stay
英 [ste?]
美[ste]
- vi. 停留；堅(jiān)持；暫住；停下
- vt. 堅(jiān)持；暫住；抑制
- n. 逗留；停止；支柱
英英釋意
- 1. continuing or remaining in a place or state;
- "they had a nice stay in Paris"
- "a lengthy hospital stay"
- "a four-month stay in bankruptcy court"
- 2. a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted;
- "the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court"
- 3. the state of inactivity following an interruption;
- "the negotiations were in arrest"
- "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"
- 4. (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar
- 5. a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)