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Stays vs Visits - What's the difference?

stays | visits |

As nouns the difference between stays and visits

is that stays is while visits is .

As verbs the difference between stays and visits

is that stays is (stay) while visits is (visit).

stays

English

Noun

(head)
  • (plurale tantum) A corset.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 502:
    • Her face was whiter than snow, and her heart was throbbing through her stays .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stay)

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    visits

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • *
    • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
  • * 1949 — , Article IV, sect. 65
    • Prisoners of war shall at all times be afforded reasonable facilities for consulting and obtaining copies of their accounts, which may likewise be inspected by the representatives of the Protecting Powers at the time of visits to the camp.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (visit)
  • * 1611 — , ii 1
    • Please you, sir,
    Do not omit the heavy offer of it:
    It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,
    It is a comforter.