Stood vs. Stayed — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Stood and Stayed
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Stood
Past tense and past participle of stand.
Stayed
To continue to be in a place or condition
Stay home.
Stay calm.
Stood
Simple past tense and past participle of stand
This morning a bloke stood next to me wearing nothing but sandals.
Stayed
To remain or sojourn as a guest or lodger
Stayed at a motel.
Stayed
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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Stayed
To continue or persist in an action or activity
Stayed with the original plan.
Stayed in college.
Stayed
To keep up in a race or contest
Tried to stay with the lead runner.
Stayed
(Games) To meet a bet in poker without raising it.
Stayed
(Archaic) To stop moving or stop doing something.
Stayed
To remain during
Stayed the week with my parents.
Stayed the duration of the game.
Stayed
To stop or restrain; check
Doubt stayed his hand.
Stayed
To suspend by legal order the implementation of (a planned action), especially pending further proceedings
Stay a prisoner's execution.
Stayed
To satisfy or appease temporarily
Stayed his anger.
Stayed
(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).
Stayed
To brace, support, or prop up
The tower is stayed with cables.
Stayed
To put (a ship) on the opposite tack or to come about.
Stayed
A brief period of residence or visiting.
Stayed
The order by which a planned action is stayed.
Stayed
The consequence of such an order.
Stayed
The act of halting; check.
Stayed
The act of coming to a halt.
Stayed
A support or brace.
Stayed
A strip of bone, plastic, or metal, used to stiffen a garment or part, such as a corset or shirt collar.
Stayed
Stays A corset.
Stayed
(Nautical) A heavy rope or cable, usually of wire, used as a brace or support for a mast or spar.
Stayed
A rope used to steady, guide, or brace.
Stayed
Simple past tense and past participle of stay
Stayed
Staid; fixed; settled; sober; - now written staid. See Staid.
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