Stay the course

Definition

stay 1 /steÇ / v ၁။ (က) ေနသည္။ 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) ေနသည္။ ထားသည္။ ရိွသည္။ 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။ ေခတၱေနသည္။ တည္းသည္။ 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 အလည္အပတ္။ ေနျခင္း။ (ည)အိပ္ျခင္း။ an overnight stay in Karachi ❍ a two-week stay with my uncle. ❏ be here to stay/ have come to stay [ IDM ] ( infml )အခိုင္အမာ အျမစ္တြယ္သည္။ ေရရွည္ ရပ္တည္ မည္။ 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 ) အိမ္တြင္းပုန္း။ ❏ stay behind [ PHRV ] ( esp Brit ) က်န္ရစ္သည္။ ေနရစ္ သည္။ They stayed behind after the party to help clear up. ❍ The teacher told him to stay behind after class. ❏ stay the course [ IDM ] ဆံုးခန္းတိုင္ေအာင္ အားထုတ္သည္။ ေရဆံုးေရဖ်ားလိုက္သည္။ I don't think he's dedicated enough to stay the course. ❏ stay down [ PHRV ] ျပန္အန္မထုတ္။ She's so ill that nothing will stay down, not even water. ❏ stay one's hand [ IDM ] ( arch or rhet ) (မိမိကိုယ္ကိုမိမိ) ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္သည္။ ❏ stay in [ PHRV ] အိမ္တြင္းေအာင္းသည္။ အျပင္မထြက္။ The doctor advised me to stay in for a few days. ❏ a stay of execution [ IDM ] ( esp law ) (စီရင္ခ်က္ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္မႈ)ဆိုင္းငံ့ထားျခင္း။ ( 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 ] ဆက္ေနသည္။ He stayed on at university to do research. ❏ stay out [ PHRV ] ၁။ အိမ္မျပန္ဘဲေနသည္။ I don't like you staying out so late. ၂။ (အလုပ္သမား) သပိတ္ေမွာက္ သည္။ The miners stayed out for a whole year. ❏ stay out of sth [ PHRV ] ကင္းကင္းရွင္းရွင္းေနသည္။ ေဝးစြေျခာက္ပါးပါပဲ။ His father told him to stay out of trouble. ❏ stay put [ IDM ] ( infml ) လက္ရိွအတိုင္းေနသည္။ ရိွရင္းစြဲ အတိုင္းေနသည္။ We had thought of moving house but we've decided to stay put for a while. ❏ stay up [ PHRV ] အိပ္ရာမဝင္ဘဲေနသည္။ The children were allowed to stay up for their favourite TV programme. ❏ stayer n ေရဆံုးေရဖ်ားလိုက္ႏိုင္သူ။ He's proved himself a stayer over a long distance. ❏ staying power n [U] ခံႏိုင္ရည္။ ဇြဲ။ Long-distance runners need plenty of staying power. stay 2 /steÇ/ n [C] (ေလွ) တိုင္ဆိုင္းႀကိဳး။ See also MAINSTAY

Examples

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