Stay vs Pit - What's the difference?
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(nautical) A strong rope supporting a mast, and leading from the head of one mast down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
(chain-cable) The transverse piece in a link.
(nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
(nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.
(nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
* (Bible), (w) xvii. 12
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
* (Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)
To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
To hold the attention of.
To bear up under; to endure; to hold out against; to resist.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To wait for; await.
To rest; depend; rely.
* (w) 30:12, (w)
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To stop; come to a stand or standstill.
To come to an end; cease.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To dwell; linger; tarry; wait.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
To make a stand; stand.
To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end.
To remain in a particular place, especially for an indefinite time; sojourn; abide.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
* , chapter=5
, title= To wait; rest in patience or expectation.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
To wait as an attendant; give ceremonious or submissive attendance.
To continue to have a particular quality.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
(obsolete) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To cause to cease; to put an end to.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
* (Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)
To fasten or secure with stays.
A prop; a support.
* Milton
* Addison
* Coleridge
(archaic) A fastening for a garment; a hook; a clasp; anything to hang another thing on.
That which holds or restrains; obstacle; check; hindrance; restraint.
A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress.
* Milton
* Hayward
(archaic) A standstill; a state of rest; entire cessation of motion or progress.
A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn.
(nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
* Herbert
* Francis Bacon
* Philips
A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
(obsolete) Hindrance; let; check.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
Steep; ascending.
(of a roof) Steeply pitched.
Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
Steeply.
A hole in the ground.
(motor racing) An area at a motor racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
(music) A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
A mine.
(archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.
(trading) A trading pit.
Something particularly unpleasant.
The bottom part of.
(colloquial) Armpit, oxter.
(aviation) A luggage hold.
(countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
The grave, or underworld.
* Milton
* Bible, Job xxxiii. 18
An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
* John Locke
Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
To make pits in.
To put (a dog) into a pit for fighting.
To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
(motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
In transitive terms the difference between stay and pit
is that stay is to wait for; await while pit is to remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.As nouns the difference between stay and pit
is that stay is a strong rope supporting a mast, and leading from the head of one mast down to some other, or other part of the vessel while pit is a hole in the ground.As verbs the difference between stay and pit
is that stay is to incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays while pit is to make pits in.As an adjective stay
is steep; ascending.As an adverb stay
is steeply.stay
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The engineer insisted on using stays for the scaffolding.
Synonyms
*Derived terms
* backstay * bobstay * forestay * jackstay * mainstay * staylace * stayless * staymaker * stayman * staysail * stayship * triatic stayVerb
(en verb)- stay a mast
- to stay ship
Etymology 2
From (etyl) steyen, staien, from (etyl) estayer, . More at (l), (l). Sense of "remain, continue" may be due to later influence from (etyl) ester, , from the same Proto-Indo-European root above; however, derivation from this root is untenable based on linguistic and historical groundsWhitney, Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia , stay.. An alternative etymology derives (etyl) estaye, estaie, from Old (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Verb
(en verb)- Your ships are stay'd at Venice.
- This business staid me in London almost a week.
- I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new.
- Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side.
- Sallows and reedsfor vineyards useful found / To stay thy vines.
- all that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false
- She will not stay the siege of loving terms, / Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes.
- Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon.
- I stay here on my bond.
- That day the storm stayed .
- Here my commission stays .
- I must stay a little on one action.
- That horse stays well.
- She would command the hasty sun to stay .
- Stay , I command you; stay and hear me first.
- I stay a little longer, as one stays / To cover up the embers that still burn.
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- I'll tell thee all my whole device / When I am in my coach, which stays for us.
- The father cannot stay any longer for the fortune.
- The flames augment, and stay / At their full height, then languish to decay.
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- He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute.
- I stay dinner there.
- Stay your strife.
- For flattering planets seemed to say / This child should ills of ages stay .
- to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler
Derived terms
* bestay * forestay * forstay * gainstay * here to stay * offstay * onstay * outstay * overstay * stay-at-home * stay behind * stay-button * stayer * stay hungry * stay on * stay over * stay put * stay the course * stay up * * understay * unstay * unstayed * upstaySee also
* abide * belive * continue * dwell * live * remain * resideReferences
Etymology 3
From (etyl) *. See above.Noun
(en noun)- My only strength and stay .
- Trees serve as so many stays for their vines.
- Lord Liverpool is the single stay of this ministry.
- Made of sphere metal, never to decay / Until his revolution was at stay .
- Affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a stay .
- stand at a stay
- The governor granted a stay of execution.
- I hope you enjoyed your stay in Hawaii.
- Not grudging that thy lust hath bounds and stays .
- The wisdom, stay , and moderation of the king.
- With prudent stay he long deferred / The rough contention.
- Where are the stays for my collar?
- They were able to read good authors without any stay , if the book were not false.
Derived terms
* gay for the stay * staycationEtymology 4
From (etyl) , see (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l)Adjective
(en-adj)Adverb
(en-adv)Statistics
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic wordspit
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(wikipedia pit)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits' around two microns across. Such '''pits''' are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these ' pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
- Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained.
- He keepeth back his soul from the pit .
- as fiercely as two gamecocks in the pit
Derived terms
* armpit * money pit * pit-eye * pit stopVerb
(pitt)- Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.
- Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles?
- For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare (l).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(pitt)- One must pit a peach to make it ready for a pie.