stake

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

pieu

piquet

poteau

enjeu

jalon

mise

parier

échalas

intérêt

risquer

miser

tuteur

gaule

perche

oser

pal

pari

participation

arbre

🌳

jeu

pile

plate

provoquer

cippe

mettre en jeu

ose

oser entreprendre

affronter

tuteurer

aventurer

barre

bâton

bûcher

compromettre

coucher

couper

courrier

crampon

dos

🔙

empaler

éviter

fiche

forer

intéresser

jouer

mettre en danger

percer

pie

Synonymes

post

bet

wager

pole

peg

picket

interest

stanchion

pale

venture

pile

gamble

risk

stick

stakes

shaft

staff

hazard

bar

adventure

rod

bet on

stave

spar

share

standard

prop

stump

jeopardize

impale

handle

game

back

🔙

spike

band

dice

attach

punt

pin

ante

piles

pledge

column

palisade

nail

pillar

paling

belay

investment

hitch

Traductions

Pfahl

paal

estaca

estaca

poste

palo

staak

pal

estacar

estaca

vara

Einsatz

stanga

apuesta

Pflock

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/steɪk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: stake

Hérité de ancien anglais: staca

Appartenant à écossais: stak

Appartenant à saterlandais: Stak

Appartenant à frison occidental: staak

Appartenant à néerlandais: staak

Appartenant à bas-allemand: Stake

Appartenant à norvégien: 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.