stay /st'e/
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stay
停留,逗留,制止,延緩,停止,依靠,支柱,支撐物,支索(vt.)制止,平息,延緩
資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]
Stay \Stay\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stayed}or {Staid}; 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.
Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the
one side, and the other on the other side. --Ex.
xvii. 12.
Sallows and reeds . . . for vineyards useful found
To stay thy vines. --Dryden.
2. 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,
and it has not staid his stomach for a minute. --Sir
W. Scott.
3. To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist
successfully.
She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor
bide the encounter of assailing eyes. --Shak.
4. To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to
stop; to hold.
Him backward overthrew and down him stayed With
their rude hands grisly grapplement. --Spenser.
All that may stay their minds from thinking that
true which they heartly wish were false. --Hooker.
5. To hinde?; to delay; to detain; to keep back.
Your ships are stayed at Venice. --Shak.
This business staid me in London almost a week.
--Evelyn.
I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that
appeared to me new. --Locke.
6. To remain for the purpose of; to wait for. ``I stay dinner
there.'' --Shak.
7. To cause to cease; to put an end to.
Stay your strife. --Shak.
For flattering planets seemed to say This child
should ills of ages stay. --Emerson.
8. (Engin.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a
flat sheet in a steam boiler.
9. (Naut.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of
the vessel shall be presented to the wind.
{To stay a mast} (Naut.), to incline it forward or aft, or to
one side, by the stays and backstays.
資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]
Stay \Stay\, n. [AS. st[ae]g, 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}.
{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.
資料來源(4): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]
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.
Trees serve as so many stays for their vines.
--Addison.
Lord Liverpool is the single stay of this ministry.
--Coleridge.
2. pl. A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material,
worn by women, and rarely by men.
How the strait stays the slender waist constrain.
--Gay.
3. Continuance in a place; abode for a space of time;
sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city.
Make haste, and leave thy business and thy care; No
mortal interest can be worth thy stay. --Dryden.
Embrace the hero and his stay implore. --Waller.
4. Cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop.
Made of sphere metal, never to decay Until his
revolution was at stay. --Milton.
Affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a stay.
--Hayward.
5. Hindrance; let; check. [Obs.]
They were able to read good authors without any
stay, if the book were not false. --Robynson
(more's
Utopia).
6. Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness;
sobriety. [Obs.] ``Not grudging that thy lust hath bounds
and stays.'' --Herbert.
The wisdom, stay, and moderation of the king.
--Bacon.
With prudent stay he long deferred The rough
contention. --Philips.
7. (Engin.) Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts
together, or stiffen them.
{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.
資料來源(5): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]
Stay \Stay\, 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.
She would command the hasty sun to stay. --Spenser.
Stay, I command you; stay and hear me first.
--Dryden.
I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the
embers that still burn. --Longfellow.
2. To continue in a state.
The flames augment, and stay At their full height,
then languish to decay. --Dryden.
3. To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.
I'll tell thee all my whole device When I am in my
coach, which stays for us. --Shak.
The father can not stay any longer for the fortune.
--Locke.
4. To dwell; to tarry; to linger.
I must stay a little on one action. --Dryden.
5. To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.
I stay here on my bond. --Shak.
Ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and
perverseness, and stay thereon. --Isa. xxx.
12.
6. To come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm
stayed. [Archaic]
Here my commission stays. --Shak.
7. To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays
well. [Colloq.]
8. (Naut.) To change tack; as a ship.
資料來源(6): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]
stay
n 1: 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"
2: 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"
3: 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}, {stop},
{stoppage}]
4: (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable
used as a support for a mast or spar
5: a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a
garment (e.g. a corset)
v 1: 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: {remain}, {rest}] [ant: {change}]
2: 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:
{stick}, {stick around}, {stay put}] [ant: {move}]
3: dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a
bit longer--the day is still young" [syn: {bide}, {abide}]
4: 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 on},
{continue}, {remain}]
5: remain behind; "I had to stay at home and watch the
children" [ant: {depart}]
6: stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!" [syn: {detain}, {delay}]
7: stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility
remained long after they made up" [syn: {persist}, {remain}]
8: a trial of endurance; "ride out the storm" [syn: {last out},
{ride out}, {outride}]
9: stop a judicial process; "The judge stayed the execution
order"
10: fasten with stays
11: overcome or allay; "quell my hunger" [syn: {quell}, {appease}]
資料來源(7): Internet Dictionary Project [english-german]
stay
bleiben[Verb]
資料來源(8): Internet Dictionary Project [english-latin]
stay.
palus
資料來源(9): Internet Dictionary Project [english-latin]
stay.
se teneo
資料來源(10): Internet Dictionary Project [english-portugue]
stay
ficar[Verb]
資料來源(11): Internet Dictionary Project [english-spanish]
stay
quedar