Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
stay (noun)1.
a large strong rope usually of wire used to support a mast
2.
- guy
transitive verb
1.
to secure upright with or as if with - stays
2.
intransitive verb
to incline (a mast) forward, aft, or to one side by the stays to go about - tack
intransitive verb
1.
to stop going forward - pause
2.
to stop doing something - cease
3.
to continue in a place or condition - remain stayed up all night went for a short vacation but stayed on for weeks stay put till I come back
4.
to stand firm
5.
to take up residence - lodge
6.
to keep even in a contest or rivalry - stay with the leaders
7.
to call a poker bet without raising
8.
transitive verb
obsolete to be in waiting or attendance
1.
to wait for - await
2.
to stick or remain with (as a race or trial of endurance) to the end - usually used in the phrase stay the course
3.
to remain during - stayed the whole time
4.
a) to stop or delay the proceeding or advance of by or as if by interposing an obstacle - halt
b) to check the course of (as a disease)
c) - allay pacify stayed tempers
d) to quiet the hunger of temporarily defer
1.
a) the action of halting the state of being stopped
b) a stopping or suspension of procedure or execution by judicial or executive order
2.
obsolete - self-control moderation
3.
a residence or sojourn in a place
4.
capacity for endurance
1.
one that serves as a prop - support
2.
a thin firm strip (as of plastic) used for stiffening a garment or part (as a shirt collar)
3.
a corset stiffened with bones - usually used in plural
transitive verb
1.
to provide physical or moral support for - sustain
2.
to fix on something as a foundation
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
stay (noun)1.
a temporary residing as another's guest
SYNONIMS:
sojourn, stay, tarryRELATED WORDS:
field trip, homestay, sleepover; layover, stop, stopover2.
the stopping of a process or activity
SYNONIMS:
arrest, arrestment, cease, cessation, check, close, closedown, closure, conclusion, cutoff, discontinuance, discontinuation, ending, expiration, finish, halt, lapse, offset, shutdown, shutoff, stay, stop, stoppage, surcease, terminationRELATED WORDS:
mop-up, phaseout; abeyance, break, interruption, layoff, letup, moratorium, pause, standstill, suspensionNEAR ANTONYMS:
extension, persistence, prolongation1.
to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time
SYNONIMS:
abide, dwell, hang around, remain, stick around, tarryRELATED WORDS:
await, hang on, hold on, wait; dally, dawdle, linger, loiter; outstay, overstayNEAR ANTONYMS:
abscond, book [], decamp, escape, evacuate, flee, fly, get out, run away, scat, scram, skip; abandon, desert, forsake, vacate2.
to bring (something) to a standstill
SYNONIMS:
arrest, bring up, catch, check, draw up, fetch up, hold up, pull up, stall, stay, still, stopRELATED WORDS:
baffle, balk, block, blockade, bottleneck, clog, dam, detain, hinder, hold, hold back, impede, obstruct, snag, stem; conclude, cut off, end, terminate; call, discontinue, suspend; choke off, rein (in), repress, squash, squelch, stanch ( staunch), stunt, suppress, turn backNEAR ANTONYMS:
carry on, continue, follow through (with), keep (on), keep up, persist, run on; advance, fare, go along, march, move, proceed, progress, wend; actuate, budge, drive, goad, impel, propel, push, spur, stir3.
to remain in place in readiness or expectation of something
SYNONIMS:
await, bide, hold on, stayRELATED WORDS:
hang around, linger, remain, stick around, tarry; stand by; anticipate, expect, watch (for)4.
to reside as a temporary guest
SYNONIMS:
crash, sojourn, stay, tarryRELATED WORDS:
come by, come over, drop by, drop in, run in, step in, stop (by); frequent, hang (around out), haunt; inhabit, occupyNEAR ANTONYMS:
abide, dwell, live, residea structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else
SYNONIMS:
brace, buttress, mount, mounting, prop, reinforcement, shore, spur, stay, underpinningRELATED WORDS:
shoring; column, pedestal, pilaster, pillar; arch, bolster, bracket, cantilever, girder; bearing; crutch, peg, post, stake, stanchion, stand, stilt, strut, truss; base, foundation, frameto hold up or serve as a foundation for
SYNONIMS:
bear, bolster, brace, buttress, carry, prop (up), shore (up), stay, sustain, undergird, underpin, upholdRELATED WORDS:
steady, truss, underlie