English Dictionary

staff

/stɑːf/

noun

(plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.

The staff members are working hard to meet the deadline.

意味（1）

(plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.

And thus ſhall ye eate it [the lamb]: with your loines girded, your ſhooes on your feet, and your ſtaffe in your hand: and ye ſhall eate it in haſte: it is the Lords Paſſeouer.

意味（2）

(music, plural staffs or staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.

意味（3）

(plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business.

The company employed 10 new members of staff this month.

意味（4）

(uncountable) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.ᵂ

意味（5）

A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.

a constable's staff

意味（6）

A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.

意味（7）

(archaic) The rung of a ladder.

I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves.

意味（8）

A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.

Mr. Cowley had found out, that no kind of Staff is proper for an Heroick Poem; as being all too lirical:

意味（9）

(engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.

意味（10）

(surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.

意味（11）

(military) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.

At the head of that division which had Westminster Bridge for its approach to the scene of action, Lord George Gordon took his post; with Gashford at his right hand, and sundry ruffians, of most unpromising appearance, forming a kind of staff about him.