'Stay' definitions:
Definition of 'stay'
From: WordNet
noun
Continuing or remaining in a place or state; "they had a nice stay in Paris"; "a lengthy hospital stay"; "a four- month stay in bankruptcy court"
noun
The state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage]
noun
A judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted; "the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court"
noun
A thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)
noun
(nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar
verb
Stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" [syn: stay, remain, rest] [ant: change]
verb
Stay put (in a certain place); "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here!"; "Stick around and you will learn something!" [syn: stay, stick, stick around, stay put] [ant: move]
verb
Dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" [syn: bide, abide, stay]
verb
Continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year" [syn: stay, stay on, continue, remain]
verb
verb
verb
Stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up" [syn: persist, remain, stay]
verb
verb
Stop a judicial process; "The judge stayed the execution order"
verb
Fasten with stays
verb
Definition of 'Stay'
From: GCIDE
- Stay \Stay\ (st[=a]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stayed (st[=a]d) or Staid (st[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Staying.] [OF. estayer, F. ['e]tayer to prop, fr. OF. estai, F. ['e]tai, a prop, probably fr. OD. stade, staeye, a prop, akin to E. stead; or cf. stay a rope to support a mast. Cf. Staid, a., Stay, v. i.]
- 1. To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support. [1913 Webster]
- Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. --Ex. xvii. 12. [1913 Webster]
- Sallows and reeds . . . for vineyards useful found To stay thy vines. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time. [1913 Webster]
- He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully. [1913 Webster]
- She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold. [1913 Webster]
- Him backward overthrew and down him stayed With their rude hands and grisly grapplement. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- All that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To hinder; to delay; to detain; to keep back. [1913 Webster]
- Your ships are stayed at Venice. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- This business staid me in London almost a week. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To remain for the purpose of; to wait for. "I stay dinner there." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To cause to cease; to put an end to. [1913 Webster]
- Stay your strife. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- For flattering planets seemed to say This child should ills of ages stay. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Engin.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Naut.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind. [1913 Webster]
- To stay a mast (Naut.), to incline it forward or aft, or to one side, by the stays and backstays. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stay'
From: GCIDE
- Stay \Stay\ (st[=a]), n. [AS. staeg, akin to D., G., Icel., Sw., & Dan. stag; cf. OF. estai, F. ['e]tai, of Teutonic origin.] (Naut.) A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft stays; those which lead to the vessel's side are called backstays. See Illust. of Ship. [1913 Webster]
- In stays, or Hove in stays (Naut.), in the act or situation of staying, or going about from one tack to another. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
- Stay holes (Naut.), openings in the edge of a staysail through which the hanks pass which join it to the stay.
- Stay tackle (Naut.), a tackle attached to a stay and used for hoisting or lowering heavy articles over the side.
- To miss stays (Naut.), to fail in the attempt to go about. --Totten.
- Triatic stay (Naut.), a rope secured at the ends to the heads of the foremast and mainmast with thimbles spliced to its bight into which the stay tackles hook. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stay'
From: GCIDE
- Stay \Stay\ (st[=a]), v. i. [[root]163. See Stay to hold up, prop.]
- 1. To remain; to continue in a place; to abide fixed for a space of time; to stop; to stand still. [1913 Webster]
- She would command the hasty sun to stay. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Stay, I command you; stay and hear me first. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To continue in a state. [1913 Webster]
- The flames augment, and stay At their full height, then languish to decay. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To wait; to attend; to forbear to act. [1913 Webster]
- I 'll tell thee all my whole device When I am in my coach, which stays for us. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The father can not stay any longer for the fortune. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To dwell; to tarry; to linger. [1913 Webster]
- I must stay a little on one action. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist. [1913 Webster]
- I stay here on my bond. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon. --Isa. xxx. 12. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- Here my commission stays. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Naut.) To change tack, as a ship. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stay'
From: GCIDE
- Stay \Stay\, n. [Cf. OF. estai, F. ['e]tai support, and E. stay a rope to support a mast.]
- 1. That which serves as a prop; a support. "My only strength and stay." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Trees serve as so many stays for their vines. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Lord Liverpool is the single stay of this ministry. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- 2. pl. A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men. [1913 Webster]
- How the strait stays the slender waist constrain. --Gay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city. [1913 Webster]
- Make haste, and leave thy business and thy care; No mortal interest can be worth thy stay. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Embrace the hero and his stay implore. --Waller. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop. [1913 Webster]
- Made of sphere metal, never to decay Until his revolution was at stay. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a stay. --Hayward. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Hindrance; let; check. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- They were able to read good authors without any stay, if the book were not false. --Robynson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster]
- 6. Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety. [Obs.] "Not grudging that thy lust hath bounds and stays." --Herbert. [1913 Webster]
- The wisdom, stay, and moderation of the king. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- With prudent stay he long deferred The rough contention. --Philips. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Engin.) Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them. [1913 Webster]
- Stay bolt (Mech.), a bolt or short rod, connecting opposite plates, so as to prevent them from being bulged out when acted upon by a pressure which tends to force them apart, as in the leg of a steam boiler.
- Stay busk, a stiff piece of wood, steel, or whalebone, for the front support of a woman's stays. Cf. Busk.
- Stay rod, a rod which acts as a stay, particularly in a steam boiler. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stay'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abeyance,
- abide,
- abort,
- adhere,
- adjourn,
- advocate,
- afford support,
- afterthought,
- agglomerate,
- alpenstock,
- amnesty,
- anchor,
- arm,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- athletic supporter,
- await,
- back,
- back up,
- backbone,
- backing,
- backpedal,
- backwater,
- bandeau,
- bar,
- be still,
- bear,
- bear up,
- bearer,
- bearing rein,
- belay,
- bell,
- berth,
- bide,
- bide the issue,
- billet at,
- bind,
- bit,
- bivouac,
- block,
- block up,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- bolster,
- bolster up,
- bottom,
- bra,
- brace,
- bracer,
- bracket,
- brake,
- brassiere,
- break,
- breath,
- breather,
- breathing place,
- breathing space,
- breathing spell,
- breathing time,
- bring to,
- bring up short,
- bunch,
- bung,
- bunk,
- buoy up,
- bureaucratic delay,
- burrow,
- buttress,
- cable,
- caesura,
- camp,
- cancel,
- cane,
- carrier,
- carry,
- carry on,
- caulk,
- cease,
- cease not,
- cease-fire,
- cervix,
- chain,
- check,
- checkmate,
- checkrein,
- chink,
- chock,
- choke,
- choke off,
- choke up,
- cigarette break,
- clasp,
- cleave,
- clinch,
- cling,
- cling to,
- clip the wings,
- clog,
- clog up,
- clot,
- cluster,
- coagulate,
- coast,
- cocktail hour,
- coffee break,
- cohabit,
- cohere,
- colonize,
- column,
- come to anchor,
- confine,
- congeal,
- congest,
- conglomerate,
- constipate,
- continue,
- continue to be,
- cork,
- corselet,
- corset,
- countercheck,
- cover,
- cradle,
- crook,
- crutch,
- curb,
- curb bit,
- cushion,
- cut it out,
- cut short,
- cutoff,
- dally,
- dam,
- dam up,
- damper,
- dawdle,
- day off,
- dead stop,
- deadlock,
- debarment,
- decelerate,
- defeat time,
- defer,
- deferment,
- deferral,
- defy time,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- desist,
- detain,
- detention,
- deter,
- determent,
- deterrence,
- dillydally,
- discontinuance,
- discontinuation,
- discontinue,
- discourage,
- discouragement,
- domesticate,
- domicile,
- domiciliate,
- doorstop,
- doss down,
- double take,
- downtime,
- drag,
- drag on,
- drag out,
- drag sail,
- dragging,
- draw rein,
- drift anchor,
- drift sail,
- drogue,
- drop,
- drop anchor,
- drop it,
- dwell,
- ease off,
- ease up,
- embrace,
- end,
- endgame,
- ending,
- endure,
- enforced respite,
- ensconce,
- establish,
- establish residence,
- estoppel,
- exemption,
- exist,
- extend,
- fetter,
- fill,
- fill up,
- final whistle,
- foil,
- forbiddance,
- foreclosure,
- forestalling,
- forestay,
- foul,
- found,
- foundation garment,
- freeze,
- freeze to,
- fulcrum,
- full stop,
- gird,
- girdle,
- give over,
- give support,
- go along,
- go on,
- grasp,
- grinding halt,
- ground,
- grow together,
- gun,
- guy,
- guywire,
- halt,
- hamper,
- hang,
- hang about,
- hang around,
- hang fire,
- hang on,
- hang out,
- hang together,
- hang up,
- hang-up,
- happy hour,
- have done with,
- hesitation,
- hinder,
- hindrance,
- hive,
- hold,
- hold back,
- hold everything,
- hold in check,
- hold off,
- hold on,
- hold out,
- hold over,
- hold steady,
- hold together,
- hold up,
- hold your horses,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- holiday,
- hug,
- immunity,
- impede,
- impunity,
- indemnity,
- inhabit,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interrupt,
- interruption,
- interval,
- jam,
- jock,
- jockstrap,
- jog on,
- keep,
- keep afloat,
- keep back,
- keep going,
- keep house,
- keep on,
- keep quiet,
- keep up,
- knock it off,
- lag,
- lagging,
- lapse,
- last,
- last long,
- last out,
- lay aside,
- lay by,
- lay off,
- lay over,
- layoff,
- layover,
- leave off,
- lend support,
- let down,
- let up,
- letup,
- lie still,
- line,
- linger,
- live,
- live at,
- live on,
- live through,
- locate,
- lockout,
- lodge,
- logjam,
- loiter,
- lose ground,
- lose momentum,
- lose speed,
- lull,
- mainstay,
- maintain,
- maintainer,
- make late,
- mark time,
- martingale,
- mass,
- mast,
- moderate,
- moor,
- moratorium,
- move,
- neck,
- nest,
- never cease,
- nolle prosequi,
- non prosequitur,
- nonprosecution,
- not breathe,
- not stir,
- obstipate,
- obstruct,
- obstruction,
- obviation,
- occupy,
- pack,
- paperasserie,
- park,
- pause,
- pelham,
- people,
- perch,
- perdure,
- perennate,
- persist,
- pigeonhole,
- pillow,
- plug,
- plug up,
- populate,
- postpone,
- postponement,
- preclusion,
- predicate,
- prevail,
- prevent,
- prevention,
- procrastinate,
- prohibition,
- prolong,
- prop,
- prorogate,
- prorogue,
- protract,
- pull up,
- push aside,
- put aside,
- put off,
- put on ice,
- put paid to,
- quit,
- recess,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- reef,
- refrain,
- rein in,
- reinforce,
- reinforcement,
- reinforcer,
- relax,
- relinquish,
- relocate,
- remain,
- remain motionless,
- remission,
- remora,
- renounce,
- repose,
- reprieve,
- reserve,
- reside,
- respite,
- rest,
- resting place,
- retard,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- rigging,
- room,
- roost,
- rope,
- run,
- run on,
- scotch,
- scrub,
- sea anchor,
- secure,
- set,
- set aside,
- set back,
- set by,
- set up housekeeping,
- set up shop,
- settle,
- settle down,
- shackle,
- shelve,
- shift off,
- shore,
- shore up,
- shoulder,
- shroud,
- sit down,
- sit tight,
- sit up,
- sit up for,
- sit-down strike,
- slack off,
- slack up,
- slacken,
- sleep on,
- slog on,
- slow,
- slow down,
- slow up,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- snaffle,
- sojourn,
- sojournment,
- solidify,
- spell,
- spile,
- spine,
- spoke,
- sprit,
- squat,
- staff,
- stagger on,
- stalemate,
- stall,
- stanch,
- stand,
- stand fast,
- stand firm,
- stand over,
- stand still,
- stand-down,
- standing rigging,
- standoff,
- standstill,
- stave,
- stave off,
- stay at,
- stay of execution,
- stay on,
- stay over,
- stay put,
- stay up,
- stay up for,
- stayover,
- stays,
- stem,
- stem the tide,
- stench,
- stick,
- stick around,
- stick fast,
- stick together,
- stiffener,
- stillstand,
- stop,
- stop cold,
- stop dead,
- stop over,
- stop short,
- stop up,
- stop-off,
- stopover,
- stoppage,
- stopper,
- stopping,
- stopple,
- strengthen,
- strengthener,
- stretch out,
- strike,
- strike root,
- stuff,
- stuff up,
- stymie,
- subsidize,
- subsist,
- subvention,
- support,
- supporter,
- surcease,
- survive,
- suspend,
- suspension,
- sustain,
- sustainer,
- sweat,
- sweat it out,
- sweat out,
- table,
- take a recess,
- take hold of,
- take in sail,
- take residence at,
- take root,
- take time,
- take up residence,
- tarry,
- tea break,
- tenant,
- terminate,
- throttle down,
- thwart,
- tide over,
- tie-up,
- time lag,
- time out,
- trammel,
- tread water,
- truce,
- underbrace,
- undergird,
- underlie,
- underpin,
- underpinning,
- underset,
- upbear,
- uphold,
- upholder,
- upkeep,
- vacation,
- visit,
- wait,
- wait a minute,
- wait and see,
- wait for,
- wait on,
- wait up for,
- waive,
- walking stick,
- walkout,
- watch,
- watch and wait,
- wear,
- work stoppage
Words containing 'Stay'
- In stays,
- Stayed,
- Stayedly,
- Staying,
- stay at,
- stay off,
- stay on,
- stay over,
- stay up,
- stays,
- Funnel stay,
- Hove in stays,
- Preventer stay,
- Slack in stays,
- Spring stay,
- Stay bolt,
- Stay busk,
- Stay holes,
- Stay rod,
- Stay tackle,
- To heave in stays,
- To miss stays,
- To stay a mast,
- Triatic stay,
- stay away,
- stay fresh,
- stay in line,
- stay in place,
- stay of execution,
- stay put,
- stay together,
- staying power,
- stay-at-home