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Definition of 'Stave'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) stave
one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.

2.  stave
a stick, rod, pole, or the like.

3.  stave
a rung of a ladder, chair, etc.

4.  stave
a verse or stanza of a poem or song.

5.  stave
the alliterating sound in a line of verse, as the w-sound in
wind in the willows.

6. (v.t.) stave
to break in a stave or staves of (a cask or barrel) so as to release the wine, liquor, or other contents.

7.  stave
to break or crush (something) inward (often fol. by in).

8.  stave
to break (a hole) in, esp. in the hull of a boat.

9.  stave
to break to pieces; splinter; smash.

10.  stave
to furnish with a stave or staves.

11.  stave
to beat with a stave or staff.

12. (v.i.) stave
to become staved in, as a boat; break in or up.

13.  stave
to move along rapidly.

14.  stave
stave off,

15.  stave
to put, ward, or keep off, as by force or evasion.

16.  stave
to prevent in time; forestall:
to stave off bankruptcy.

Etymology: (1125–75; (n.) ME, back formation from staves ; (v.) der. of the n.)

Definition of 'Stave'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) staff, stave
(music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written

2. (noun) stave, lag
one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

3. (verb) rung, round, stave
a crosspiece between the legs of a chair

4. (verb) stave
furnish with staves
"stave a ladder"

5. (verb) stave, stave in
burst or force (a hole) into something

Definition of 'Stave'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Stave
one of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc

2. (noun) Stave
one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc

3. (noun) Stave
a metrical portion; a stanza; a staff

4. (noun) Stave
the five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff

5. (noun) Stave
to break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat

6. (noun) Stave
to push, as with a staff; -- with off

7. (noun) Stave
to delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project

8. (noun) Stave
to suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask

9. (noun) Stave
to furnish with staves or rundles

10. (noun) Stave
to render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run

11. (verb) Stave
to burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments

Translation of 'Stave'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: in music, a staff.
Afrikaans: staaf	Arabic: مُدَرَّج موسيقي	Bulgarian: петолиние
Brazilian: pauta	Czech: notová osnova	German: das Notensystem
Danish: fem nodelinier	Greek: πεντάγραμμο (μουσ.)	Estonian: noodijoonestik
Farsi: حامل	Finnish: nuottiviivasto	French: portée
Hebrew: מַקֵל	Hindi: तख्ता, डाडा, संगीत, छन्द	Croatian: crtovlje (muz.), strofa
Hungarian: a kottaöt vonala	Indonesian: bagian partitur	Icelandic: nótnastrengur
Italian: rigo, pentagramma	Japanese: 譜表	Korean: 보표
Lithuanian: penklinė	Latvian: nošu līnija	Malay: baluk
Dutch: notenbalk	Norwegian: fem notelinjer	Polish: takt
Portuguese: pauta	Romanian: portativ	Russian: нотный стан
Slovak: notová osnova	Slovenian: notnočrtovje	Serbian: notna linija
Swedish: notplan, notsystem	Thai: โน้ตเพลง	Turkish: porte
Taiwanese: 五線譜	Ukrainian: нотний стан	Urdu: موسیقی میں پانچ متوازی خط
Vietnamese: khuông nhạc	Chinese: 五线谱
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