Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Words Described by "Stave"

  1. pipe
  2. pipes
  3. paper
  4. church
  5. rastrum
  6. lines
  7. score
  8. churches
  9. tanks
  10. hammock

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. line
  2. wooden
  3. treble
  4. first
  5. single
  6. long
  7. musical
  8. utter
  9. second
  10. last

What Google Knows

In Western musical notation, the staff, also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.

Related Definition

  1. stave:

    n One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.

    n One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel

    n (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

    n (music) The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

    n (poetry, rare) The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.

    n A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.

    n A staff or walking stick.

    v (transitive) To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.

    v (transitive, usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.

    v (transitive, with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.

    v (transitive, usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.

    v (intransitive, rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.

    v (intransitive, old-fashioned or dialect) To walk or move rapidly.

    v To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.

    v To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.

    n A surname.


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