stay in

US pronunciation

American soundstay in

stayin

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

stay - in -> stay in

Myanmar meaning

Full entry

stay¹ /steÇ / v

၁။ (က) နေသည်။ stay (at) home (ie not go out or to work) ❍ I'm afraid I can't stay (ie I must leave now). ❍ stay late at the office ❍ stay in the house/ in bed/ in one's room ❍ stay in teaching/journalism (ie not change one’s job) ❍ stay away from (ie not go to) school ❍ Stay on this road for two miles then turn left. ❍ They asked me to stay for/to dinner. ❍ Stay here until I come back. ❍ We stayed to see what would happen. ❍ I can only stay a few minutes. ❍ I can't get my hat to stay on. ❍ My trousers only stay up if I wear a belt. ❍ AND
(ခ) နေသည်။ ထားသည်။ ရှိသည်။ stay awake ❍ stay single (ie not marry) ❍ He never stays sober for long. ❍ The TV stays on all day at this place. ❍ They stayed friends for years. ❍ Everything has stayed the same.
၂။ ခေတ္တနေသည်။ တည်းသည်။ It's late—why don't you stay (ie for the night)? ❍ We stayed in a hotel. ❍ I hope you will stay with us next time you visit Durham. ❍ Jenny's staying in Dublin for a few days, but she now lives/is now living (ie has her home) in Belfast. ❍ She stayed the night with me (ie slept at my house for the night).
n အလည်အပတ်။ နေခြင်း။ (ည)အိပ်ခြင်း။ an overnight stay in Karachi ❍ a two-week stay with my uncle.
❏ be here to stay/ have come to stay [IDM ] (infml )အခိုင်အမာ အမြစ်တွယ်သည်။ ရေရှည် ရပ်တည် မည်။ I hope that (the idea of) equality of opportunity for men and women has come to/is here to stay.
❏ stay-at-home n (infml usu derog ) အိမ်တွင်းပုန်း။
❏ stay behind [PHRV ] (esp Brit ) ကျန်ရစ်သည်။ နေရစ် သည်။ They stayed behind after the party to help clear up. ❍ The teacher told him to stay behind after class.
❏ stay the course [IDM ] ဆုံးခန်းတိုင်အောင် အားထုတ်သည်။ ရေဆုံးရေဖျားလိုက်သည်။ I don't think he's dedicated enough to stay the course.
❏ stay down [PHRV ] ပြန်အန်မထုတ်။ She's so ill that nothing will stay down, not even water.
❏ stay one's hand [IDM ] (arch or rhet ) (မိမိကိုယ်ကိုမိမိ) ထိန်းချုပ်သည်။
❏ stay in [PHRV ] အိမ်တွင်းအောင်းသည်။ အပြင်မထွက်။ The doctor advised me to stay in for a few days.
❏ a stay of execution [IDM ] (esp law ) (စီရင်ချက် အကောင်အထည်ဖော်မှု)ဆိုင်းငံ့ထားခြင်း။ (fig ) They were due to start demolishing the old theatre today but there's been a last-minute stay of execution.
❏ stay on (at…) [PHRV ] ဆက်နေသည်။ He stayed on at university to do research.
❏ stay out [PHRV ]
၁။ အိမ်မပြန်ဘဲနေသည်။ I don't like you staying out so late.
၂။ (အလုပ်သမား) သပိတ်မှောက် သည်။ The miners stayed out for a whole year.
❏ stay out of sth [PHRV ] ကင်းကင်းရှင်းရှင်းနေသည်။ ဝေးစွခြောက်ပါးပါပဲ။ His father told him to stay out of trouble.
❏ stay put [IDM ] (infml ) လက်ရှိအတိုင်းနေသည်။ ရှိရင်းစွဲ အတိုင်းနေသည်။ We had thought of moving house but we've decided to stay put for a while.
❏ stay up [PHRV ] အိပ်ရာမဝင်ဘဲနေသည်။ The children were allowed to stay up for their favourite TV programme.
❏ stayer n ရေဆုံးရေဖျားလိုက်နိုင်သူ။ He's proved himself a stayer over a long distance.
❏ staying power n [U] ခံနိုင်ရည်။ ဇွဲ။
Long-distance runners need plenty of staying power.

stay² /steÇ/ n [C]

(လှေ) တိုင်ဆိုင်းကြိုး။ See also MAINSTAY

More examples

Stay right here, please.
[stay at home] : He wanted her to stay at home and look after the children.
[stay late] : I have to stay late at work every Thursday.
Fast walking is a good way of staying fit.
[stay calm/cool/quiet] : My number one rule is to stay calm under pressure.
[stay up/down] : Interest rates should stay down for the next few months.
[stay with] : How long is he planning to stay with you?
[stay at] : Jamie stayed at the hotel for three days.
The defence has filed a petition to stay proceedings.
The court may stay execution pursuant to Order 37.

Synonyms

wait, hang about, continue, keep on, abide, adjourn, adjournment, arrest, be accommodated, bide, brace, break, bunk, buttress, check, column, curb, dally, defer, deferment, delay, detain, discontinue, dwell, endure, establish oneself, halt, hang, hang around, hang in, hang out, hinder, hold, hold over, hold the fort, holiday, hover, impede, inhabit, intermit, interrupt, lag, last, linger, live, lodge, loiter, nest, obstruct, outstay, pause, perch, postpone, postponement, prevent, procrastinate, prop, prorogue, put down roots, put off, put up, reinforcement, remain, remission, reprieve, reside, respite, roost, settle, shelve, shore, shoring, sit tight, sojourn, squat, stall, stanchion, stand, standstill, stay out, stay put, stick around, stop, stop over, stopover, stopping, support, suspend, suspension, sweat, sweat it out, tarry, truss, underpinning, underpropping, vacation, visit, ward off

Antonyms

abet, advance, aid, allow, assist, carry on, complete, continuation, continue, depart, encourage, expedite, facilitate, finish, forge, forward, further, go, help, hurry, leave, let go, move, permit, persistence, promote, push, release, rush, start, support