Definitions for stale
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Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. stale(adj)

   lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age

   "stale bread"; "the beer was stale"

2. cold, stale, dusty, moth-eaten(verb)

   lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new

   "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news"

3. stale(verb)

   urinate, of cattle and horses

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1. Stale(noun)

   the stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake

   Etymology: [See Stale, a. & v. i.]

2. Stale(verb)

   vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer

   Etymology: [See Stale, a. & v. i.]

3. Stale(verb)

   not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread

   Etymology: [See Stale, a. & v. i.]

4. Stale(verb)

   having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed

   Etymology: [See Stale, a. & v. i.]

5. Stale(verb)

   worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common

   Etymology: [See Stale, a. & v. i.]

6. Stale(verb)

   to make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out

   Etymology: [See Stale, a. & v. i.]

7. Stale(adj)

   to make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle

   Etymology: [See Stale, a. & v. i.]

8. Stale(verb)

   that which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use

   Etymology: [See Stale, a. & v. i.]

9. Stale(verb)

   a prostitute

   Etymology: [See Stale, a. & v. i.]

10. Stale(verb)

    urine, esp. that of beasts

    Etymology: [See Stale, a. & v. i.]

11. Stale(verb)

    something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon

    Etymology: [See Stale, a. & v. i.]

12. Stale(verb)

    a stalking-horse

    Etymology: [See Stale, a. & v. i.]

13. Stale(verb)

    a stalemate

    Etymology: [See Stale, a. & v. i.]

14. Stale(verb)

    a laughingstock; a dupe

    Etymology: [See Stale, a. & v. i.]

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1. Stale

   Stale is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grębów, within Tarnobrzeg County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 9 kilometres west of Grębów, 6 km east of Tarnobrzeg, and 62 km north of the regional capital Rzeszów.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Stale

   stāl, adj. too long kept: tainted: vapid or tasteless from age, as beer: not new: worn out by age: decayed: no longer fresh, trite: in athletics, over-trained, hence unfit, as in 'gone stale.'—n. anything become stale: urine of cattle, &c.: (Shak.) a whore.—v.t. to render insipid, to make common.—v.i. to make water, as beasts.—adv. Stale′ly.—n. Stale′ness. [Prov. Eng. stale, conn. with Old Dut. stel, old. Skeat makes stale that which reminds one of the stable, tainted, &c.—Sw. stalla, to put into a stall, also to stale (as cattle)—Sw. stall, a stable.]

2. Stale

   stāl, n. something offered or exhibited as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose: (Spens.) a decoy, a gull: (Shak.) a dupe, laughing-stock.—n. Stall, a thief's assistant. [A.S. stalu, theft—stelan, to steal.]

3. Stale

   stāl, n. the handle of anything, a stalk. [A.S. stæl, stel, a stalk.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of stale in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of stale in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of stale in a Sentence

1. Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca:

   I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again.

2. Mehmet Murat ildan:

   The wise man is he who is not surprised when he finds stale tea in a beautiful teapot!

3. Vanessa Spinazola:

   They permit both the prosecution and the defense to try the case before evidence is stale, as more time lapses, it becomes increasingly difficult for the accused to prepare a meaningful defense.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.

5. New York:

   During a year when pale, male and stale men sitting in a dark room in Washington have tried to drive a wedge through us through hate and sexism and bigotry, we will march!

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