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noun steɪksteɪk 1A strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a plant, form part of a fence, mark a boundary, etc. Example sentencesExamples - Begin by anchoring the board firmly in place at the starting point, using wooden stakes driven into the ground.
- He has wooden stakes up with pink flags on his property edges.
- I make a planting hole for each seedling with my finger, then use a small pointed plant marker stake or wooden Popsicle stick to lift seedlings.
- Connect them together using 12.5 gauge fencer wire and then continue this wire back along your fence stakes as a dead wire and connect to the earth bars near the fencer.
- Rows were thinned to provide an even plant spacing and each plant marked with a numbered stake.
- When planting tree roses, climbers or ramblers with long stems, tie them to stakes or supports immediately after planting.
- A row of more than 15 bricks, pieces of concrete, metal poles, wooden stakes and a traffic cone were balanced on the track in a blatant act of sabotage.
- The simplest of all plant supports are stakes or poles.
- Old houses were built on wooden stakes driven deep in the ground for stability.
- Use a plumb bob and chalk to transfer each mark from the string to the ground, and drive a stake to mark the center of each post position.
- Canvas tents and hastily assembled lean-tos disappeared in favor of nylon tents complete with metal poles and nylon stakes.
- To help provide support for the netting, I drive 6-foot wooden tomato stakes in the ground about every sixth bush.
- The ground is getting hard, and it's become increasingly difficult to dig, to even pound these stakes into the ground.
- The subplot centers were permanently marked with metal rebar stakes with labelled metal caps.
- With nothing built yet - stakes in the dunes mark the position of villas, tees, greens and bunkers - it is hard to gauge consumer interest.
- Shivering slightly, I tied the horse's well-used rein to a rotting stake in the wooden fence and stepped inside.
- Before the plants start to stretch, he inserts four stakes firmly into the ground around the base of each plant, matching the spacing and pattern on the plastic lid.
- To stake plants in a bed, drive 3-foot stakes into the ground after every third plant around the perimeter of the bed.
- The rickety beige structure is gone, and for the last few days workmen have been pounding enormous black stakes into the ground at regular intervals.
- Enclosures were made of plastic mesh stapled to wooden stakes driven into the ground.
Synonyms post, pole, stick, spike, upright, support, prop, strut, stave, pale, paling, picket, pile, piling, stanchion, shaft, cane, beanpole, rod, mast historical palisade - 1.1the stakehistorical A wooden post to which a person was tied before being burned alive as a punishment.
Bishop Ridley was burned at the stake Example sentencesExamples - Opinions and beliefs which are popular need no protection - it's the hard and unpopular ones that people get stoned and burned at the stake for.
- First of all Papylus was nailed to a stake and lifted up, and after the fire was brought near he prayed in peace and gave up his soul.
- A few decades earlier Bruno had been found guilty of heresy, and then burned at the stake, for suggesting that Earth may not be the only place in the universe that harbors life.
- She rose from humble origins to become a military heroine by the age of 19, although she was ultimately captured and burned at the stake for heresy.
- Thomas Weir was sentenced to death and burned at the stake, while his sister was hanged.
- 1.2 A long vertical rod used in basket-making.
Example sentencesExamples - Weave all the way around the basket, back to the starting point, going over one stake and behind the next.
- As well as the common method of weaving baskets on a stake and strand principle, Jane also makes coiled, plaited, interlaced and frame baskets.
- Soak the ends of your stakes, cut the inside stakes flush with the top of the basket and cut and tuck the outside stakes into the first available weaver inside the basket.
2A metalworker's small anvil, typically with a projection for fitting into a socket on a bench. Example sentencesExamples - Numerous hammers, stakes and shaping tools were put to use in shaping the artwork of leaves.
- It is also to be observed that of the two hammer-like instruments found together in the Harty hoard one is much larger than the other, and may have formed the head of a stake or anvil, while the other served as a hammer.
3A territorial division of the Mormon Church under the jurisdiction of a president. Example sentencesExamples - The teenagers in our stake spent five days at the temple this year, with classes and activities during the day, a dance or testimony meeting at night, and a baptismal session in the temple each morning.
- Congregations are organized into stakes and districts, which belong to a temple district.
verb steɪksteɪk [with object]1Support (a plant) with a stake or stakes. the gladioli were staked in gaudy ranks vigorous plants need staking Example sentencesExamples - It is a tall growing indeterminate plant which should be staked and tied for best results.
- Keep gladiolus watered and fertilize regularly; stake taller varieties.
- Trees are frequently staked for support after planting and there is much debate as to whether these should be long stakes, short stakes or even slanting stakes.
- As indoor tomato plants grow taller, make sure they are properly staked and that the side shots are pinched out to encourage the plant to grow tall.
- You can stake this tree when young to give it more height, or, as I did, simply allow it to flow through the bed like a green wave.
- And stake young trees, especially bare-root trees and evergreens, to fortify them against strong winds.
- To stake plants in a bed, drive 3-foot stakes into the ground after every third plant around the perimeter of the bed.
- As your plants get larger, they will need to be staked in order to support the weight of the fruits as they begin to grow.
- Recent studies at the University of California at Davis have shown that most people stake their young trees needlessly and for too long.
- It's always a good idea to stake trees when you plant them.
- Check any staked trees to see if their ties are getting tight.
- Support the cane of your selected rose by staking it with a bamboo stake and some rose or twist ties.
- It keeps the fruit clean if tomato plants aren't staked and are allowed to sprawl on the ground.
- Finally, stake the tree for at least a year, allowing new anchoring roots to develop.
- Tall perennials will look and fare better if they are staked or tied up to avoid slumping over on the ground.
- Urban gardens are often sheltered from high winds, but the supplier will advise if you need to stake a new tree in the first year while the root system establishes itself.
- However, if the tree was staked in the nursery or if you are planting in a windy location, proper staking will support the tree during its first years in the ground.
- To get her ivy to grow in the direction she wants it to, Lois Gunderman of Pennsylvania uses metal hair pins to stake the vines into the ground, away from the house.
- A plant is staked when the root system is too small to hold it upright.
- In flower-beds, stake tall perennials such as delphiniums and hollyhocks by using canes for individual flower stems or by pushing twiggy prunings from shrubs and trees into or around the clump.
Synonyms prop up, tie up, tether, support, hold up, bolster up, brace, buttress, reinforce, truss, stay 2stake something outMark an area with stakes so as to claim ownership of it. the boundary between the two manors was properly staked out Example sentencesExamples - Babu snagged the spot last year by dispatching a friend to stake it out two months before the season even started.
- Once a territory is staked out and the owner of the property becomes lax in his knowledge that his land is safe is when he is the most vulnerable.
- ‘These territories might be staked out’ I added.
Synonyms mark off, mark out, demarcate, mark the boundaries/limits of, outline, measure out, define, delimit, fence off, section off, close off, shut off, cordon off, bound, circumscribe - 2.1 Be assertive in defining and defending a position or policy.
Elena was staking out a role for herself as a formidable political force Example sentencesExamples - She creates a new ‘moderate’ position by staking a position out on the margin of what had previously been ‘acceptable’.
- As hard as it can be to truly open up and mine the meaning of one's existence, and then stake that meaning out for public display, this is what it means to write a worthwhile autobiography.
- Certainly the city still has a long way to go before we can start to claim mission success, but at least the road has been staked out toward completion.
- You have to watch over things anyway, because people count on you to stake it out.
- One reason why I mostly left the Greek Gods alone in Sandman was that I felt that Eddie Campbell had staked them out as his territory in his DEADFACE comic, and I didn't want to intrude on what he was doing.
- But we also knew, and I knew, that if we had to take the right fork, then having staked it out this way, we were going to have to use military force.
- Phones at David Horner & Co at the Pioneer Business Park in Clifton Moor ‘rang off the wall’ following a business page plea for shareholders to stake their claim out of a £690,000 pot.
- Tom had staked this area out when he was a freshman to avoid sitting in a hallway and getting stepped on or a crowded student lounge.
- Clashing with a rival release is to be avoided at all costs, and since the choice slots are staked out years in advance by the biggest of the big guns, April and May are a good time for smaller action movies to clean up.
- Claim this ground as your own - before someone else stakes it out and gets all the votes.
Phrases Used to emphasize that one would do anything to defend a particular belief, opinion, or person. I trust these people—I would go to the stake for every one of them Example sentencesExamples - ‘That there is nothing they would go to the stake for,’ he replies immediately.
- I hope that if it ever came down to it I might be willing to go to the stake for belief in the triune God.
- They are absolutists, who are willing to go to the stake for certain issues.
- Ann Widdecombe says she would go to the stake for her beliefs, and I believe her.
- My favorite theory, for what it's worth, is the hygiene hypothesis, though I wouldn't go to the stake for it.
Move or go to live elsewhere. his father wrangled with a foreman and the family pulled up stakes Example sentencesExamples - The fantasy of pulling up stakes and living somewhere new tends to hit me wherever I travel in the West - Boulder, Colorado, or Bellingham, Washington, or Bend, Oregon.
- Two years ago, the Lee family pulled up stakes in Houston, Texas, one of the country's certified boomtowns, and moved to Murrysville.
- Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America wrote eloquently of Americans' love for pulling up stakes and moving on.
- Tommie pulled up stakes and moved back to Cleveland to be by his mother.
- ‘There aren't many organizations that allow you to essentially pull up stakes and move your office 1,500 miles away,’ Chad said.
- That's the kind of weather report that might cause golfers to think about pulling up stakes and moving to Phoenix.
- I started by pulling up stakes and moving with my girlfriend, the cats, and faithful Horatio to a well-fortified compound in the ridiculous mansion district of Beverly Hills.
- Geneva, which in the not-so-distant past was considered a cultural backwater, with many galleries pulling up stakes to move elsewhere, has recently become an importer of galleries and auction houses.
- If trying to fix the system doesn't work, parents need to have the option to pull up stakes and move on instead of subjecting their children to schools that can't educate.
- Over the past 10 years, thousands of us have pulled up stakes and moved away.
Assert one's right to something. the batsman staked a claim for a place in the side Example sentencesExamples - It is a commonplace feature of political and legal debate that advocates of various interests seek to characterise those interests as rights, thereby staking a claim for weight or recognition that may be contestable.
- When the surrounding metropolitan area is included, Cairo has a population of 14.5 million, staking a claim to 9th largest city in the world.
- In addition to its important role as a simulator for pilots, model aircraft flying is staking a claim to serious sports status.
- After not featuring in the first team squad since November, he returned to training shortly before Christmas and seemed to be on the verge of staking a claim for a senior start again.
- At the same time, with seven different teams across both codes staking a claim to him, he felt his hurling was suffering.
- I am staking a claim to be a genius of logistical planning.
- Abeba is a taxi driver, one among a handful of women staking a claim to what was once an exclusively-male preserve.
- Ellis, who has only been part of the tour since the turn of the millennium, is staking a claim as a serious contender in this most challenging of competitions, even taking the lead for a short time during the earlier rounds.
- An 89-year-old from Gloucester is staking a claim to being the world's longest-serving altar ‘boy’.
- However, those states not formed around a pre-existing national identity have greater difficulty in staking a claim to being a nation-state, and consequent problems with stability.
Synonyms assert, declare, proclaim, state, make, lay, establish, put on record, put in
Phrasal Verbs stake someone/something out Keep a person or place under surveillance. they'd staked out Culley's flat for a day Example sentencesExamples - I have been staked out by numerous people the entire morning, all of them telling me wacky rumors about you.
- I can't let him go, or else I will be forced by some force greater than I to stake him out again and draw him back, as I have done twice before.
- We're also looking at the possibility that it was a predator who had staked her out, watched her over a period of time, and went in and took her for sexual purposes.
- I staked it out for a while and noticed a young woman about Mr. Yu's height walking with her.
- Clearly, what happened here was that they were staking him out.
- We would stake them out at a lunch-in, or stand in the Senate gallery when they were going to a vote - which I think is illegal.
- I'm tempted to go down and stake them out, but thousands of others are thinking the same thing.
- Since photographers have to stake these babies out, spending days lurking in the bushes waiting for one to sail on by, branches and leaves are often in the frame.
- We stake the place out, eyeing the set up of the amps and the positioning of the security guards.
- We'll stake him out tomorrow, and hit when he's in a good area.
- The man is separated from his wife, when he does have a private relationship with someone else, should we be staking it out?
Synonyms observe, watch, keep an eye on, keep under observation, keep watch on, keep under surveillance, survey, monitor, keep under scrutiny, watch like a hawk, keep a weather eye on, spy on, check out
Origin Old English staca, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch staak, also to stick2. In the sense ‘a thick pointed stick driven into the ground’, stake is related to stick. The gambling sense might relate to the idea of an object being placed as a wager on a post or stake, though there is no definite evidence of the existence of this custom. If you stake a claim you declare or assert your right to something. This expression originated in America at the time of the California gold rush of 1849. Prospectors would register their claim to a particular plot of land by marking out the boundary with wooden stakes that they drove into the ground, thus ‘staking a claim’. Also American in origin is the phrase pull up stakes, meaning ‘to move or go to live elsewhere’. The stakes being referred to here are pegs or posts for securing a tent or making a fence around a temporary settlement.
Rhymes ache, awake, bake, betake, Blake, brake, break, cake, crake, drake, fake, flake, forsake, hake, Jake, lake, make, mistake, opaque, partake, quake, rake, sake, shake, sheikh, slake, snake, splake, steak, strake, take, undertake, wake, wideawake noun steɪksteɪk 1A sum of money or something else of value gambled on the outcome of a risky game or venture. playing dice for high stakes figurative the opposition raised the stakes in the battle for power the stakes are high with a six-figure bonanza in television rights in the balance Example sentencesExamples - I was fighting for my body, and for myself: the stakes were high.
- ‘The stakes are high, and one misstep could negate the assumptions for continuing growth and development,’ he said.
- With Essendon sitting at 13 th and the Swans at 12 th the stakes are high and it is a game that I am really looking forward too.
- He makes clear that the stakes are high and that the outcome is far from assured.
- It's one of those shoot-it-once-or-forget-it-scenes where the stakes are high, a nice inclusion on this documentary.
- And it raised the stakes for LaVerdiere's recent gallery exhibition, his first with Lehmann Maupin, in New York.
- The stakes were high, but that's how I like them.
- The lure of casinos has raised the stakes for federal recognition.
- But tomorrow brings another election, where the stakes are high, the personalities are bigger than the issues, and the electorate is grumpy.
- They also understood that the war of ideas had to be fought by engaging in real-world controversies, with stakes wagered on the outcome.
- The atmosphere is very tense and the stakes are high.
- The stakes are high, but the opportunity is enormous.
- I don't think I've ever met a successful man who didn't take risks or didn't gamble for high stakes.
- The learning curve is steep and the stakes are high.
- Because the stakes are high, and because good regulation demands the proof of clear public benefit, the Commission's approach is rigorous.
- Sharply rising income inequality has raised the stakes of the economic game.
- Cabrail looked from one to the other and raised the stakes.
- Andre Agassi raised the stakes in the men's game at the Australian Open when he displayed a mental and physical toughness to win his sixth Grand Slam title.
- I very much encourage the Government to keep working in that area, because the stakes are high and we need to encourage more private savings in this country.
- Early critiques are mixed, but the scale of the game's ambitions has raised the stakes of what players will come to expect.
Synonyms bet, wager, ante, pledge, hazard - 1.1 A share or interest in a business, situation, or system.
GM acquired a 50 per cent stake in Saab Example sentencesExamples - This obviously means that the audience for our scholarship now includes all who have a stake in this bigger system.
- A mediator is someone who does not have a stake in the business - a dispassionate third-party who can solve particularly sticky issues.
- A 25.78 per cent stake - 261 352 shares - will be up for sale until February 17.
- Bendini & Shaw's owner, Harry O'Kelly, took a 25 per cent stake in the enlarged business.
- Yang said the group wants foreign investors to take stakes in its business, but will insist that it be the controlling shareholder in any joint ventures.
- Most people who tell you about the patent system have a stake in it, and so they want you to like it.
- Independent advisors often offer an impressive level of personal service because they have a stake in the business.
- Face it: top executives act more like owners when they have a stake in the business.
- A number of Lake District private investors have taken a 30 per cent stake in the business, freeing up cash for further growth.
- Perera is thought to be the main shareholder in the company, although its staff has a 20 per cent stake through a staff share ownership scheme.
- With a 35 per cent stake in the business, Martin was once worth £35 million.
- The key is Rupert's 30 per cent stake in the voting shares - 307.8 million out of 1.05 billion.
- The joint ventures in a number of Scottish cities will operate under the Quality Street brand, but local partners will have a stake in the business.
- A group of seven airlines, including British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, has taken a 46 per cent stake in the system.
- A financial restructuring in May last year raised £1.6 million and lease obligations were converted into a 6.8 per cent share stake.
- It has proven to be successful in accommodating the differing interests that have a stake in the legislative process.
- He now has a 22.2 per cent stake in the business.
- The Bronfman family's 7.5 per cent stake in the resulting business was worth $6.5 billion when the deal was struck.
- Whatever the final outcome of the case, the delay in the ruling will provide time for deals to be struck by financial interests that have a stake in the dispute.
- Those who do have a stake in the current system - the teachers' union, for example - point to the schools' bad condition as a reason for the government to appropriate more money.
Synonyms share, interest, financial interest, investment, involvement, concern - 1.2stakes Prize money, especially in horse racing.
Example sentencesExamples - Handicap stakes and prize money of that sort for a long-distance handicap at Musselburgh would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
- Mecca Bingo in Regent Circus is angry that it will not be able to increase stakes and prize money when new legislation comes into force.
- Even so, the real driving force behind such travel was not the railway but increased prize money or stakes which still came largely from the subscriptions of rich patrons.
- Former champion jockey Willie Carson said a Manchester racecourse would up the stakes in the sport - and propel the city into the world's richest league.
- Those purses are rising more dramatically than the stakes and allowance races.
Synonyms prize money, purse, pot, winnings - 1.3Stakesin names A horse race in which all the owners of the racehorses running contribute to the prize money.
the horse is to run in the Craven Stakes Example sentencesExamples - All the action from the first day of Flat racing's big meeting, where Rock of Gibraltar won the feature race, the St James' Palace Stakes.
- Prior to that effort, she finished second in the Flawlessly Stakes at Hollywood Park on July 4.
- All the action from day two of Flat racing's big meeting, where Grandera wins the Prince of Wales' Stakes, the big race of the day.
- On May 7, the Saudi Arabia Royal Cup, the Oasis Stakes Race, was held at Tokyo Racetrack.
- She added to her credentials that afternoon when she took the Appalachian Stakes in her first attempt on the grass.
- After Epsom, the colt went on to win the Irish Derby and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot.
- Galileo also landed the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot and the Irish Derby.
- Earlier this year, he won the Claiming Crown Express Stakes at Philadelphia Park with Talknow.
- Comic Truth won the Jean Lafitte Stakes at Delta on November 24 for trainer Cole Norman.
- She was scratched out of Friday's Pocahontas Stakes at Churchill in favor of Saturday's race.
- Earlier, Kieren Fallon's mount Nevisian Lad came through late to take the July Stakes.
- On July 3 at Arlington, the five-year-old son of Fit to Fight won the Better Bee Stakes.
- She also won the Dade Turf Classic Stakes at Ellis Park earlier this year.
- Wando had not won a stakes race since clinching the Triple Crown in the Breeders' Stakes at Woodbine last August.
- Where Or When, who had beaten Hawk Wing in last season's Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, was a distant second with Olden Times third.
- She also won the Swettenham Stud Fillies Trial Stakes at Newbury for trainer Michael Jarvis.
- He sent out Turk Flyer to win the Oklahoma Classics Day Turf Stakes on October 22 at Remington.
- He exits a fifth-place finish in the John Henry Stakes at the Meadowlands on September 20.
- The £30,000 Unicorn Fleur de Lys Fillies' Stakes is the richest race on the card, and Zayn Zen may prove the answer.
- Frankie Dettori urged Grandera to the narrowest of wins over Hawk Wing in the Group One Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown on Saturday.
- 1.4with modifier stakes A situation involving competition in a specified area.
we will keep you one step ahead in the fashion stakes Example sentencesExamples - And nowhere are the financial and health stakes higher than in the area of cardiac surgery.
- Hats dominate the fashion stakes with racegoers.
- But he has competition in the style stakes from Dougray Scott, who has recently been linked with the role of James Bond because of his suave good looks.
- Smart said yesterday that it was confident of taking on Eircom in the competition stakes.
- They just want to protect their market share by teaming up with fellow soulmates to keep the competition in the superstition stakes at bay.
Synonyms competition, contest, battle, challenge, rivalry, race, running, struggle, scramble
verb steɪksteɪk [with object]1Gamble (money or something else of value) on the outcome of a game or race. one gambler staked everything he'd got and lost figurative it was risky to stake his reputation on one big success Example sentencesExamples - One gambler staked £5,000 on snow in London on Friday.
- She wasn't staking any chances that he might skip out on her.
- Players who are not prepared to wager that their cards are best can drop out of the betting, sacrificing any money staked up to that point.
- Here the bank would take half the money that had been staked on the paired cards.
- The endowment mortgages, with-profits funds and private pensions on which people staked their futures are a national scandal.
- Still I'm thankful that I can pick and choose gigs, just playing for enjoyment and spare cash rather than having to stake my living on it.
- It's a fascinating read, and reveals the extent to which rakish elements amongst landowners and the aristocracy staked huge wagers on the outcome of sporting events.
- There was a sense, largely but not exclusively fostered by the new breed of genome-based private companies, that everyone was in a race to stake claims as fast as they could and reap huge profits from their discoveries.
- Although she had monitored the racing at Fairyhouse by teletext throughout Sunday afternoon, she had no idea that her first six wins meant she had €94,000 staked on the last race.
- It just shows you can win big even when you haven't staked much money.
- Four co-workers have decided to see if this idea is possible, staking a month's salary on who can stay inside the longest.
- Such revelry was worsened by the heavy betting involved: £1, 000 could be staked on one game as players competed for such prizes as gloves and pieces of lace.
- In Britain, £3 million a day is staked in online games.
- It was just over four years ago that the 57-year-old staked his future on bookmaking and he's now reaping the dividends as the formerly illicit world of gambling is undergoing a mainstream makeover.
- The financial risks belonged to his wealthy patrons, while he staked his ambitious future.
- The exercise is merely one of interest, as none of my own money has been staked in the past, nor will be in the future.
- The total money staked by the players must not be more than what is currently in the bank, but within this limit you can bet any amount you wish.
- A once-in-a-lifetime chance to start a business of your own, for instance, may dictate staking everything you're worth on it.
- On the Ladbrokes site there are up to 5,000 players online at any one time and more than $7 million is staked each day (dollars are the game's universal online currency).
- Sandra Noel deals carefully with the tragedy, not simply the loss of personal friends of her father, but almost a financial disaster as he had staked his all on returning with a record of victory.
Synonyms bet, wager, place a bet of, lay, put on, gamble, pledge, chance, venture, risk, hazard 2North American informal Give financial or other support to. he staked him to an education at the École des Beaux-Arts Example sentencesExamples - His father had staked him some money to buy a limited partnership in Mostly Bull when the firm was still a calfling during the exuberant days when the Insecurity business was actually making money for some people.
Phrases people's lives could be at stake Example sentencesExamples - This is very depressing with the future of the world's climate at stake.
- What is at stake is not just the fate of a failed technology company.
- The tempo of the game was at the highest point as both teams threw everything into the game with so much at stake.
- Huge sums of money are at stake, so timing and discretion are paramount.
- However, those not prepared to take responsibility for what they do when drunk should be aware of what is at stake.
- For professional huntsman Richard Emmott the Government's ban means his job and home are at stake.
- How do you decide the bottom line, when people's lives or the world economy, are at stake?
- The risks are higher, the stakes lower and the goals would be considered laughable if so many lives were not at stake.
- But with little at stake it was perhaps not surprising there was little in the way of genuine action.
- There are people's lives at stake and our country is up to it and the people here are up to it.
- Much more is at stake in the battle which is about to get under way.
2At issue or in question. the logical response is to give up, but there's more at stake than logic Example sentencesExamples - The issues at stake are issues that people of faith need to confront.
- There does not seem to me to be a fundamental issue of jurisprudence at stake, but more a question of evidence.
- Each has said that the cash will come in handy, but there are more important issues at stake.
- Strenuous efforts were made to inform the people of the issues at stake in the Nice Treaty.
- He says that there's a bigger issue at stake than simply the future of one 19th century building.
- This one makes you sift through the issues at stake in the election in Britain.
- There are several issues at stake here, but two stand out in particular.
- However, there are more fundamental questions at stake, about the very meaning of right and wrong.
- There are many issues at stake here, not least those of equity and social justice.
- But it should not be assumed without serious consideration of the issues at stake.
Origin Late Middle English: perhaps a specialized usage of stake1, from the notion of an object being placed as a wager on a post or stake. nounstāksteɪk 1A strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a tree, form part of a fence, act as a boundary mark, etc. Example sentencesExamples - I make a planting hole for each seedling with my finger, then use a small pointed plant marker stake or wooden Popsicle stick to lift seedlings.
- The ground is getting hard, and it's become increasingly difficult to dig, to even pound these stakes into the ground.
- With nothing built yet - stakes in the dunes mark the position of villas, tees, greens and bunkers - it is hard to gauge consumer interest.
- He has wooden stakes up with pink flags on his property edges.
- Begin by anchoring the board firmly in place at the starting point, using wooden stakes driven into the ground.
- Connect them together using 12.5 gauge fencer wire and then continue this wire back along your fence stakes as a dead wire and connect to the earth bars near the fencer.
- When planting tree roses, climbers or ramblers with long stems, tie them to stakes or supports immediately after planting.
- Enclosures were made of plastic mesh stapled to wooden stakes driven into the ground.
- Before the plants start to stretch, he inserts four stakes firmly into the ground around the base of each plant, matching the spacing and pattern on the plastic lid.
- A row of more than 15 bricks, pieces of concrete, metal poles, wooden stakes and a traffic cone were balanced on the track in a blatant act of sabotage.
- Use a plumb bob and chalk to transfer each mark from the string to the ground, and drive a stake to mark the center of each post position.
- The rickety beige structure is gone, and for the last few days workmen have been pounding enormous black stakes into the ground at regular intervals.
- To stake plants in a bed, drive 3-foot stakes into the ground after every third plant around the perimeter of the bed.
- Shivering slightly, I tied the horse's well-used rein to a rotting stake in the wooden fence and stepped inside.
- To help provide support for the netting, I drive 6-foot wooden tomato stakes in the ground about every sixth bush.
- Old houses were built on wooden stakes driven deep in the ground for stability.
- The simplest of all plant supports are stakes or poles.
- Rows were thinned to provide an even plant spacing and each plant marked with a numbered stake.
- The subplot centers were permanently marked with metal rebar stakes with labelled metal caps.
- Canvas tents and hastily assembled lean-tos disappeared in favor of nylon tents complete with metal poles and nylon stakes.
Synonyms post, pole, stick, spike, upright, support, prop, strut, stave, pale, paling, picket, pile, piling, stanchion, shaft, cane, beanpole, rod, mast - 1.1the stakehistorical A wooden post to which a person was tied before being burned alive as a punishment.
Example sentencesExamples - A few decades earlier Bruno had been found guilty of heresy, and then burned at the stake, for suggesting that Earth may not be the only place in the universe that harbors life.
- First of all Papylus was nailed to a stake and lifted up, and after the fire was brought near he prayed in peace and gave up his soul.
- Opinions and beliefs which are popular need no protection - it's the hard and unpopular ones that people get stoned and burned at the stake for.
- Thomas Weir was sentenced to death and burned at the stake, while his sister was hanged.
- She rose from humble origins to become a military heroine by the age of 19, although she was ultimately captured and burned at the stake for heresy.
- 1.2 A long vertical rod used in basket-making.
Example sentencesExamples - Weave all the way around the basket, back to the starting point, going over one stake and behind the next.
- As well as the common method of weaving baskets on a stake and strand principle, Jane also makes coiled, plaited, interlaced and frame baskets.
- Soak the ends of your stakes, cut the inside stakes flush with the top of the basket and cut and tuck the outside stakes into the first available weaver inside the basket.
2A metalworker's small anvil, typically with a projection for fitting into a socket on a bench. Example sentencesExamples - Numerous hammers, stakes and shaping tools were put to use in shaping the artwork of leaves.
- It is also to be observed that of the two hammer-like instruments found together in the Harty hoard one is much larger than the other, and may have formed the head of a stake or anvil, while the other served as a hammer.
3A territorial division of the Mormon Church under the jurisdiction of a president. Example sentencesExamples - The teenagers in our stake spent five days at the temple this year, with classes and activities during the day, a dance or testimony meeting at night, and a baptismal session in the temple each morning.
- Congregations are organized into stakes and districts, which belong to a temple district.
verbstāksteɪk [with object]1Support (a tree or plant) with a stake or stakes. Example sentencesExamples - In flower-beds, stake tall perennials such as delphiniums and hollyhocks by using canes for individual flower stems or by pushing twiggy prunings from shrubs and trees into or around the clump.
- Finally, stake the tree for at least a year, allowing new anchoring roots to develop.
- It's always a good idea to stake trees when you plant them.
- It is a tall growing indeterminate plant which should be staked and tied for best results.
- Check any staked trees to see if their ties are getting tight.
- As indoor tomato plants grow taller, make sure they are properly staked and that the side shots are pinched out to encourage the plant to grow tall.
- Urban gardens are often sheltered from high winds, but the supplier will advise if you need to stake a new tree in the first year while the root system establishes itself.
- Support the cane of your selected rose by staking it with a bamboo stake and some rose or twist ties.
- Tall perennials will look and fare better if they are staked or tied up to avoid slumping over on the ground.
- And stake young trees, especially bare-root trees and evergreens, to fortify them against strong winds.
- It keeps the fruit clean if tomato plants aren't staked and are allowed to sprawl on the ground.
- Keep gladiolus watered and fertilize regularly; stake taller varieties.
- You can stake this tree when young to give it more height, or, as I did, simply allow it to flow through the bed like a green wave.
- Trees are frequently staked for support after planting and there is much debate as to whether these should be long stakes, short stakes or even slanting stakes.
- As your plants get larger, they will need to be staked in order to support the weight of the fruits as they begin to grow.
- However, if the tree was staked in the nursery or if you are planting in a windy location, proper staking will support the tree during its first years in the ground.
- To get her ivy to grow in the direction she wants it to, Lois Gunderman of Pennsylvania uses metal hair pins to stake the vines into the ground, away from the house.
- To stake plants in a bed, drive 3-foot stakes into the ground after every third plant around the perimeter of the bed.
- A plant is staked when the root system is too small to hold it upright.
- Recent studies at the University of California at Davis have shown that most people stake their young trees needlessly and for too long.
Synonyms prop up, tie up, tether, support, hold up, bolster up, brace, buttress, reinforce, truss, stay 2stake something outMark an area with stakes so as to claim ownership of it. the boundary between the two ranches was properly staked out figurative the local dog staked out his territory Example sentencesExamples - ‘These territories might be staked out’ I added.
- Babu snagged the spot last year by dispatching a friend to stake it out two months before the season even started.
- Once a territory is staked out and the owner of the property becomes lax in his knowledge that his land is safe is when he is the most vulnerable.
Synonyms mark off, mark out, demarcate, mark the boundaries of, mark the limits of, outline, measure out, define, delimit, fence off, section off, close off, shut off, cordon off, bound, circumscribe - 2.1 Be assertive in defining and defending a position or policy.
Elena was staking out a role for herself as a formidable political force Example sentencesExamples - As hard as it can be to truly open up and mine the meaning of one's existence, and then stake that meaning out for public display, this is what it means to write a worthwhile autobiography.
- One reason why I mostly left the Greek Gods alone in Sandman was that I felt that Eddie Campbell had staked them out as his territory in his DEADFACE comic, and I didn't want to intrude on what he was doing.
- She creates a new ‘moderate’ position by staking a position out on the margin of what had previously been ‘acceptable’.
- Phones at David Horner & Co at the Pioneer Business Park in Clifton Moor ‘rang off the wall’ following a business page plea for shareholders to stake their claim out of a £690,000 pot.
- Certainly the city still has a long way to go before we can start to claim mission success, but at least the road has been staked out toward completion.
- You have to watch over things anyway, because people count on you to stake it out.
- But we also knew, and I knew, that if we had to take the right fork, then having staked it out this way, we were going to have to use military force.
- Clashing with a rival release is to be avoided at all costs, and since the choice slots are staked out years in advance by the biggest of the big guns, April and May are a good time for smaller action movies to clean up.
- Claim this ground as your own - before someone else stakes it out and gets all the votes.
- Tom had staked this area out when he was a freshman to avoid sitting in a hallway and getting stepped on or a crowded student lounge.
Phrases Move or go to live elsewhere. Example sentencesExamples - Tommie pulled up stakes and moved back to Cleveland to be by his mother.
- Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America wrote eloquently of Americans' love for pulling up stakes and moving on.
- Over the past 10 years, thousands of us have pulled up stakes and moved away.
- If trying to fix the system doesn't work, parents need to have the option to pull up stakes and move on instead of subjecting their children to schools that can't educate.
- I started by pulling up stakes and moving with my girlfriend, the cats, and faithful Horatio to a well-fortified compound in the ridiculous mansion district of Beverly Hills.
- ‘There aren't many organizations that allow you to essentially pull up stakes and move your office 1,500 miles away,’ Chad said.
- Geneva, which in the not-so-distant past was considered a cultural backwater, with many galleries pulling up stakes to move elsewhere, has recently become an importer of galleries and auction houses.
- The fantasy of pulling up stakes and living somewhere new tends to hit me wherever I travel in the West - Boulder, Colorado, or Bellingham, Washington, or Bend, Oregon.
- Two years ago, the Lee family pulled up stakes in Houston, Texas, one of the country's certified boomtowns, and moved to Murrysville.
- That's the kind of weather report that might cause golfers to think about pulling up stakes and moving to Phoenix.
Assert one's right to something. Example sentencesExamples - In addition to its important role as a simulator for pilots, model aircraft flying is staking a claim to serious sports status.
- It is a commonplace feature of political and legal debate that advocates of various interests seek to characterise those interests as rights, thereby staking a claim for weight or recognition that may be contestable.
- I am staking a claim to be a genius of logistical planning.
- However, those states not formed around a pre-existing national identity have greater difficulty in staking a claim to being a nation-state, and consequent problems with stability.
- When the surrounding metropolitan area is included, Cairo has a population of 14.5 million, staking a claim to 9th largest city in the world.
- Abeba is a taxi driver, one among a handful of women staking a claim to what was once an exclusively-male preserve.
- After not featuring in the first team squad since November, he returned to training shortly before Christmas and seemed to be on the verge of staking a claim for a senior start again.
- An 89-year-old from Gloucester is staking a claim to being the world's longest-serving altar ‘boy’.
- Ellis, who has only been part of the tour since the turn of the millennium, is staking a claim as a serious contender in this most challenging of competitions, even taking the lead for a short time during the earlier rounds.
- At the same time, with seven different teams across both codes staking a claim to him, he felt his hurling was suffering.
Synonyms assert, declare, proclaim, state, make, lay, establish, put on record, put in
Phrasal Verbs stake someone/something out Continuously watch a place or person in secret. they'd staked out Culley's house for half a day Example sentencesExamples - The man is separated from his wife, when he does have a private relationship with someone else, should we be staking it out?
- We'll stake him out tomorrow, and hit when he's in a good area.
- I staked it out for a while and noticed a young woman about Mr. Yu's height walking with her.
- Since photographers have to stake these babies out, spending days lurking in the bushes waiting for one to sail on by, branches and leaves are often in the frame.
- I'm tempted to go down and stake them out, but thousands of others are thinking the same thing.
- We would stake them out at a lunch-in, or stand in the Senate gallery when they were going to a vote - which I think is illegal.
- I have been staked out by numerous people the entire morning, all of them telling me wacky rumors about you.
- Clearly, what happened here was that they were staking him out.
- We stake the place out, eyeing the set up of the amps and the positioning of the security guards.
- We're also looking at the possibility that it was a predator who had staked her out, watched her over a period of time, and went in and took her for sexual purposes.
- I can't let him go, or else I will be forced by some force greater than I to stake him out again and draw him back, as I have done twice before.
Synonyms observe, watch, keep an eye on, keep under observation, keep watch on, keep under surveillance, survey, monitor, keep under scrutiny, watch like a hawk, keep a weather eye on, spy on, check out
Origin Old English staca, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch staak, also to stick. nounstāksteɪk usually stakes1A sum of money or something else of value gambled on the outcome of a risky game or venture. playing dice for high stakes figurative the mayor raised the stakes in the battle for power the stakes are high with a six-figure bonanza in television rights in the balance Example sentencesExamples - But tomorrow brings another election, where the stakes are high, the personalities are bigger than the issues, and the electorate is grumpy.
- Because the stakes are high, and because good regulation demands the proof of clear public benefit, the Commission's approach is rigorous.
- With Essendon sitting at 13 th and the Swans at 12 th the stakes are high and it is a game that I am really looking forward too.
- The stakes were high, but that's how I like them.
- The atmosphere is very tense and the stakes are high.
- Cabrail looked from one to the other and raised the stakes.
- He makes clear that the stakes are high and that the outcome is far from assured.
- I very much encourage the Government to keep working in that area, because the stakes are high and we need to encourage more private savings in this country.
- The stakes are high, but the opportunity is enormous.
- I don't think I've ever met a successful man who didn't take risks or didn't gamble for high stakes.
- ‘The stakes are high, and one misstep could negate the assumptions for continuing growth and development,’ he said.
- The learning curve is steep and the stakes are high.
- It's one of those shoot-it-once-or-forget-it-scenes where the stakes are high, a nice inclusion on this documentary.
- Andre Agassi raised the stakes in the men's game at the Australian Open when he displayed a mental and physical toughness to win his sixth Grand Slam title.
- I was fighting for my body, and for myself: the stakes were high.
- Early critiques are mixed, but the scale of the game's ambitions has raised the stakes of what players will come to expect.
- The lure of casinos has raised the stakes for federal recognition.
- And it raised the stakes for LaVerdiere's recent gallery exhibition, his first with Lehmann Maupin, in New York.
- They also understood that the war of ideas had to be fought by engaging in real-world controversies, with stakes wagered on the outcome.
- Sharply rising income inequality has raised the stakes of the economic game.
Synonyms bet, wager, ante, pledge, hazard - 1.1 A share or interest in a business, situation, or system.
GM acquired a 50 percent stake in Saab Example sentencesExamples - The joint ventures in a number of Scottish cities will operate under the Quality Street brand, but local partners will have a stake in the business.
- The key is Rupert's 30 per cent stake in the voting shares - 307.8 million out of 1.05 billion.
- He now has a 22.2 per cent stake in the business.
- Whatever the final outcome of the case, the delay in the ruling will provide time for deals to be struck by financial interests that have a stake in the dispute.
- Perera is thought to be the main shareholder in the company, although its staff has a 20 per cent stake through a staff share ownership scheme.
- Yang said the group wants foreign investors to take stakes in its business, but will insist that it be the controlling shareholder in any joint ventures.
- A group of seven airlines, including British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, has taken a 46 per cent stake in the system.
- Face it: top executives act more like owners when they have a stake in the business.
- It has proven to be successful in accommodating the differing interests that have a stake in the legislative process.
- Most people who tell you about the patent system have a stake in it, and so they want you to like it.
- This obviously means that the audience for our scholarship now includes all who have a stake in this bigger system.
- The Bronfman family's 7.5 per cent stake in the resulting business was worth $6.5 billion when the deal was struck.
- A 25.78 per cent stake - 261 352 shares - will be up for sale until February 17.
- Those who do have a stake in the current system - the teachers' union, for example - point to the schools' bad condition as a reason for the government to appropriate more money.
- A mediator is someone who does not have a stake in the business - a dispassionate third-party who can solve particularly sticky issues.
- Bendini & Shaw's owner, Harry O'Kelly, took a 25 per cent stake in the enlarged business.
- A number of Lake District private investors have taken a 30 per cent stake in the business, freeing up cash for further growth.
- Independent advisors often offer an impressive level of personal service because they have a stake in the business.
- With a 35 per cent stake in the business, Martin was once worth £35 million.
- A financial restructuring in May last year raised £1.6 million and lease obligations were converted into a 6.8 per cent share stake.
Synonyms share, interest, financial interest, investment, involvement, concern - 1.2stakes Prize money, especially in horse racing.
Example sentencesExamples - Former champion jockey Willie Carson said a Manchester racecourse would up the stakes in the sport - and propel the city into the world's richest league.
- Handicap stakes and prize money of that sort for a long-distance handicap at Musselburgh would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
- Even so, the real driving force behind such travel was not the railway but increased prize money or stakes which still came largely from the subscriptions of rich patrons.
- Those purses are rising more dramatically than the stakes and allowance races.
- Mecca Bingo in Regent Circus is angry that it will not be able to increase stakes and prize money when new legislation comes into force.
Synonyms prize money, purse, pot, winnings - 1.3stakesin names A horse race in which all the owners of the racehorses running contribute to the prize money.
the horse is to run in the Lexington Stakes Example sentencesExamples - Galileo also landed the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot and the Irish Derby.
- She also won the Dade Turf Classic Stakes at Ellis Park earlier this year.
- She was scratched out of Friday's Pocahontas Stakes at Churchill in favor of Saturday's race.
- She added to her credentials that afternoon when she took the Appalachian Stakes in her first attempt on the grass.
- She also won the Swettenham Stud Fillies Trial Stakes at Newbury for trainer Michael Jarvis.
- Earlier, Kieren Fallon's mount Nevisian Lad came through late to take the July Stakes.
- He sent out Turk Flyer to win the Oklahoma Classics Day Turf Stakes on October 22 at Remington.
- The £30,000 Unicorn Fleur de Lys Fillies' Stakes is the richest race on the card, and Zayn Zen may prove the answer.
- Frankie Dettori urged Grandera to the narrowest of wins over Hawk Wing in the Group One Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown on Saturday.
- All the action from day two of Flat racing's big meeting, where Grandera wins the Prince of Wales' Stakes, the big race of the day.
- After Epsom, the colt went on to win the Irish Derby and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot.
- Prior to that effort, she finished second in the Flawlessly Stakes at Hollywood Park on July 4.
- Wando had not won a stakes race since clinching the Triple Crown in the Breeders' Stakes at Woodbine last August.
- On July 3 at Arlington, the five-year-old son of Fit to Fight won the Better Bee Stakes.
- He exits a fifth-place finish in the John Henry Stakes at the Meadowlands on September 20.
- Comic Truth won the Jean Lafitte Stakes at Delta on November 24 for trainer Cole Norman.
- All the action from the first day of Flat racing's big meeting, where Rock of Gibraltar won the feature race, the St James' Palace Stakes.
- Earlier this year, he won the Claiming Crown Express Stakes at Philadelphia Park with Talknow.
- On May 7, the Saudi Arabia Royal Cup, the Oasis Stakes Race, was held at Tokyo Racetrack.
- Where Or When, who had beaten Hawk Wing in last season's Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, was a distant second with Olden Times third.
- 1.4stakeswith modifier A situation involving competition in a specified area.
we will keep you one step ahead in the fashion stakes Example sentencesExamples - They just want to protect their market share by teaming up with fellow soulmates to keep the competition in the superstition stakes at bay.
- Smart said yesterday that it was confident of taking on Eircom in the competition stakes.
- And nowhere are the financial and health stakes higher than in the area of cardiac surgery.
- Hats dominate the fashion stakes with racegoers.
- But he has competition in the style stakes from Dougray Scott, who has recently been linked with the role of James Bond because of his suave good looks.
Synonyms competition, contest, battle, challenge, rivalry, race, running, struggle, scramble
verbstāksteɪk [with object]1Gamble (money or something else of value) on the outcome of a game or race. one gambler staked everything he'd got and lost figurative it was risky to stake his reputation on one big success Example sentencesExamples - Such revelry was worsened by the heavy betting involved: £1, 000 could be staked on one game as players competed for such prizes as gloves and pieces of lace.
- The financial risks belonged to his wealthy patrons, while he staked his ambitious future.
- It's a fascinating read, and reveals the extent to which rakish elements amongst landowners and the aristocracy staked huge wagers on the outcome of sporting events.
- Here the bank would take half the money that had been staked on the paired cards.
- Although she had monitored the racing at Fairyhouse by teletext throughout Sunday afternoon, she had no idea that her first six wins meant she had €94,000 staked on the last race.
- One gambler staked £5,000 on snow in London on Friday.
- In Britain, £3 million a day is staked in online games.
- Still I'm thankful that I can pick and choose gigs, just playing for enjoyment and spare cash rather than having to stake my living on it.
- Sandra Noel deals carefully with the tragedy, not simply the loss of personal friends of her father, but almost a financial disaster as he had staked his all on returning with a record of victory.
- The total money staked by the players must not be more than what is currently in the bank, but within this limit you can bet any amount you wish.
- She wasn't staking any chances that he might skip out on her.
- On the Ladbrokes site there are up to 5,000 players online at any one time and more than $7 million is staked each day (dollars are the game's universal online currency).
- It just shows you can win big even when you haven't staked much money.
- Players who are not prepared to wager that their cards are best can drop out of the betting, sacrificing any money staked up to that point.
- The exercise is merely one of interest, as none of my own money has been staked in the past, nor will be in the future.
- The endowment mortgages, with-profits funds and private pensions on which people staked their futures are a national scandal.
- It was just over four years ago that the 57-year-old staked his future on bookmaking and he's now reaping the dividends as the formerly illicit world of gambling is undergoing a mainstream makeover.
- There was a sense, largely but not exclusively fostered by the new breed of genome-based private companies, that everyone was in a race to stake claims as fast as they could and reap huge profits from their discoveries.
- A once-in-a-lifetime chance to start a business of your own, for instance, may dictate staking everything you're worth on it.
- Four co-workers have decided to see if this idea is possible, staking a month's salary on who can stay inside the longest.
Synonyms bet, wager, place a bet of, lay, put on, gamble, pledge, chance, venture, risk, hazard 2North American informal Give financial or other support to. he staked him to an education at the École des Beaux-Arts Example sentencesExamples - His father had staked him some money to buy a limited partnership in Mostly Bull when the firm was still a calfling during the exuberant days when the Insecurity business was actually making money for some people.
Phrases 1To be won or lost; at risk. people's lives could be at stake Example sentencesExamples - But with little at stake it was perhaps not surprising there was little in the way of genuine action.
- For professional huntsman Richard Emmott the Government's ban means his job and home are at stake.
- However, those not prepared to take responsibility for what they do when drunk should be aware of what is at stake.
- What is at stake is not just the fate of a failed technology company.
- This is very depressing with the future of the world's climate at stake.
- The tempo of the game was at the highest point as both teams threw everything into the game with so much at stake.
- Huge sums of money are at stake, so timing and discretion are paramount.
- The risks are higher, the stakes lower and the goals would be considered laughable if so many lives were not at stake.
- How do you decide the bottom line, when people's lives or the world economy, are at stake?
- There are people's lives at stake and our country is up to it and the people here are up to it.
- Much more is at stake in the battle which is about to get under way.
2At issue or in question. the logical response is to give up, but there's more at stake than logic Example sentencesExamples - There are many issues at stake here, not least those of equity and social justice.
- Strenuous efforts were made to inform the people of the issues at stake in the Nice Treaty.
- The issues at stake are issues that people of faith need to confront.
- There does not seem to me to be a fundamental issue of jurisprudence at stake, but more a question of evidence.
- Each has said that the cash will come in handy, but there are more important issues at stake.
- But it should not be assumed without serious consideration of the issues at stake.
- There are several issues at stake here, but two stand out in particular.
- He says that there's a bigger issue at stake than simply the future of one 19th century building.
- However, there are more fundamental questions at stake, about the very meaning of right and wrong.
- This one makes you sift through the issues at stake in the election in Britain.
Origin Late Middle English: perhaps a specialized usage of stake, from the notion of an object being placed as a wager on a post or stake. |