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a datum that can be represented numerically
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stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" stay put (in a certain place); "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here!"; "Stick around and you will learn something!" bide: dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year" remain behind; "I had to stay at home and watch the children" stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!" persist: stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up" 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" 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" last out: hang on during a trial of endurance; "ride out the storm" arrest: 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" stop a judicial process; "The judge stayed the execution order" fasten with stays (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset) quell: overcome or allay; "quell my hunger"
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phase: any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected" degree: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?" a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience; "he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box" the theater as a profession (usually `the stage'); "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage" any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; "All the world's a stage"--Shakespeare; "it set the stage for peaceful negotiations" stagecoach: a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns; "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles" perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'" a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise" plan, organize, and carry out (an event); "the neighboring tribe staged an invasion" a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
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| starch |
stiffen with starch; "starch clothes" a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles
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| stature |
high level of respect gained by impressive development or achievement; "a man of great stature" (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot
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