stake
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
- 2.
(croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
- 3.
A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.
- 4.
(with definite article)The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
- 5.
A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.
- 6.
That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
- 7.
A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
- 8.
(Mormonism)A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
to stake vines or plants
- 2.
(transitive)To pierce or wound with a stake.
- 3.
(transitive)To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
Đồng nghĩa: bet, hazard, wager
- 4.
(transitive)To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him.
His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started.
- 5.
(cryptocurrencies) To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
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ine-pro From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (pin, tack, stake), from *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô (stake), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (stake).