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stave noun

  /steɪv/
  • 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.
(боча́рная) клёпка
  • A staff or walking stick.
клюка́, по́сох, трость
  • (music) The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
но́тный стан, нотоно́сец
  • One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
па́лка, шест
  • (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
стих, строфа́

staff noun

  /stæf/ , /stɑːf/ , [staf] , [steəf] , [stäf] , [stäːf] , [stæf] , [stɐːf] , [stɑːf] , [stɛəf]
  • (military) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
штаб
  • (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
штат, кадр, персона́л
  • (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
жезл, па́лка, по́сох
  • (music, plural staffs or staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.
но́тный стан
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