(v. i.) To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
(v. i.) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.
(v. i.) To come or chance (upon).
(a.) Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alighting upon the final four songs recorded by Drake, he pressed play and began to make notes before setting about mixing them for this putative release.
(2) The promise of exclusive photos and an "official chatroom" doesn't exactly set our world alight – but White is also promising subscribers four 7" records, four 12" records and four new T-shirts a year.
(3) Others wrecked the villa interior, poured fuel on the floor and set it alight.
(4) Villas of government officials were set alight and gunfire erupted in several districts of the city.
(5) (An official report later concluded that one of the men had set the van alight, killed the other and then himself.)
(6) That expectation was realized, with passengers from the oldest age groups having the highest relative frequency of accidents and vehicles with three steps being involved in a disproportionately large share of boarding and alighting accidents.
(7) In the small hours of the previous morning, an attacker had forced open a shutter, broken a window and set the inside alight .
(8) "I could be an MP…" And it suddenly occurs to me that Gardiner might just have alighted on the perfect profession for his skills.
(9) In a running confrontation, both sides threw molotov cocktails, one of which set alight a makeshift barricade in the foyer.
(10) Didcot resident Steve Shadbolt told the Oxford Mail that he looked across at the power station and realised that one of the towers was alight: “It burnt so fiercely that it spread to the next one ... it was quite a blaze.” The energy secretary, Ed Davey, said: “First, I want to thank the emergency services who are at Didcot working to tackle the blaze.
(11) Some of these new converts have alighted upon the basic income as an answer to our fragmenting welfare state.
(12) Cars were set alight and there were unconfirmed reports of petrol bombs being thrown.
(13) Falun Gong groups overseas dispute that - and in 2011 a man set himself alight near the site of the car crash.
(14) Tens of thousands of hectares of forest have been alight for more than two months as a result of slash and burn – the fastest and quickest way to clear land for new plantations.
(15) Photograph: Guim “The men shouted as they walked through the station having alighted from the train a short time earlier.
(16) Brotherhood spokesmen denied responsibility for the fires, but the local people everywhere say that it was groups of Brothers who attacked the buildings and set them alight.
(17) The young Somali woman who set herself alight on Nauru – the second refugee in a week to do so – has been taken to Australia by air ambulance, but her situation remains critical.
(18) On Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel, the conservative commentator Sean Hannity recently alighted upon the case of Gordon Cook, a security manager from Merseyside, who used superglue to stick a loose crown into his gum because he was unable to find an NHS dentist.
(19) (" Setting a children's hospital alight is hitting the all time low.
(20) Bales acknowledged setting the bodies alight with a kerosene lantern.
Stay
Definition:
(n.) A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft stays; those which lead to the vessel's side are called backstays. See Illust. of Ship.
(v. i.) To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support.
(v. i.) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
(v. i.) To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully.
(v. i.) To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.
(v. i.) To hinde/; to delay; to detain; to keep back.
(v. i.) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.
(v. i.) To cause to cease; to put an end to.
(v. i.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler.
(v. i.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind.
(v. i.) To remain; to continue in a place; to abide fixed for a space of time; to stop; to stand still.
(v. i.) To continue in a state.
(v. i.) To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.
(v. i.) To dwell; to tarry; to linger.
(v. i.) To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.
(v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed.
(v. i.) To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well.
(v. i.) To change tack; as a ship.
(n.) That which serves as a prop; a support.
(n.) A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men.
(n.) Continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city.
(n.) Cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop.
(n.) Hindrance; let; check.
(n.) Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
(n.) Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.
Example Sentences:
(1) Overall length of stay found in this study (14.02 days) is considerably higher than Indian optimum.
(2) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(3) A total of 1,268 patients admitted to hospital wards were kept under surveillance by one observer throughout their stay in hospital.
(4) We are better off in.” Out campaigners have claimed that the NHS could be badly hit by a decision to stay in the EU.
(5) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
(6) In this way, we tried to find out how the patients experience the treatment and stay on the Unit, what is most helpful in solving their problems and what are, in their opinion, the direct gains of hospitalization.
(7) "If older people do not stay informed about the changes and take action, there is a danger that they will end up paying more unnecessarily."
(8) In Phase 2 (two minutes after injection) all parameters return to their control values ; except CVP which stays elevated.
(9) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(10) Read more After Monday’s launch at 7.30am (11.30pm GMT), the taikonauts will dock with the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, where they will spend about a month, testing systems and processes for space stays and refuelling, and doing scientific experiments.
(11) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
(12) Approximately 16,000 people were diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in 2012 but were not given the treatment they needed to stay alive and prevent the spread of the disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
(13) While ITV1's Harry Hill and the final series of BBC1's Gavin and Stacey will stay put, Sky1 did manage to secure US drama House, starring Hugh Laurie, from Channel Five, paying an estimated £500,000 an episode.
(14) After filming, he stayed on in the Middle East for several weeks to travel.
(15) Patients identified sources of stress associated with their ICU stay, yet most (76%) rated their ICU experience positively.
(16) To be faced with not being able to stay with or even be near their baby is inconceivable."
(17) Long-stay psychiatric in-patients in South Glamorgan were reviewed using the MRC Needs for Care assessment.
(18) Make Quinn stay with B613 I think it would be difficult to bring her back to the fold at Pope and Associates (unless they’re playing the long con and her infiltration of B613 is part of the plan), but her anger would be well utilized against her former coworkers.
(19) The majority of them were able to perceive a connection between their worsened skin condition and the acute psychosocial constellation during their brief stay at home.
(20) They’re staying home,” Cruz declared in his speech.