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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Continue in a place, position, or situation
Example:
She continued as deputy mayor for another year
Synonyms:
continue; remain; stay; stay on
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "stay on" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stay on"):
hold over (continue a term of office past the normal period of time)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
Since then, the installation of emergency modules has made it possible for Brazilians to stay on the station and research to continue.
(Brazil ship off to Antarctica for research support, Agência Brasil)
Fortunately, Mars in Sagittarius will help you stay on top of your finances, so this month may be the end of the heavy-duty outgo from your account.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The researchers also tested the device’s combined light and drug delivery potential when they made mice that have light-sensitive VTA neurons stay on one side of a cage by commanding the implant to shine laser pulses on the cells.
(Futuristic brain probe allows for wireless control of neurons, NIH)
With enough ice sitting at the surface — within the top few millimeters — water would possibly be accessible as a resource for future expeditions to explore and even stay on the Moon, and potentially easier to access than the water detected beneath the Moon's surface.
(Ice Confirmed at the Moon's Poles, NASA)
But it refreshed me and filled me with such agreeable sensations that I resolved to prolong my stay on the water, and fixing the rudder in a direct position, stretched myself at the bottom of the boat.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
And Cheese-Face, ready to drop and die, or to stay on his legs and die, a grisly monster out of whose features all likeness to Cheese-Face had been beaten, wavered and hesitated; but Martin sprang in and smashed him again and again.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
