English Dictionary

stake

IPA（発音記号）

/steɪk/

名詞

定冠詞付き モルモン教

A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.

日本語の意味

杭：地面に打ち込んで目印、支持、または固定のために使われる、通常は細長く一端が尖っている木材やその他の素材の片。

She hammered the stake into the ground to mark the tent's corner.

彼女はテントの角を示すために、杭を地面に打ち込みました。

意味（1）

A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.

We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.

意味（2）

(croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.

意味（3）

A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.

意味（4）

(with definite article) The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.

Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.

意味（5）

A share or interest in a business or a given situation.

The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.

意味（6）

That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.

意味（7）

A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.

意味（8）

(Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.

Every city, or stake, including a chief town and surrounding towns, has its president, with two counselors; and this president has a high council of chosen men.

stakes （ plural ）