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Stay (Rihanna song)
"Stay" is a 2012 piano ballad by Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko from Unapologetic, written by Ekko, Justin Parker, and Elof Loelv; it peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 4 in the UK, earning a Best Pop Duo/Group Performance Grammy nomination.
Stay (The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber song)
"Stay" (STAY) is a 2021 song by The Kid LAROI featuring Justin Bieber from F*CK LOVE 3+, built on Charlie Puth's piano riff. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 7 weeks, ARIA for 13, and was #1 in 22 countries.
Stay Alive
Stay Alive (2006) is a horror film directed by William Brent Bell, co-written with Matthew Peterman, about a video game whose players die in real life; it earned $23.1M and 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Stay cable
A stay cable is a tensioned steel member running directly from a bridge tower to the deck, the defining element of cable-stayed bridges since Sweden's Strömsund Bridge of 1955.
Stay cable systems
A stay cable system is the complete engineered product that carries a cable-stayed or extradosed bridge deck in tension from deck to pylon, including strands, anchorages, and dampers.
Stay Close
Stay Close is a British eight-episode Netflix mystery miniseries premiered December 31, 2021, adapted from Harlan Coben's 2012 novel, starring Cush Jumbo, Richard Armitage, and James Nesbitt, set in Blackpool, with a 92% Rotten Tomatoes critics score.
Stay Low
Stay Low is an independent boutique record label and talent management company in Johannesburg, South Africa, founded in 2020 under Steyn Entertainment, with artists including Priddy Ugly and lordkez.
Stay of execution
Stay of execution: a court order temporarily postponing enforcement of a death sentence, granted under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2251 and 2262, Supreme Court five-vote rule, AEDPA limits, and 2024 emergency-docket practice.
Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, also Mr. Stay Puft, is the giant sailor-suited marshmallow mascot villain of Ghostbusters (1984), Gozer's destructor form chosen by Ray Stantz; created by Dan Aykroyd, performed by suit-maker Bill Bryan, and later a franchise mascot and toy line.
Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)
"Stay with Me" is a 2014 soul ballad by Sam Smith, also credited to Jimmy Napes and Tourist, from In the Lonely Hour; it hit number two on the Hot 100, won 2015 Grammys for Record and Song of the Year, and carries a 12.5% Tom Petty/Jeff Lynne songwriting credit.
Stay With Me (哥哥你别跑)
Stay With Me (哥哥你别跑, Ge Ge Ni Bie Pao) is a 2023 Chinese youth BL drama directed by Su You Chen, starring Xu Bin and Zhang Jiong Min as stepbrothers Wu Bi and Su Yu; a remake of Addicted, released overseas on YouTube and Viki.
Stay-at-home mother
Stay-at-home mother: a mother not employed for pay outside the home, also called homemaker or housewife. In 2012, 29% of U.S. mothers (10.4 million) were at home; 34% lived in poverty.
Stay-cable maintenance and monitoring
Stay-cable maintenance and monitoring is the inspection, condition assessment, and replacement of stay cables on cable-stayed bridges, where corrosion hidden inside anchorages threatens service life.
STAYC (스테이씨)
STAYC (스테이씨) is a six-member South Korean girl group (Sumin, Sieun, Isa, Seeun, Yoon, J) that debuted November 12, 2020 under High Up Entertainment, the label of producers Black Eyed Pilseung, known for the teen-fresh concept and hit "ASAP".
Staycation
Staycation: blend of "stay" and "vacation," a holiday spent at home or nearby with day trips, or in British usage any domestic holiday. Coined mid-20th century, popularized in the 2008 recession and COVID-19 pandemic.
Staygreen protein
Staygreen protein (SGR, NYE1), a conserved chloroplast Mg-dechelatase that initiates chlorophyll degradation during leaf senescence; sgr mutants stay green, including Mendel's pea.
Stayin' Alive
Stayin' Alive: 1977 Bee Gees disco hit from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, US number 1, tempo about 103 bpm, widely used as the mental metronome for CPR chest compressions.
Staying Alive (1983 film)
Staying Alive is a 1983 American musical drama directed and co-written by Sylvester Stallone, the sequel to Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta as Brooklyn dancer Tony Manero.
Staying Alive (soundtrack)
Staying Alive: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (RSO, 1983) is the album for the sequel to Saturday Night Fever, pairing five new Bee Gees songs with Frank Stallone's 'Far From Over'; it peaked at number 6 in the US and number 1 in Switzerland.
Stayman convention
Stayman convention, the artificial 2♣ response to a 1NT bridge opening asking for a four-card major, developed 1945 by Samuel Stayman (invented by George Rapee); answers 2♦, 2♥, 2♠; used with Jacoby transfers.
Staythorpe C power station
Staythorpe C power station is a gas-fired combined cycle power station at Staythorpe, near Newark in Nottinghamshire, England, operated by RWE and connected to the grid in 2010.
STC Orlan-10
The Orlan-10 is a Russian tactical reconnaissance UAV produced by the Special Technology Centre of St Petersburg and used to locate targets for artillery in Syria and Ukraine.
Stc1 domain
Stc1 domain, also called the stanniocalcin family domain (pfam03298, InterPro IPR004978/IPR043069), is the conserved cysteine-rich region of stanniocalcin proteins: ten conserved cysteines, an 11th dimerization cysteine, and an N-glycosylation motif, found from fish to humans.
Std1/Mth1
Std1/Mth1, paralogous Rgt1 corepressors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae glucose sensing (MTH1, YDR277C). Glucose triggers Yck1/2 phosphorylation, SCF-Grr1 ubiquitination, and proteasomal degradation of both, derepressing HXT transporter genes; Mth1 is the primary regulator, Std1 a buffer.
sTDA
sTDA (simplified Tamm–Dancoff approximation) is a semiempirical method developed by Stefan Grimme at the University of Bonn that computes electronic excitation energies and UV/Vis spectra cheaply.
Ste-Cécile Paleochristian Church
Ste-Cécile Paleochristian Church (église paléochrétienne de Sainte-Cécile), Loupian, Hérault: early 5th-century single-vessel church, 35 m long with hexagonal baptistery, 800 m from the villa des Prés-Bas; excavated 1987-1989, distinct from the 14th-century Gothic Sainte-Cécile church beside it.
Ste-Lucie
Ste-Lucie (Sainte-Lucie, Île de Sainte-Lucie) is a limestone island and peninsula at Port-la-Nouvelle, Aude, France, quarried since Roman times for the pierre de Sainte-Lucie used in Narbo Martius, and now a 825-hectare regional nature reserve created in 2009.
Ste-Marguerite-sur-Mer
Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, formerly Caprimont and Quievremont, is a Normandy cliff-top commune on the Côte d'Albâtre 13 km from Dieppe, with a major Gallo-Roman villa and the 1942 No. 4 Commando Orange beach landing.
Steacie Ice Cap
Steacie Ice Cap, a 5,100 km2 ice cap on southwestern Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada, one of the island's two major ice caps with Müller Ice Cap, drained by the advancing Good Friday Glacier.
Steadicam
Steadicam, invented by Garrett Brown and patented in 1974, is a body-worn vest, iso-elastic arm, and counterweighted sled camera stabilizer with a three-axis gimbal; it debuted in Bound for Glory (1976), was famed in Rocky and The Shining, and is now owned by Tiffen.