stale

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.

   “Near-synonyms: gone bad, spoiled; see also Thesaurus:rotten”

2. sıfat No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.

   “Better is...be it new or stale, A harmelesse lie, than a harmefull true tale.”

3. sıfat Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.

   “In most states, you can be ticketed for failing to clear the intersection, even if you are hemmed in by traffic. One good clue to a stale green light is the pedestrian signal.”

4. sıfat Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.

   “a stale affidavit”

5. sıfat Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.

   “By this means the [horse's] legs are not made more stale than necessary.”

6. sıfat Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.

   “Stale cheque,...a cheque which has remained unpaid for some considerable time.”

7. sıfat Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.

   “The bug was found to be caused by stale data in the cache.”

8. sıfat No longer nubile or suitable for marriage; past one's prime.

   “Near-synonyms: over the hill; see also Thesaurus:elderly”

9. sıfat Clear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong.

   “Particular care must be taken that the stale beer in which the isinglass is dissolved be perfectly clear and stale.”

10. sıfat Fallow, in reference to land.

    “Lime would do very little or no good on stale ploughed lands.”

11. isim Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.

    “I went to Riggs's batty-cake shop, and asked 'em for a penneth of the cheapest and nicest stales, that were all but blue-mouldy, but not quite.”

12. fiil To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.

    “Ile goe tell all the Argument of his Play aforehand, and so stale his Inuention to the Auditory before it come foorth.”

13. fiil To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.

    “They have got so much of Christ as to be staled of his company.”

14. fiil To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.

    “The Drink from that Time flattens and stales.”

15. fiil To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer).

    “Stalyn, or make stale drynke, defeco.”

16. isim A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.)

    “In Case your Cask is a Butt,...have ready boiling...Water, which put in, and, with a long Stale and a little Birch fastened to its End, scrub the Bottom.”

17. isim One of the posts or uprights of a ladder.

    “Stales, the staves, or risings of a ladder, or the staves of a rack in a stable.”

18. isim One of the rungs on a ladder.

    “Ash was used for stales (ladder rungs).”

19. isim The stem of a plant.
20. isim The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc.

    “The Surgians cut of the stale of that shaft in suche wise, that they moued not the heade that was wythin the fleshe.”

21. fiil To make a ladder by joining rungs ("stales") between the posts.

    “For stalyng of the ladders of the Churche xx d.”

22. isim A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line.

    “You cannot take the queen without giving a stale, therefore you lose the game.”

23. isim A stalemate; a stalemated game.

    “They stand at a stay; Like a Stale at Chesse, where it is no Mate, but yet the Game cannot stirre.”

24. isim An ambush.

    “It is a stelling place and sovir harbry, Quhar ost in staill or embuschment may ly.”

25. isim A band of armed men or hunters.

    “The staill past throw the wod with sic noyis...yat all the bestis wer rasit fra thair dennys.”

26. isim The main force of an army.

    “Neveryeles I knaw asweill by Englisemen as Scottishmen that their stale was no les then thre thowsand men.”

27. sıfat At a standstill; stalemated.

    “Then drawith he & is stale.”

28. fiil To stalemate.

    “He shall stale þe black kyng in the pointe þer the crosse standith.”

29. fiil To be stalemated.

    “For vnder cuire I got sik check, that I micht neither muife nor neck, bot ather stale or mait.”

30. isim Urine, especially used of horses and cattle.

    “[…]That they be not compelled to eate their owne donge, and drinke their owne stale with you?”