stay: kelime anlamı ve tanımları

To continue to be in a place or condition: stay home; stay calm.

To remain or sojourn as a guest or lodger: stayed at a motel.

To stop moving; halt.

To wait; pause.

To endure or persist: stayed with the original plan.

To keep up in a race or contest: tried to stay with the lead runner.

Games To meet a bet in poker without raising it.

To stand one's ground; remain firm.

Archaic To cease from a specified activity.

To stop or halt; check.

To postpone; delay.

To delay or stop the effect of (an order, for example) by legal action or mandate: stay a prisoner's execution.

To satisfy or appease temporarily: stayed his anger.

To remain during: stayed the week with my parents; stayed the duration of the game.

To wait for; await: "I will not stay thy questions. Let me go;/Or if thou follow me, do not believe/But I shall do thee mischief in the wood” ( Shakespeare).

The act of halting; check.

The act of coming to a halt.

A brief period of residence or visiting.

A suspension or postponement of a legal action or an execution: granted a stay to the prisoner's execution.

stay put To remain in a fixed or established position.

stay the course To hold out or persevere to the end of a race or challenge.

To brace, support, or prop up.

To strengthen or sustain mentally or spiritually.

To rest or fix on for support.

A support or brace.