stake
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
Etymology: From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”).
Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake, Spanish estaca.
Inflected forms:
form: stakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: staking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: staked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: staked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
A sharpened stake strong Dryas found.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
pos: noun
tags: with-definite-article
examples: Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
However, the word "witch" came to be applied almost exclusively to women who [...] were usually old and ugly, and for this reason many unfortunate old ladies, whose only crimes were loneliness and a lack of beauty, went to the stake.
gloss: A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
pos: noun
examples: The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.
The French Government is Eurostar's majority shareholder, with the country's state-owned railway SNCF holding a 55% stake, while Belgian state operator SNCB has a 5% stake.
gloss: That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
pos: noun
tags: Mormonism
examples: Every city, or stake, including a chief town and surrounding towns, has its president, with two counselors; and this president has a high council of chosen men.
gloss: To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to stake vines or plants
gloss: To pierce or wound with a stake.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You see, I'd made a bargain with him to buy the horse for a hundred and twenty—a swinging price, but I always liked the horse. And what does he do but go and stake him—fly at a hedge with stakes in it, atop of a bank with a ditch before it.
“You ladies happen to notice what happened to this vampire? This just happened. Did you see who staked him?”
gloss: To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'll ſtake my Lamb that near the Fountain plays, / And from the Brink his dancing Shade ſurveys.
gloss: To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him.
His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started.
gloss: To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
pos: verb
examples: Any peer can participate in the mining process by staking coins in order to validate a new transaction. To become a miner, there are two options; you can stake your coins to be used by a trustworthy node […], or you can submit a full node to be selected as a miner.
Derived words: alestake
bougar-stakes
burn someone at the stake
corkscrew stake
drive a stake through its heart
grub-stake
grubstake
macaroni stake
maiden stake
merestake
pull up stakes
ridstake
stakebed
stake boat
stakebody
stakebuilding
stake-driver
Stakeford
stakehead
stakeholder
stakeholding
stakehole
stakelike
stakenet
stake of Zion
Stake Pool
stakewall
sweepstake
swoopstake
table stakes
torture stake
restake
stake a claim
stake one's life
stake out
stakeout
staker
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