(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.
Sway
Definition:
(v. i.) To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.
(v. i.) To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide.
(v. i.) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion.
(v. i.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
(v. i.) To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
(v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
(v. i.) To have weight or influence.
(v. i.) To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
(n.) The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.
(n.) Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires.
(n.) Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
(n.) Rule; dominion; control.
(n.) A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
Example Sentences:
(1) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(2) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(3) The influence of vestibular dysfunction upon the vestibulospinal reflex (VSR) in two common peripheral syndromes was investigated by two types of posturographic examination: "static" posturography, recording and analyzing the postural sway in stance, and "kinetic" posturography, recording the stepping in place test.
(4) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
(5) Few in Moscow are likely to be swayed by that explanation, however.
(6) His balancing pole swayed uncontrollably, nearly tapping the sides of his feet.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump ‘sways malevolently’ behind Hillary Clinton Instead, he began the night by assembling a group of women in a press conference to revisit alleged sexual assaults by Bill Clinton, before confronting his opponent hardest on her private email server.
(8) Diane Abbott , part of Ed Miliband's senior team, has accused Labour of being swayed by populist Tory attacks on immigration instead of standing up for diversity.
(9) In analogy to tip-toeing movements, it is concluded that the coactivation pattern is typical for stance conditions with a restricted area of support in order to reduce body sway.
(10) In these phases, it was necessary to compensate for sway induced by body inertia.
(11) If any donor held such sway over the Tories as Unite has over Labour, there would deservedly be an outcry.
(12) A sine wave current stimulus, applied between electrodes placed about one ear and an indifferent electrode, produced a cyclical sway predominantly in the coronal plane.
(13) When we meet him again in the film, he’s still working at the police station, still able to be swayed by a good slice of pizza.
(14) However, an important relationship between sway and falls was revealed.
(15) Despite spending a record amount of money to sway the mid-term US elections, environmental groups and high-profile donors failed to avert a sweeping Republican victory last week, in which candidates opposing the regulation of greenhouse gases and championing the expansion of tar sands pipelines won big.
(16) (c) Motion aftereffect had no direct and immediate influence on sway path, but rather a latent and long-term effect.
(17) The results showed unstable body sway in the condition with eyes closed until at least 4 months after the operation.
(18) On the other hand, information on the direction of the expected body sway given in the visual fixation condition resulted in a considerable and approximately equal decrease of the two components (by 70-80 percent).
(19) Neuropsychologic and postural sway test performance improved following Ca(++)-EDTA chelation in a bridge worker with persistent central nervous system (CNS) symptoms 2 years after an episode of subacute lead intoxication.
(20) Sway activity was found to be significantly higher in the CCI group as compared with that of the normal controls.