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Definitions: Mainstay |
MainstayNoun1. A prominent supporter; "he is a pillar of the community". 2. A central cohesive source of support and stability: "faith is his anchor"; "he is the linchpin of this firm". 3. The forestay that braces the mainmast. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mainstay" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: MainstaySynonyms: anchor (n), backbone (n), linchpin (n), lynchpin (n), pillar (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hope | Anchor, sheet anchor, mainstay; staff; (support); heaven. |
Refuge | Anchor, kedge; grapnel, grappling iron; sheet anchor, killick; mainstay; support; cheek; ballast. |
Support | Columella, backbone; keystone; axle, axletree; axis; arch, mainstay. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mainstay |
| Specialty definitions using "mainstay": Fast Fourier Transform. (references) |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Miranda v. Arizona | 1966 | The privilege against self-incrimination, which has had a long and expansive historical development, is the essential mainstay of our adversary system, and guarantees to the individual the "right to remain silent unless he chooses to speak in the unfettered exercise of his own will," during a period of custodial interrogation as well as in the courts or during the course of other official investigations. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Good supportive care in a hospital is the mainstay of therapy for all forms of botulism. (references) | |
However, in the foreseeable future, homologous blood will continue to be the therapeutic mainstay. (references) | ||
Surgery is the mainstay of treatment for benign as well as cancerous tumors of the adrenal glands. (references) | ||
Business | Corded CPE and public switching systems are the mainstay of Taiwan's telecommunications equipment industry. (references) | |
However, the mainstay of the air force continues to be the 1960s-vintage F-7, and naval forces still consist primarily of 1960s-era technology. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | China | In July, reportedly in response to publishing criticisms of CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin's plans to allow entrepreneurs into the Communist Party, the Central Party Propaganda Department suspended publication of the leftist journals Pursuit of Truth and Mainstay. (references) |
Economic History | Afghanistan | Grain production is Afghanistan's traditional agricultural mainstay. (references) |
Cyprus | Assistance from Turkey is the mainstay of the Turkish Cypriot economy. (references) | |
Political Economy | Afghanistan | In previous years, opium poppy cultivation was the mainstay of the economy and largely financed the military operations of various factions. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mainstay" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mainstay" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 128 | 28,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mainstay suite | 365 |
mainstay | 126 |
mainstay funds | 74 |
hotel mainstay | 27 |
mainstay inn | 19 |
mainstay suite pigeon forge | 15 |
mainstay mutual funds | 11 |
mainstay suite louisville | 7 |
mainstay suite hotel | 7 |
mainstay suite peabody | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mainstay"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mbështetje kryesore, shtyllë (backbone, bankseat, bearing, column, pile, pillar, pole, post, staff, stanchion, standard, stock, tower), litar përforcues përgjatë direkut. (various references) | |
Arabic | عماد (pole), الحبل المثبت للشراع, دعامة أساسية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | устои (abut), гротщаг, опора (abut, anchor, anchorage, backlog, bearer, bulwark, buttress, column, cradle, crutch, dependence, faith, foothold, holder, jamb, lodgement, lodgment, palladium, pillar, prop, purchase, rampart, rest, rock, roothold, sinews, staff, stand by, stay, stock, stronghold, support, tower, underpinning). (various references) | |
Chinese | "柱 , 中流 柱. (various references) | |
Czech | hlavní stìh, úhelní kamen. (various references) | |
Farsi | نقطه اتکاء (Pivot, Stay), وابستگی عمده , تکیه گاه اصلی . (various references) | |
Finnish | tukipylväs (column, pedestal, pier, pillar, stanchion, supporting column, supporting pillar), tuki (bearing, brace, instep support, pillar, prop, prop agent, proppant, propping agent, reinforcement, shore, sprag, stake, stiffener, stiffening, strut, support). (various references) | |
French | soutien, pilier, base, étai de grande mât. (various references) | |
German | hauptstütze (main support). (various references) | |
Greek | κύριο στήριγμα, στυλοβάτησ (prop, stylobate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משען עקרי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | oszlop (column, file, pile, pillar, prop, rectifier, stanchion, standard, support), fõ támasz (main support). (various references) | |
Indonesian | andalan (chief seat, security pledge). (various references) | |
Italian | perno (axis, axle, bearing neck, dowel, gib, gudgeon, gudgeon pin, hinge, hub, journal, kingpin, pin, pintle, piston pin, pivot, spindle, stud, support, swivel, trunnion). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 重鎮 (authority, leader), 中枢 (backbone, central figure, centre, key man, nucleus, pillar, pivot). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きか" (already published, boiler, engine, facility, feedback, flagship, gauge, hunger and cold, instrument, key, mechanism, mirror, nucleus, organ, paragon, pattern, period, quarterly, repatriation, return, returning to one'sship, term, trachea, wonderful sight, your letter), しゅびかえ, やたいぼね (framework, support, supporter), じゅうち" (authority, leader), ちゅうすう (arithmetical mean, backbone, central figure, centre, key man, nucleus, pillar, pivot), ちゅうけ" (backbone, center field, center fielder, faithful dog, main body, nucleus), い"くばしら (central pillar). (various references) | |
Korean | 기간 (Period). (various references) | |
Manx | stay vooar. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ainstaymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mola principal, estai do mastro grande. (various references) | |
Romanian | straiul arborelui mare, sprijin temeinic, sprijin principal. (various references) | |
Russian | опора (anchorage, bearing, bracket, crutch, footing, handhold, prop, pylon, reliance, rock, seat, shore, staff, steadies, support, supporter, thrust), оплот (backstop, bulwark, citadel, fastness, palladia, rampart, stronghold). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | glavna potpora. (various references) | |
Spanish | sostén principal, pilar (anchor, cairn, column, flip-chip pillar, pedestal, pier, pillar, pillars, pipe, post, stanchion, stilt, strut, support, supporting column), estay mayor. (various references) | |
Swedish | storstag, stöttepelare (kingpin, linchpin, pillar). (various references) | |
Turkish | dayanak noktası (anchor, purchase), ana istralya. (various references) | |
Ukranian | грота-штаг, головна підтримка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trụ cột, rường cột (sinew). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | firmamenta, firmamenti, firmamento, firmamentum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mainstay": mainstays. (additional references) | |
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"Mainstay" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ainstey, Ainsty, aminatat, Mainsty, maminst, Manasty, Manisty, Minzatu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-m-n-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: stamina. | |
-2 letters: animas, atmans, manats, manias, mantas, mantis, matins, sanity, satiny. | |
-3 letters: amain, amias, amins, amity, amnia, anima, antas, antis, antsy, atman, atmas, ayins, mains, maist, manas, manat, mania, manta, matin, mayan, mayas, mayst, minas, mints, minty, misty, mynas, nasty, saint, satay, satin, stain, stimy, tains, tamis, tansy. | |
-4 letters: aims, ains, aits, amas, amia, amin, amis, anas, anis, ansa, anta, anti, ants, atma, ayin, main, mana, mans, many, mast, mats, maya, mays, mina, mint, mist, mity, myna, nays, nims, nits, sain, sati, sima, smit, snit, stay, tain, tams, tans, tins, tiny, tyin, yams, yins. | |
-5 letters: aas, aim, ain, ais, ait, ama, ami, ana, ani, ant, any, ays, ins, ism, its, man, mas, mat, may, mis, nam, nay, nim, nit, sat, say, sim, sin, sit, sty, syn, tam, tan, tas, tin, tis, yam, yin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-m-n-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: mainstays. | |
+2 letters: amyotonias, myasthenia. | |
+3 letters: metanalysis, myasthenias, mythomanias, syntagmatic. | |
+4 letters: gynecomastia, microanalyst, monastically, mythomaniacs, semantically, unmistakably. | |
+5 letters: complaisantly, gymnastically, gynecomastias, metaphysician, microanalysts, onomastically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 69 6E 73 74 61 79 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .. -. ... - .- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110011 01110100 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a i n s t a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0069 006E 0073 0074 0061 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767758085866791 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Historic 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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