staunch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate; watertight.

   “Yet if I knevv, / VVhat Hoope ſhould hold vs ſtaunch from edge to edge / Ath'vvorld [of the world]: I vvould perſue it.”

2. sıfat Impermeable to air or other gases; airtight.
3. sıfat Strongly built; also, in good or strong condition.

   “Hovv goodly, and hovv to be vviſht vvere ſuch an obedient unanimity as this, vvhat a fine conformity vvould it ſtarch us all into? doubtles a ſtanch and ſolid peece of frame-vvork, as any January could freeze together.”

4. sıfat Staying true to one's aims or principles; firm, resolute, unswerving.

   “Without our staunch front line the enemy would have split the regiment.”

5. sıfat Dependable, loyal, reliable, trustworthy.

   “He’s been a staunch supporter of mine through every election.”

6. sıfat Of a hunting dog: that can be depended on to pick up the scent of, or to mark, game.

   “For, scarce a spear's length from his haunch, / Vindictive toiled the blood-hounds staunch; […]”

7. sıfat Cautious, restrained.
8. sıfat Stubborn, intransigent.
9. fiil Alternative spelling of stanch.

   “I will couer the depe vpon him, I will ſtaunch his floudes, and the greate waters ſhalbe reſtrayned.”

10. isim That which stanches or checks a flow.
11. isim A plant or substance which stops the flow of blood; a styptic.
12. isim An act of stanching or stopping.
13. isim Synonym of afterdamp (“suffocating gases present in a coal mine after an explosion caused by firedamp”).
14. isim Alternative spelling of stanch (“a floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release; also, a dam or lock in a river”).