Definitions for stays
stays

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. corset, girdle, staysnoun

   a woman's close-fitting foundation garment

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. staysnoun

   A corset.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stays

   To remain in a particular place or position, or to continue to be in a specific state or condition. This term can also refer to stopping or halting progress, or resisting or withstanding something. In a legal context, it can mean the suspension or delay of a judicial proceeding or judgment.

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 WurdzRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. STAYS

   A sort of straight-jacket employed in reforming women.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   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. Stephen King:

   You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

2. Shinichi Niwa:

   Once dead, a body itself is often seen and treated as an object in the West, in Asia, there is a strong belief that one's spirit stays with the body and they are not separated.

3. Abdul Waheed:

   As a child you don't understand why this is happening, but it stays with you, and you get angry. The important thing is not to become the person they say you are.

4. Chief Executive Scott Sheffield:

   I personally think (Texas) shale oil will out survive LNG projects around the world, it'll survive new exploration projects, and they'll survive essentially all other shale plays in the U.S. in the Midland Basin, the world needs the Permian Basin. And so eventually supply-demand's going to reset. And the longer it stays lower, oil prices are going to bounce back even quicker.

5. Daimler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche:

   I'm just saying: If everything stays the way it is now, you have to bid farewell to the target of putting 1 million electric cars on Germany's roads by 2020.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=stays
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Stays
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=stays
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=stays
6. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=stays
7. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html