Street vs Stay - What's the difference?

As a proper noun street

is .

As a noun stay is

(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 or stay can be a prop; a support.

As a verb stay is

(nautical) to incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays or stay can be to prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.

As an adjective stay is

steep; ascending.

As an adverb stay is

steeply.

street

English

(wikipedia street)

Alternative forms

* streete

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.

Walk down the street .

A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.

The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.

The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.

(slang) Street talk or slang.

* 2008 , Andrew Fleming and Pam Brady, Hamlet 2 , Focus Features

Toaster is street for guns.

(figuratively) A great distance.

He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.

* 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]

England were once again static in their few attacks, only Tuilagi's bullocking runs offering any threat, Flood reduced to aiming a long-range drop-goal pit which missed by a street .

(poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.

Illicit, contraband, especially of a drug

I got some pot cheap on the street .

Usage notes

In the generical sense of "a road", the term is often used interchangeably with road, avenue, and other similar terms. In the English language, in its narrow usage street specifically means a paved route within a settlement (generally city or town), reflecting the etymology, while a road is a route between two settlements. Further, in many American cities laid out on a grid (notably Manhattan, New York City) streets are contrasted with avenues and run perpendicular to each other, with avenues frequently wider and longer than streets. In the sense of "a road", the prepositions in and on have distinct meanings when used with street, with "on the street" having idiomatic meaning in some dialects. In general for thoroughfares, "in" means "within the bounds of", while "on" means "on the surface of, especially traveling or lying", used relatively interchangeably ("don’t step in the road without looking", "I met her when walking on the road"). By contrast, "living on the street" means to be living an insecure life, often homeless or a criminal. Further, to "hear something on the street" means to learn through rumor, also phrased as "word on the street is...".

Hyponyms

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Derived terms

* streetcar * streetcorner * streeted * streetfighter * streetlamp * streetlife * streetlight * streetscape * streetseller * streetwalker * streetward * streetwear * streetwise * streety * back street * civvy street * easy street * from the streets * high street * man on the street * one-way street * side street * street address * street art * street corner, * street cred, street credibility * street drug * street elbow * street food * street furniture * street hockey * street map * street market * street name * street racing * street smarts * street sweeper * street team * street urchin * take to the streets * two-way street * word on the street * Bay Street * Downing Street * Fleet Street * Harley Street * Lombard Street * Main Street * Queer Street * Threadneedle Street * Wall Street

Adjective

(en adjective)

(slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.

* 2003 , Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, James P. Baen, Mad Maudlin

Eric had to admit that she looked street —upscale street, but still street. Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots.

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stay

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(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.

The engineer insisted on using stays for the scaffolding.

(chain-cable) The transverse piece in a link.

Synonyms

Derived terms

* backstay * bobstay * forestay * jackstay * mainstay * staylace * stayless * staymaker * stayman * staysail * stayship * triatic stay

Verb

(en verb)

(nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.

stay a mast

(nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.

to stay ship

(nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a 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)

To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.

To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

Your ships are stay'd at Venice.

* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

This business staid me in London almost a week.

* (John Locke) (1632-1705)

I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new.

* (Bible), (w) xvii. 12

Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Sallows and reedsfor vineyards useful found / To stay thy vines.

To restrain; withhold; check; stop.

* (Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)

all that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false

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)

She will not stay the siege of loving terms, / Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes.

To wait for; await.

To rest; depend; rely.

* (w) 30:12, (w)

Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

I stay here on my bond.

To stop; come to a stand or standstill.

To come to an end; cease.

That day the storm stayed .

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

Here my commission stays .

To dwell; linger; tarry; wait.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

I must stay a little on one action.

To make a stand; stand.

To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end.

That horse stays well.

To remain in a particular place, especially for an indefinite time; sojourn; abide.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

She would command the hasty sun to stay .

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Stay , I command you; stay and hear me first.

* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)

I stay a little longer, as one stays / To cover up the embers that still burn.

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To wait; rest in patience or expectation.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

I'll tell thee all my whole device / When I am in my coach, which stays for us.

* (John Locke) (1632-1705)

The father cannot stay any longer for the fortune.

To wait as an attendant; give ceremonious or submissive attendance.

To continue to have a particular quality.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

The flames augment, and stay / At their full height, then languish to decay.

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To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.

* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute.

(obsolete) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

I stay dinner there.

To cause to cease; to put an end to.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

Stay your strife.

* (Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)

For flattering planets seemed to say / This child should ills of ages stay .

To fasten or secure with stays.

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 * upstay

References

Etymology 3

From (etyl) *. See above.

Noun

(en noun)

A prop; a support.

* Milton

My only strength and stay .

* Addison

Trees serve as so many stays for their vines.

* Coleridge

Lord Liverpool is the single stay of this ministry.

(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

Made of sphere metal, never to decay / Until his revolution was at stay .

* Hayward

Affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a stay .

(archaic) A standstill; a state of rest; entire cessation of motion or progress.

stand at a stay

A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.

The governor granted a stay of execution.

A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.

Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn.

I hope you enjoyed your stay in Hawaii.

(nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.

Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.

* Herbert

Not grudging that thy lust hath bounds and stays .

* Francis Bacon

The wisdom, stay , and moderation of the king.

* Philips

With prudent stay he long deferred / The rough contention.

A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.

Where are the stays for my collar?

(obsolete) Hindrance; let; check.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

They were able to read good authors without any stay , if the book were not false.

Derived terms

* gay for the stay * staycation

Etymology 4

From (etyl) , see (l).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l), (l)

Adjective

(en-adj)

Steep; ascending.

(of a roof) Steeply pitched.

Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.

Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.

Adverb

(en-adv)

Steeply.

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