Staying vs. Living — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Staying and Living
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Staying
To continue to be in a place or condition
Stay home.
Stay calm.
Living
Possessing life
Famous living painters.
Transplanted living tissue.
Staying
To remain or sojourn as a guest or lodger
Stayed at a motel.
Living
In active function or use
A living language.
Staying
To linger or wait in order to do or experience something
We stayed to watch the final minutes of the game.
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Living
Of persons who are alive
Events within living memory.
Staying
To continue or persist in an action or activity
Stayed with the original plan.
Stayed in college.
Living
Relating to the routine conduct or maintenance of life
Improved living conditions in the city.
Staying
To keep up in a race or contest
Tried to stay with the lead runner.
Living
Full of life, interest, or vitality
Made history a living subject.
Staying
(Games) To meet a bet in poker without raising it.
Living
True to life; realistic
The living image of her mother.
Staying
(Archaic) To stop moving or stop doing something.
Living
Still in place as part of a larger mass. Used especially of rock
“In a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stone sat the Elvenking on a chair of carven wood” (J. R. R. Tolkien). “Carved into a sandstone cliff face towered over by 18,000-foot peaks stood the colossal Buddhas.
Staying
To remain during
Stayed the week with my parents.
Stayed the duration of the game.
Living
Having motion suggestive of life. Used especially of water
“The rippling of living waters, the song of birds, the joyous confidence of flowers, the calm, undisturbable grandeur of the oaks, mark this place ... as one of the Lord's most favored abodes of life and light” (John Muir).
Staying
To stop or restrain; check
Doubt stayed his hand.
Living
(Informal) Used as an intensive
Beat the living hell out of his opponent in the boxing match.
Staying
To suspend by legal order the implementation of (a planned action), especially pending further proceedings
Stay a prisoner's execution.
Living
The condition or action of maintaining life
The high cost of living.
Staying
To satisfy or appease temporarily
Stayed his anger.
Living
A manner or style of life
Preferred plain living.
Staying
(Archaic) To wait for; await
"I will not stay thy questions. Let me go.
/ Or if thou follow me, do not believe / But I shall do thee mischief in the wood" (Shakespeare).
Living
A means of maintaining life; livelihood
Made their living by hunting.
Staying
To brace, support, or prop up
The tower is stayed with cables.
Living
Chiefly British A church benefice, including the revenue attached to it.
Staying
To put (a ship) on the opposite tack or to come about.
Living
Present participle of live
Staying
A brief period of residence or visiting.
Living
Having life; alive.
A living, breathing child
Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.
Staying
The order by which a planned action is stayed.
Living
In use or existing.
Hunanese is a living language.
Staying
The consequence of such an order.
Living
Of everyday life.
These living conditions are deplorable.
Staying
The act of halting; check.
Living
True to life.
This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
Staying
The act of coming to a halt.
Living
Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.
Staying
A support or brace.
Living
Continually updated; not static
HTML is a living standard.
Staying
A strip of bone, plastic, or metal, used to stiffen a garment or part, such as a corset or shirt collar.
Living
Used as an intensifier.
He almost beat the living daylights out of me.
Staying
Stays A corset.
Living
(uncountable) The state of being alive.
Staying
(Nautical) A heavy rope or cable, usually of wire, used as a brace or support for a mast or spar.
Living
Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
What do you do for a living?
Staying
A rope used to steady, guide, or brace.
Living
A style of life.
Plain living
Staying
Present participle of stay
Living
(canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.
Staying
A stay or visit.
Living
Being alive; having life; as, a living creature. Opposed to dead.
Living
Active; lively; vigorous; - said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle.
Living
Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; - opposed to stagnant.
Living
Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening.
Living
Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live.
Then on the living coals wine they pour.
Living
The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.
Living
Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living.
Living
Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate; as, to make a comfortable living from writing.
She can spin for her living.
He divided unto them his living.
Living
Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.
There is no living without trusting somebody or other in some cases.
Living
The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.
He could not get a deanery, a prebend, or even a living
Living
The experience of living; the course of human events and activities;
He could no longer cope with the complexities of life
Living
People who are still living;
Save your pity for the living
Living
The condition of living or the state of being alive;
While there's life there's hope
Life depends on many chemical and physical processes
Living
The financial means whereby one lives;
Each child was expected to pay for their keep
He applied to the state for support
He could no longer earn his own livelihood
Living
Pertaining to living persons;
Within living memory
Living
True to life; lifelike;
The living image of her mother
Living
Dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination;
Living quarters
Tree-living animals
Living
(informal) absolute;
She is a living doll
Scared the living daylights out of them
Beat the living hell out of him
Living
Still in existence;
The Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil
The only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania
Living
Still in active use;
A living language
Living
(used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried;
Carved into the living stone
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