stale
suomi-englanti sanakirjastale englannista suomeksi
lorottaa
väljähtänyt, ummehtunut, kulunut, väljähtynyt
kuivahtanut, vanhentunut
Substantiivi
stale englanniksi
(quote-book)
longer|No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
{{quote-text|en|year=1530|author=John Palsgrave|url=http://books.google.fr/books?id=8asFAAAAQAAJ|title=L'éclaircissement de la langue française|section=325 2
(circa), ''Wyll of Deuill'', C 2 b:
{{quote-text|en|year=2012|author=Stephen Woodworth|title=In Golden Blood: Number 3 in series
No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.
{{quote-text|en|year=1562|publisher=J. Heywood|title=Proverbs & Epigrams|year_published=1867|section=95
1579, in G. Harvey, letter book, 60:
- Doist thou smyle to reade this stale and beggarlye stuffe.
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)
{{quote-journal|en|year=1822|month=March|author=Charles Lamb|journal=London Magazine|section=284 1
{{quote-text|en|year=2002|author=Mark Lawson|title=And They Rose Up: Days of Retribution
No longer nubile or suitable for marriage, in reference to people; past one's prime.
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1580|author=J. Jeffere|title=Bugbears|section=I ii 108
{{quote-journal|en|year=1742|author=T. Short|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society|section=42 226
Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.
{{quote-text|en|year=2014|author=David L. Hough|title=Street Strategies for Motorcyclists
{{quote-text|en|year=1764|title=Museum Rusticum|section=II 306
Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
(ux)
{{quote-text|en|year=1769|author=William Blackstone|title=Common Laws of England|section=IV xv 211
out|Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
{{quote-text|en|year=1856|chapter=Stonehenge|title=Manual of British Rural Sports|section=II i vi §7 335
{{quote-journal|en|date=May 28 1885|journal=Truth|section=853 2
of date|Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
{{quote-text|en|year=1901|title=Business Terms & Phrases|section=second edition, 199
Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
{{quote-text|en|year=1874|author=Thomas Hardy|title=Far from the Madding Crowd|section=II iii 39
{{quote-text|en|year=1937|author=George Orwell|title=Road to Wigan Pier|section=I i 15
To make stale; to age order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer).
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1440|title=Promp. Parv.|section=472 1
{{quote-text|en|year=1826|title=Art of Brewing|section=second edition, 106
To make stale; to cause to go of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.
{{quote-text|en|year=1601|author=Ben Jonson|title=Fountaine of Self-love|section=36
(RQ:Jonson Every Man in His Humour)
(RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra)
{{quote-text|en|year=1863|author=W. W. Story|title=Roba di Roma|section=I i 7
To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
{{quote-text|en|year=1717|author=E. Erskine|title=Serm. in Wks.|section=50 1
{{quote-text|en|year=1893|chapter=Q|title=Delectable Duchy|section=325
(quote-text)
To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
{{quote-text|en|year=1742|author=W. Ellis|title=London & Country Brewer|edition=4th|section=I 64
{{quote-text|en|year=1742|author=W. Ellis|title=London & Country Brewer|edition=4th|section=I 61
{{quote-journal|en|date=February 4 1890|journal=Manchester Guardian|section=12 3
{{quote-text|en|year=1887|author=W. D. Parish; et al|title=Kentish Dial.
{{quote-text|en|year=1553|translator=J. Brende|author=Q. Curtius Rufus|title=Hist.|section=IX
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1611|translator=G. Chapman|author=Homer|title=Iliad|section=IV 173
To make a ladder by joining rungs ("stales") between the posts.
{{quote-text|en|year=1492|title=Archæol. Cant.|section=XVI 304
A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line.
{{quote-text|en|year=1625|author=Francis Bacon|title=Essays|section=65
An ambush.
{{quote-text|en|year=1513|translator=G. Douglas|author=Virgil|title=Æneid|section=XI x 96
{{quote-journal|en|year=1577|author=R. Holinshed|journal=Chron|section=II 1479 2
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1540|translator=J. Bellenden|author=H. Boece|title=Hyst. & Cron. Scotl.|section=XII xvi 184
1577, R. Holinshed, ''Hist. Scotl.'', 471 2 in ''Chron.'', I:
- The Lard of Drunlanrig lying al thys while in ambush...forbare to breake out to gyue anye charge vppon his enimies, doubting least the Earle of Lennox hadde kept a stale behynde.
{{quote-text|en|year=1532|year_published=1836|title=State Papers Henry VIII|section=IV 626
At a standstill; stalemated.
(circa), Ashmolean MS 344, 21:
- Then drawith he & is stale.
To stalemate.
(circa), ''Ashmole'' MS 344, 7:
- He shall stale þe black kyng in the pointe þer the crosse standith.
{{quote-text|en|year=1903|author=H. J. R. Murray|title=Brit. Chess. Mag.|section=283
To be stalemated.
{{quote-text|en|year=1597|author=A. Montgomerie|title=Cherrie & Slae|section=202
Urine, especially used of horses and cattle.
(quote-text)|title=Isaiah|section=XXXVI.100
{{quote-text|en|year=1548|author=Robert Record|title=Vrinal of Physick|section=XI.89
{{quote-text|en|year=1583|author=B. Melbancke|title=Philotimus
(RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes)
{{quote-text|en|year=1698|author=J. Fryer|title=New Acct. E.-India & Persia|page=242
{{quote-text|en|year=1733|author=W. Ellis|title=Chiltern & Vale Farming|page=122
To urinate, especially used of horses and cattle.
15th century, ''Lawis Gild'', X in ''Ancient Laws and Customs of the Burghs of Scotland'', 68:
{{quote-text|en|year=1530|author=John Palsgrave|url=http://books.google.fr/books?id=8asFAAAAQAAJ|title=L'éclaircissement de la langue française|section=732 1
(RQ:Jonson Bartholomew Fair)
{{quote-text|en|year=1663|author=T. Killigrew|title=Parson's Wedding|section=I iii
{{quote-text|en|year=1903|author=Rudyard Kipling|title=Five Nations|section=150
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1920|author=Aleister Crowley|title=Leigh Sublime
{{quote-text|en|year=1928|author=Siegfried Sassoon|title=Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man|page=35|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2013
A live bird to lure of prey or others of its kind into a trap.
{{quote-text|en|year=1579|author=Thomas North|title=Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans|chapter=Sylla|section=515
{{quote-text|en|year=1608|translator=R. Tofte|author=Ludovico Ariosto|title=Satyres|section=IV 56
Any lure, particularly in reference to people used as live bait.
(circa), "(w)", 324, in (w), ''Certayne Bokes'':
{{quote-text|en|year=1577|author=Raphael Holinshed|title=Chronicles|chapter=The Historie of England, from the Time that It Was First Inhabited, Vntill the Time that It Was Last Conquered|section=79 2
{{quote-text|en|year=1615|author=George Sandys|title=A Relation of a Iourney begun An: Dom: 1610|section=I 66
{{quote-text|en|year=1670|author=J. Eachard|title=Grounds Contempt of Clergy|section=88
An accomplice of a thief or criminal acting as bait.
{{quote-text|en|year=1526|author=W. Bonde|title=Pylgrimage of Perfection|section=III
{{quote-text|en|year=1633|author=S. Marmion|title=Fine Compan.|section=III iv
a partner whose beloved abandons or torments him favor of another.
{{quote-text|en|year=1578|author=J. Lyly|title=Euphues|section=33
{{quote-text|en|year=1588|author=T. Hughes|title=Misfortunes Arthur|section=I ii 3
{{quote-text|en|year=1611|author=T. Middleton; et al|title=Roaring Girle
(RQ:Shakespeare Comedy of Errors)
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)
A patsy, a pawn, someone used under some false pretext to forward another's (usu. sinister) designs; a horse.
1580, E. Grindal in 1710, J. Strype, ''Hist. E. Grindal'', 252:
- That of the two nominated, one should be an unfit Man, and as it were a Stale, to bring the Office to the other.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-3)
{{quote-text|en|year=1614|author=W. Raleigh|title=Hist. World|section=I iv iii §19 239
{{quote-text|en|year=1711|author=J. Puckle|title=Club|section=20
A prostitute of the lowest sort; any wanton woman.
(RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing)
{{quote-text|en|year=1606|author=S. Daniel|title=Queenes Arcadia|section=II i
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1641|author=Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu|Ralph Montagu|title=Acts & Monuments|section=265
Any decoy, either stuffed or manufactured.
{{quote-text|en|year=1681|author=J. Flavell|title=Method of Grace|section=XXXV 588
{{quote-text|en|year=1888|author=G. M. Fenn|title=Dick o' the Fens|section=53
{{quote-text|en|year=1557|title=Tottel's Misc.|section=198
14th c., Stockh. Medical MS. in ''Anglia'' XVIII.299:
- (quote)þat þer stale mown not holde.
{{quote-text|enm|year=1340|title=Ayenbite|section=9
stealth (qualifier)
{{quote-text|enm|year=c. 1240|chapter=Sawles Warde|title=Cott. Hom.|section=249
An upright of a ladder.
{{quote-text|enm|year=c. 1315|title=Shoreham Poems|section=I 49
12th century, ''Sidonius Glosses'' in ''Anecd. Oxon.'', I v 59 22:
- (quote)
(circa), Langland, ''Piers Plowman'' (Vesp. MS), C xxii 279:
A shoot of a plant.
a fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line
(circa), in C. L. Kingsford, ''Chrons. London'' (1905), 123:
{{quote-text|enm|year=1485|author=Thomas Malory|title=Le Morte d'Arthur|section=V xi 179
{{quote-text|enm|year=1423|title=Kingis Quair|section=CLXIX
an ambush
{{quote-text|enm|year=c. 1425|title=Wyntoun Cron.|section=IX viii 811
(circa), in N. H. Nicolas, ''Hist. Royal Navy'' (1847), II 491:
14th century, ''Morte Arthur'', 1355:
A live bird to lure of prey or others of its kind into a trap
{{quote-text|enm|year=c. 1440|title=Promp. Parv.|section=472 1
(circa), ''K. Horn'' (Laud), 383:
{{quote-text|enm|year=c. 1386|author=Geoffrey Chaucer|title=Sir Thopas|section=52
Stalemated in chess.
(RQ:zlw-opl:Reg)
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