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

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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Anagrams for stays »

1. sayst

How to pronounce stays?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say stays in sign language?

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. Hsu Wen-long:

   What you learn in your early years stays with you for a lifetime.

2. Jeff Landry:

   Google gets to pick winners and losers because the system is rigged in their favor, continuing down this road will kill online publishing, or Google will control who stays and who goes.

3. Georgia Ernie Els:

   I've been struggling all year with injuries, niggles here and there (but now) I can swing freely, hopefully, touch wood, it stays.

4. Guenther Oettinger:

   We are working so that Greece stays in the euro zone, on this basis I think an agreement will still be possible in the next eight days -- if necessary via a further meeting of government leaders.

5. Misako Tachi:

   It (the LDP) is the most stable of all. I'm not sure if a drastic change would do us any good, various parties are saying various things (on pensions), but the lack of concrete plans worries me. Looking at what they have achieved so far, I thought it best that the LDP stays in power.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

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
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=stays