What's the difference between stade and stale?

Stade


Definition:

  • (n.) A stadium.
  • (n.) A landing place or wharf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) February 2015: Vinci, the French company that oversees venues including the Stade de France, named as the stadium operator.
  • (2) A force of 110 heavily armed officers, led by the elite tactical unit Recherche, Assistance, Intervention, Dissuasion (Raid), launched an assault on a third‑storey flat at 8 rue Corbillon, a few doors down from a primary school and a 15-minute walk from the Stade de France.
  • (3) Dias was killed on the spot, the sole victim of the Stade de France blasts.
  • (4) The Arsenal manager painted a vibrant picture of southern passion and of the atmosphere that it generates at the Stade Vélodrome.
  • (5) At the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, one stop from the Gare du Nord station that will welcome British fans, Didier Deschamps’ exciting side will attempt to pull the country out of the “spiral of negativity” that organisers say has blighted preparations in the opening game against Romania.
  • (6) He has already scored a hat-trick at Monaco's Stade Louis II ground in helping Atlético beat Chelsea 4-1 in the Uefa Super Cup last August.
  • (7) If the term psychopathology could be considered identical to psychiatric semiology, the words signs and symptoms go above the descriptive stade: the greek name sumptôma contains sun (with) and piptein (appear), while the word sign is an intellectual deduction of observed symptoms.
  • (8) The absence of remote metastases was verified by X-ray examinations of the skeleton and bone scintigrams, and stades were divided by means of lymphography.
  • (9) The match on Saturday between arch-rivals Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique Marseille at the Stade de France had been deemed a high-risk event and a first test for organisers of security measures required for Euro 2016.
  • (10) Chelsea have finally confirmed the arrival of Radamel Falcao from Monaco on a season-long loan with the Croatia international midfielder, Mario Pasalic, moving in the opposite direction to spend the forthcoming campaign at Stade Louis II.
  • (11) The French public prosecutor, François Molins, revealed on Saturday that the 26-year-old had been charged with terrorism offences after telling investigators he was supposed to blow himself up at the Stade de France, where President François Hollande was watching France play Germany, but backed out at the last minute.
  • (12) The Spanish side had won 1-0 at the Stade Vélodrome, but Michy Batshuayi levelled the tie just before half-time.
  • (13) 52 patients with diabetic retinopathy stade III or IV (after Thiel) received on both eyes a photocoagulation treatment.
  • (14) Defour’s status at his former club fell to pariah and caused a graphic banner to be unfurled when he returned to the Stade Maurice Dufrasne in Anderlecht colours.
  • (15) These modifications are the more often present in stade 0 (normal radiologic aspect) and do not increase with radiological evolution (stades I, II, III).
  • (16) Or to Marseille’s Stade Velodrome, into which he carried the colours of Paris Saint-Germain.
  • (17) Angio-immunoblastic lymphadenopathy, which has been recently individualized, is seen clinically as a stade III or IV haematosarcoma.
  • (18) This examination permit a knowledge of the in situ stades and permit to make adapted surgical treatment.
  • (19) I only allow myself to think what it would be like if we were playing in a full house at the Stade de France,” Coleman says.
  • (20) Diarra lost his cousin Asta Diakité among the more than 130 people killed in Friday’s attacks across the French capital while the former Arsenal and Chelsea midfielder was playing for his country at the Stade de France.

Stale


Definition:

  • (n.) The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
  • (v. i.) Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.
  • (v. i.) Not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread.
  • (v. i.) Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed.
  • (v. i.) Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common.
  • (v. t.) To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.
  • (a.) To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle.
  • (v. i.) That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use.
  • (v. i.) A prostitute.
  • (v. i.) Urine, esp. that of beasts.
  • (v. t.) Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.
  • (v. t.) A stalking-horse.
  • (v. t.) A stalemate.
  • (v. t.) A laughingstock; a dupe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
  • (2) That rock-star treatment then gets paid off with stale one-liners from the previous decade that sound like they were organized by shuffling notecards.
  • (3) Inside the carriage the temperature was stifling, the stench of unwashed bodies and stale urine overwhelming.
  • (4) In the first comments from Epstein’s representatives since the Guardian revealed on Friday that the prince had been named in a Florida court motion, an attorney for the disgraced financier said: “These are stale, rehashed allegations that lawyers are now attempting to repackage and spice up by adding the names of prominent people.” Virginia Roberts, who says she was 17 when she first met the Duke of York in London, claims she was forced to have sexual contact with him by Epstein, in London, New York and on his private island in the Caribbean during an “orgy”.
  • (5) Though the Bond series was in anything but trouble before Mendes’ arrival – and Craig’s – there was the sense of a certain amount of staleness towards the end of Pierce Brosnan’s run.
  • (6) The PassivHaus pioneers have focused on improving insulation, providing far better air-tightness and warming incoming air in winter, with the hotter stale air extracted from the house.
  • (7) Male, pale and stale is the epithet often used to describe the makeup of a charity board.
  • (8) The abortifacient property seems to decrease as the fruit becomes stale or ripe.
  • (9) He knew all about unconscious bias, was attuned to issues of diversity and was passionate about changing middle management composition which he said was “too male, stale and pale”.
  • (10) He resolutely refused to sit on the fence, and staleness, caused by watching stream upon stream of bad movies as well as good ones, never set in.
  • (11) Stale, flat and, alas, rapidly becoming unprofitable...” “What was he like as a person?” asked Dalgliesh.
  • (12) If you’re not bothered about instructions in another language, misprinted labels or biscuits that may be several months past their peak quality – but not stale – you can stock up for a fraction of the price you might pay in a regular shop.
  • (13) The measure of humidity, of peroxides and of the staleness of crumb are favourable for a good conservation.
  • (14) Overhead lights attached to ripped-out electrical wires hang suspended in the stale air and fading wallpaper peels off the walls like dead skin.
  • (15) For every 10 party hacks there were one or two sublime dissidents or innovators – Polanski and Wajda in Poland, Jancsó in Hungary, Dušan Makavejev in Yugoslavia – and we shouldn't throw out all these beautiful babies with the stale red bath water.
  • (16) Teams such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile and Algeria blew fresh air through the stale halls of international football's establishment with their teamwork and counter attacking flair.
  • (17) Northern Irish businesses are now able to trade across Europe, more people from across Europe have settled here and have provided a fresh perspective from the stale old sectarian divisions that Northern Ireland has been cursed with.
  • (18) This is welcome, as we believe that we offer a real alternative to the politics of austerity and the stale dogma of the Westminster parties.
  • (19) Americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions, too often Washington responded with the same stale mindset that led to failed policies like Obamacare.
  • (20) He should leave behind stale orthodoxies and trust his instinct that change is essential.

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