stake

Oznaczający (English)

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. 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. A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.

Verb

1. To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
2. To pierce or wound with a stake.
3. To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
4. 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.

Synonyms

post

bet

wager

pole

peg

picket

interest

stanchion

pale

pile

gamble

venture

risk

stick

staff

stakes

hazard

bar

shaft

rod

bet on

adventure

stave

spar

standard

prop

jeopardize

share

impale

game

stump

handle

back

🔙

ranging pole

strut

piles

pillar

pin

pledge

throw

tie

column

tree

🌳

lay

gage

punt

grubstake

ante

nail

hitch

paling

surveying rod

palisade

cane

attach

belay

dice

spike

band

investment

strap

infix

input

jeopardise

join

knot

🪢

lash

leg

🦵

ligate

locating

log

make bold

milestone

moor

mortgage

mount

nog

pawn

pawning

pecker

pedestal

penetrate

percentage

perforate

peril

pier

pierce

pike

portion

pretend

prick

prize

punch

👊

puncture

put on

rack

rail

ranking

ration

reeve

rig

round

scupper

secure

seriousness

shot

significance

sign on

slice

slur

sod

spile

split

stabilizer

stick on

stilt

string

🪢

stub

stud

support

supporter

tack

tether

tie down

tie rod

tie up

toggle

treenail

truss

try out

wedge

cippus

digging tool

empale

fence post

gamble on

lay a wager

wager on

financial capital

trenail

gambling

weight

trunnel

wooden pin

lash together

put money on something

supporting pillar

musical passage

brace strut

support stand

buckstay

support pillar

supporting block

supporting column

molding pin

place a bet

involvment

stand leg

supporting strut

strut rod

prop mainstay

support leg

support post

post column

grizzly bar

surveying stake

sand pin

wooden crowbar

good

👍

part

account

advantage

affix

allocation

allotment

bandage

baton

beanpole

be bold

belaying pin

benefit

be on

bind

bite

block

bollard

bombshell

bond

bore

bracing

bracket

brooch

bundle

catch

chance

🎲

charge

clasp

clinch

club

compromise

concern

contribution

crowbar

cut

dare

divvy

double crochet

double stitch

dowel

dress

👗

drill

emplacement

end

🔚

endanger

fasten

finance

fishing rod

fix

fixate

frame

frame up

frap

gird

go

hang on

importance

indent

indenture

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/steɪk/

Etymologia (English)

Inherited from średnioangielski: stake

Inherited from staroangielski: staca

Cognate with scots: stak

Cognate with fryzyjski saterlandzki: Stak

Cognate with zachodniofryzyjski: staak

Cognate with niderlandzki: staak

Cognate with dolnoniemiecki: Stake

Cognate with norweski: stake

In summary

From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), 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.