. (intransitive) To continue to have a particular quality.
  21. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
  22. (obsolete) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.
  23. To cause to cease; to put an end to.
  24. To fasten or secure with stays.

Adjektiivit

  1. (UK dialectal) Steep; ascending.
  2. (UK dialectal) (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
  3. (UK dialectal) Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
  4. (UK dialectal) Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.

Esimerkit

  • 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.

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektistayedPartisiipin perfektistay'd (vanhentunut)
ImperfektistayedImperfektistay'd (vanhentunut)
Partisiipin preesensstayingMonikkostays
KomparatiivistayerKomparatiivimore stay
KomparatiivistaylierSuperlatiivistayest
Superlatiivimost staySuperlatiivistayliest
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesensstaysYksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesensstayeth (vanhahtava)

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