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Stays   /steɪz/   Listen
Stays

noun
1.
A woman's close-fitting foundation garment.  Synonyms: corset, girdle.


Stay

verb
(past & past part. stayed or staid; pres. part. staying)
1.
Stay the same; remain in a certain state.  Synonyms: remain, rest.  "Rest assured" , "Stay alone" , "He remained unmoved by her tears" , "The bad weather continued for another week"
2.
Stay put (in a certain place).  Synonyms: stay put, stick, stick around.  "Stay put in the corner here!" , "Stick around and you will learn something!"
3.
Dwell.  Synonyms: abide, bide.  "Stay a bit longer--the day is still young"
4.
Continue in a place, position, or situation.  Synonyms: continue, remain, stay on.  "Stay with me, please" , "Despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year" , "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"
5.
Remain behind.
6.
Stop or halt.  Synonyms: delay, detain.
7.
Stay behind.  Synonyms: persist, remain.  "The hostility remained long after they made up"
8.
Hang on during a trial of endurance.  Synonyms: last out, outride, ride out.
9.
Stop a judicial process.
10.
Fasten with stays.
11.
Overcome or allay.  Synonyms: appease, quell.
noun
1.
Continuing or remaining in a place or state.  "A lengthy hospital stay" , "A four-month stay in bankruptcy court"
2.
The state of inactivity following an interruption.  Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stop, stoppage.  "Held them in check" , "During the halt he got some lunch" , "The momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow" , "He spent the entire stop in his seat"
3.
A judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted.
4.
A thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset).
5.
(nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar.



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"Stays" Quotes from Famous Books



... I will go; but never to return. You shall no more be haunted with this Fury. My lord, my lord, love will not always last, When urged with long unkindness and disdain: Take her again, whom you prefer to me; She stays but to be called. Poor cozened man! Let a feigned parting give her back your heart, Which a feigned love first got; for injured me, Though my just sense of wrongs forbid my stay, My duty shall be yours. To the dear pledges of our former love My tenderness and care shall be ...
— All for Love • John Dryden
... "we are stage managers, scenic artists, stage hands, costumers, modern mutation of the Greek chorus, stays and props for the weak and timid, brakes for the overbold—in fact, we are around to do any work that nobody else ...
— The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House • Laura Lee Hope
... I have told you, and no harm will come to him. But if the judge stays on here it's impossible to say what may happen. You ...
— The Simpkins Plot • George A. Birmingham
... last, Each tall and tapering mast Is swung into its place; Shrouds and stays Holding ...
— The Children's Own Longfellow • Henry W. Longfellow
... present course. . .both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the ...
— Kennedy's Inaugural Address


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