Definitions for stays
stays

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. corset, girdle, staysnoun

   a woman's close-fitting foundation garment

Wiktionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. staysnoun

   A corset.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Staysnoun

   Without singular.

   1. Boddice; a kind of stiff waistcoat made of whalebone, worn by ladies.2.Ropes in a ship to keep the mast from falling aft. All masts, topmasts, and flagstaves have stays, except the spritsail topmast: the mainmast, foremast, with the masts belonging to them, have also back stays, which help to keep the mast from pitching forward or overboard. John Harris

   They were come upon the stays, when one of the sailors descried a galley. Philip Sidney.

   3. Any support; any thing that keeps another extended.

   Weavers stretch your stays upon the west. Dryden.

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1. Stays

   Stays are ropes, wires, or rods on sailing vessels that run fore-and-aft along the centerline from the masts to the hull, deck, bowsprit, or to other masts which serve to stabilize the masts. On a ship with a single mast, stays that run aft are called backstays and stays that run forward are called forestays. Along with shrouds, they form the primary stabilization for the standing rigging. To "miss stays" is an unsuccessful attempt to tack.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. STAYS

   A sort of straight-jacket employed in reforming women.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. stays

   See Ordnance, Carriages for.

Matched Categories

1. • Foundation Garment

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'stays' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4071

Anagrams for stays »

1. sayst

How to pronounce stays?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of stays in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of stays in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of stays in a Sentence

1. Fred Frazier:

   To see a little girl running alone by herself, that’s when he got very concerned, and she was shivering and cold. she stays right where she was told to stay.

2. Hannah Arendt:

   It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

3. Justice Sonia Sotomayor:

   Claiming one emergency after another, the Government has recently sought stays in an unprecedented number of cases, it is hard to say what is more troubling.

4. Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers:

   All is flux, nothing stays still.

5. Matthew Messina:

   Somehow people have gotten this perception that what happens in the mouth stays in the mouth, kind of like the old Vegas ad,' What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,' and we know that's not true, what happens in the mouth doesn't stay in the mouth either, there's interrelations between the body, overall health and oral health.

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