stake

(Anglès)

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.
2. 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.
5. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
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.

Verb

1. (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
2. (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
3. (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
4. (transitive) To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
5. To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/steɪk/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: stake

Heretat de anglès antic: staca

Cognat amb escocès: stak

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: Stak

Cognat amb frisó occidental: staak

Cognat amb neerlandès: staak

Cognat amb baix alemany: Stake

Cognat amb noruec: stake

In summary

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.

Conceptes

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estaca

barra

vara

apostar

participació

interès

muntant

foradar

bastó

empalar

aposta

atrevir-se

tac

juguesca

gosar

Sinònims

post

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wager

pole

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picket

interest

stanchion

pale

venture

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gamble

risk

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shaft

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spar

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standard

prop

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impale

handle

game

back

🔙

spike

band

dice

attach

punt

pin

ante

piles

pledge

column

palisade

nail

pillar

paling

belay

investment

hitch

Traduccions

pieu

Pfahl

paal

estaca

piquet

estaca

poteau

enjeu

palo

poste

staak

estacar

mise

Pflock

Einsatz