stay
persist
remain
rem
remainder
keep up
keep back
keep out
stagnate
leftover
stationariness
unstayed
retain
fixedness
immobility
remaining
desert
withhold
press on
unmove
stationary
perpetual
forget
relict
leave
buoy up
buoy
carry through
unabatement
overleave
hold
stick
hold on
endure
overstay
impound
stay behind
leavable
hang a leg
run adrift
antihiatic
keep away
pull round
pull through
stick around
lingeringly
come through
remove
absent
rest
survive
make it
onward
forestall
hove
reserve
preclude
foreclose
prevent
truck
forbid
steadiness
carry on
noncontinuation
stay put
won
unabating
reversed
restant
stilly
stay on
in the bottom of the bag
stiff
continuing
loiter
go on
stayable
run on
abiding
distance
hold up
keep going
soldier on
co-enduring
throw out
dwell
⠆⠓
keep at
git along
tick on
march on
sedentary
unreceding
nonending
hot on someone's heels
rem
remainder
leftover
unstayed
stationary
perpetual
relict
leavable
antihiatic
unabating
reversed
restant
stiff
stayable
abiding
co-enduring
sedentary
unreceding
nonending
hot on someone's heels
absent
lingeringly
stilly
stationariness
fixedness
immobility
remaining
unabatement
stay
steadiness
noncontinuation
continuing
stay
persist
remain
keep up
keep back
keep out
stagnate
retain
desert
withhold
press on
unmove
forget
leave
buoy up
buoy
carry through
overleave
hold
stick
hold on
endure
overstay
impound
stay behind
hang a leg
run adrift
keep away
pull round
pull through
stick around
come through
remove
absent
rest
survive
make it
onward
forestall
hove
reserve
preclude
foreclose
prevent
truck
forbid
carry on
stay put
won
stay on
loiter
go on
run on
distance
hold up
keep going
soldier on
throw out
dwell
keep at
tick on
march on
verb
- remain behind
- stay behind
- stay put (in a certain place)
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- dwell
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- stop or halt
- hang on during a trial of endurance
- stop a judicial process
- fasten with stays
- overcome or allay
noun
- continuing or remaining in a place or state
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted
- a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)
- (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar
adj
noun
adj
verb
noun
- Excess stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.
- The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend without producing a negative result. If n (dividend) and d (divisor) are integers, then n can always be expressed in the form n = dq + r, where q (quotient) and r (remainder) are also integers and 0 ≤ r < d.
- An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined
- A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed.
- The number left over after a simple subtraction
noun
adj
noun
verb
- leave behind unintentionally
- go away from a place
- go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness
- act or be so as to become in a specified state
- leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking
- move out of or depart from
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- produce as a result or residue
- remove oneself from an association with or participation in
- put into the care or protection of someone
- leave or give by will after one's death
- have left or have as a remainder
- be survived by after one's death
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
noun
verb
- keep from departing
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- organize or be responsible for
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- contain or hold; have within
- have room for; hold without crowding
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- support or hold in a certain manner
- be valid, applicable, or true
- assert or affirm
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- protect against a challenge or attack
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- hold the attention of
- remain committed to
- resist or confront with resistance
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- stop dealing with
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- aim, point, or direct
- declare to be
- be in accord; be in agreement
- keep from exhaling or expelling
noun
- the act of grasping
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- time during which some action is awaited
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- a stronghold
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
verb
- To persist.
- To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- To perform (a landing) perfectly.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- To stab.
- To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To propagate plants by cuttings.
- To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- To jam; to stop moving.
- To furnish or set with sticks.
- To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
adj
noun
- A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- The clarinet.
- Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- General hitting ability.
- A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- The short whip carried by a jockey.
- A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- A handgun.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Corporal punishment; beatings.
- The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- The traction of tires on the road surface.
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- Criticism or ridicule.
- A memory stick.
- A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward. Compare carrot.)
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
verb
verb
- stay away or leave
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- remove from a position or an office
- dispose of
- cause to leave
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- get rid of something abstract
noun
verb
- To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To stay, remain, be situated.
- To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- To rely or depend on.
- To be or to put into a state of rest.
- To lean, lie, or lay.
- To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- To sleep; slumber.
- To come to a pause or an end; end.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- To lie dormant.
noun
- A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- Absence of motion.
- Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- A final position after death.
- A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- That which remains.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
verb
- To keep back; to retain.
- To book in advance; to make a reservation.
- To keep in store for future or special use.
noun
- A reserve price in an auction.
- Wine held back and aged before being sold.
- A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
- Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.
- The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
- A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
- A resist.
- Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
- A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
- In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
- A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
- A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US reservation.)
- Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
- A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
- A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
verb
- To persist, to endure.
- To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
- To run over or through a tackler in American football.
- To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
- To travel, to proceed.
- To trade, exchange; barter.
- To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
- To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- To drive a truck.
- To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
- To convey by truck.
- To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
- To deceive; cheat; defraud.
noun
- Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
- Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
- A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
- A lorry with a closed or covered carriage.
- The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
- The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].
- The ball on top of a flagpole.
- Dirt or other messiness.
- A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods.
- A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods
- A platform with wheels or casters.
- Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
- On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
verb
- To continue or proceed as before.
- To act or behave; especially to misbehave so as to attract attention.
- To talk continuously about, often in an excessively excited way
- To continue, maintain or pursue (:an activity or enterprise)
- To have an illicit sexual or flirtatious relationship.
- To take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, rather than check it.
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adj
- Keeping upright.
- Of a shot: landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
- Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
- Dead, deceased.
- Erect.
- Inflexible; rigid.
- Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
- Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
- Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
- Harsh, severe.
- Potent.
- Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
- Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
- Of an equation: for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
adv
noun
- Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
- A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
- A customer who does not leave a tip.
- A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
- A cadaver; a dead person.
- Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
- A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
- A flop; a commercial failure.
- An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
verb
noun
verb
- To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.
- To lose interest in a specific issue.
- To move away (from) someone or something.
noun
- Remoteness of place; a remote place.
- The space measured back from the winning-post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in the final heat.
- A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
- Length or interval of time.
- The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
- A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
- The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- The entire amount of progress to an objective.
- Remoteness in succession or relation.
- The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
verb
verb
- To outdistance; to leave behind.
- To offer an idea for consideration.
- To dismiss or expel someone from any longer performing duty or attending somewhere.
- To produce in a haphazard fashion.
- To emit.
- To cause or experience debilitating muscle or joint pain in (a body part).
- To put into a state of confusion.
- To cause to project.
- To utter carelessly.
- To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away.
verb
- To abide; to remain; to continue.
- To live; to reside.
- To be in a given state.
- To linger on a particular thought, idea, etc.; to remain fixated on something.
noun
- In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
- A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
- A planned delay in a timed control program.
- A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
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