stake
Kelime Anlamı :

1. kazık.
2. tic. pay, hisse: You'll have a stake in this company. Bu şirkette senin payın olacak. f.
3. menfaat.
4. umudunu bağlamak.
5. tehlikeye atmak.
6. çıkar.
7. hisse.
8. direk.
9. umudunu bağla.
10. dili kumarda para koymak.
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Tanımlar :
1. A piece of wood or metal pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a marker, fence pole, or tent peg.
2. A vertical post to which an offender is bound for execution by burning.
3. execution by burning. used with the: condemned to the stake.
4. A vertical post secured in a socket at the edge of a platform, as on a truck bed, to help retain the load.
5. mormon church A territorial division consisting of a group of wards under the jurisdiction of a president.
6. Sports & Games Money or property risked in a wager or gambling game. Often used in the plural. See Synonyms at bet.
7. Sports & Games The prize awarded the winner of a contest or race.
8. Sports & Games A race offering a prize to the winner, especially a horserace in which the prize consists of money contributed equally by the horse owners.
9. A share or an interest in an enterprise, especially a financial share.
10. personal interest or involvement: a stake in her children's future.
11. A grubstake.
12. to mark the location or limits of with or as if with stakes: stake out a claim.
13. to claim as one's own: staked out a place for herself in industry.
14. to fasten, secure, or support with a stake or stakes.
15. to tether or tie to a stake.
16. to gamble or risk; hazard.
17. to provide working capital for; finance.
18. stake out to assign (a police officer, for example) to an area to conduct surveillance.
19. stake out to keep under surveillance.
20. at stake at risk; in question.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. to fasten to a stake; tether; also, to impale.
2. to support with stakes; provide with supporting stakes or poles: as, to stake vines.
3. to defend, barricade, or bar with stakes or piles.
4. to divide or lay off and mark with stakes or posts: with out or off: as, to stake off a site for a school-house; to stake out oyster-beds.
5. to stretch, scrape, and smooth (skins) by friction against the blunt edge of a semicircular knife fixed to the top of a short beam or post set upright.
6. to wager; put at hazard or risk upon a future contingency; venture.
7. A stick of wood sharpened at one end and set in the ground, or prepared to be set in the ground, as part of a fence, as a boundary-mark, as a post to tether an animal to, or as a support for something, as a hedge, a vine, a tent, or a fishing-net.
8. specifically the post to which a person condemned to death by burning is bound: as, condemned to the stake; burned at the stake; also, a post to which a bear to be baited is tied.
9. in leather manufacturing, a post on which a skin is stretched for currying or graining.
10. A vertical bar fixed in a socket or in staples on the edge of the bed of a platform railway-car or of a vehicle, to secure the load from rolling off, or, when a loose substance, as gravel, etc., is carried, to hold in place boards which retain the load.
11. A small anvil used for working in thin metal, as by tinsmiths: it appears to be so called because stuck into the bench by a sharp vertical prop pointed at the end.
12. that which is placed at hazard as a wager; the sum of money or other valuable consideration which is deposited as a pledge or wager to be lost or won according to the issue of a contest or contingency.
13. the prize in a contest of strength, skill, speed, or the like.
14. an interest; something to gain or lose.
15. the state of being laid or pledged as a wager; the state of being at hazard or in peril: preceded by at: as, his honor is at stake.
16. the see or jurisdiction of a mormon bishop.
17. A middle english form of stack.
18. the ling.
19. the post or arm which carries the fixed or stationary jaw of a riveting-machine, and holds up the rivet against the pressure which upsets the metal and forms the head.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia