Crossword clues for stamina
stamina
- Hanging on
- Am captivated by newly-made Saint’s endurance
- Flower parts
- Triathlete's need
- Mountain climber's need
- Triathlete's asset
- Lasting power
- Triathlete's quality
- Marathon runner's need
- Lasting ability
- Ultramarathoner's need
- Target of some herbs and pills
- Tantric sex requirement
- Power to endure
- Physical endurance
- Marathoners' need
- Marathon-runner's forte
- It's needed to finish a marathon
- It helps you go the extra mile
- It can keep you going
- Ironman competitor's need
- Athlete's lasting power
- Asset for dance marathon competitors
- Ability to sustain prolonged effort
- Strength for a Tough Mudder competitor
- Marathoner's need
- Staying power
- Legs
- Endurance — staying power
- Workhorse's quality
- Marathoner's asset
- Something a long-distance runner needs
- Enduring strength and energy
- Marathoner's requirement
- Miler's sine qua non
- Miler's need
- What rash dieters lose
- Enduring energy
- Endurance shown by southern girl touring America
- Endurance refitting mast in Antarctica, primarily
- Endurance of running man is boosted by cheers
- Working out, Nat aims for staying power
- Way dictator primarily augments ability to maintain power
- Strength enlivens pirouettes lacking in energy
- Staying power enlivens without energy returning
- Sit awkwardly with a man, revealing bottom
- Produces cartoon films, returning without energy or staying-power
- I'm Santa, moving around, showing ability to keep going
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stamen \Sta"men\ (st[=a]"m[e^]n), n.; pl. E. Stamens (-m[e^]nz) (used only in the second sense); L. Stamina (st[a^]m"[i^]*n[.a]) (in the first sense). [L. stamen the warp, a thread, fiber, akin to Gr. sth`mwn the warp, fr. 'ista`nai to stand, akin to E. stand. See Stand, and cf. Stamin, Stamina.]
A thread; especially, a warp thread.
(pl. Stamens, rarely Stamina.) (Bot.) The male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.
Stamina \Stam"i*na\ (st[a^]m"[i^]*n[.a]), n. pl. See Stamen.
Stamina \Stam"i*na\, n. pl.
The fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it strength and solidity; as, the bones are the stamina of animal bodies; the ligneous parts of trees are the stamina which constitute their strength.
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Whatever constitutes the principal strength or support of anything; backbone; vigor; as, the stamina of a constitution or of life; the stamina of a State.
He succeeded to great captains who had sapped the whole stamina and resistance of the contest.
--De Quincey. Hence: The power of endurance; the ability to withstand fatigue, disease, deprivation, etc., and continue working.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "rudiments or original elements of something," from Latin stamina "threads," plural of stamen (genitive staminis) "thread, warp" (see stamen). Sense of "power to resist or recover, strength, endurance" first recorded 1726 (originally plural), from earlier meaning "congenital vital capacities of a person or animal;" also in part from use of the Latin word in reference to the threads spun by the Fates (such as queri nimio de stamine "too long a thread of life"), and partly from a figurative use of Latin stamen "the warp (of cloth)" on the notion of the warp as the "foundation" of a fabric. Related: Staminal.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable now considered singular English) The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc. 2 (context botany rare English) (plural of stamen English)Category:English plurals 3 (context obsolete as plural English) The basic elements of a thing; rudimentary structures or qualities.
WordNet
n. the male reproductive organ of a flower
[also: stamina (pl)]
n. enduring strength and energy [syn: staying power, toughness]
See stamen
Wikipedia
Stamina may refer to:
- Endurance, the ability of an organism to exert itself and remain active for a long period of time, as well as its ability to resist, withstand, recover from, and have immunity to trauma, wounds, or fatigue
- Stamen (plural: stamina), the male organ of a flower
- Stamina (horse) (1905–1930), American racehorse
- Stam1na, a Finnish heavy metal band
- Stamina therapy, a controversial alternative medical treatment based on stem cells
Stamina (1905–1930) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that was the historical top 2-year-old and 3-year-old filly in the United States in 1907 and 1908, respectively. Through his 1907 racing season, he was trained by future Hall of Fame inductee, John W. Rogers. On the death of Rogers in early 1908, another future Hall of Fame inductee, Jack Joyner, took over.
Usage examples of "stamina".
Then Brat eased the pressure momentarily, and Clint, taking it for granted that a falling back so near the post argued failing stamina, was glad that he would not have to ask his mount for the last ounce and relaxed a little.
Jesuits in seventeenth-century Spain, never recognized by Rome nor even by the Society, but persisting with grace and stamina there in California for hundreds of years the place had acquired extensions and outbuildings, got wired and rewired, plumbed and replumbed, until a series of bad investments had forced what was left of the sodality to put it up for rent and disperse to cheaper housing, though they continued to market the world-famous cucumber brandy bearing their name.
If Malik escapes now, will Silvercloud have the stamina to catch him again?
While it was true he had more power and stamina in his felidae form, he was worn out both mentally as well as spiritually, and his physical strength was waning.
To live longer and best protect your joints from the onslaught of impact, the best stamina workouts you can do are swimming, rowing, cycling, and exercising on an elliptical machine.
This patient has recuperated from his zombi trance, entirely through his own stamina.
Southwest deserts perhaps a tired salesman assigned to a territory so vast that it tested his stamina dazed by the daunting distances between destinations, by sun-silvered highways that seemed to go on forever.
In it, he was sitting at home in front of the television, trying to concentrate on the football game as his shrewish, dough-faced wife, dressed in a food-stained dressing gown, hectored him about his sleeping with Delia, the cute secretary from the steno pool, and how she was going to sue him for a divorce and collect a fat alimony, on which she was going to move to Mexico and enjoy the good life, and if that included a hot-blooded young Mexican with the stamina of a stallion, so much the better.
They on the other hand, catch bronchitis, or flu, seem unable to have the stamina to recuperate from it, and die with surprising ease.
Leading the fight against the Three-Year Law, he insisted in his speeches and in his book UArmee nouvelle that the war of the future would be one of mass armies using every citizen, that this was what the Germans were preparing, that reservists of twenty-five to thirty-three were at their peak of stamina and more committed than younger men without responsibilities, that unless France used all her reservists in the front line she would be subjected to a terrible “submersion.
The oval-shaped, sweet balums were believed to endow one with prolonged physical stamina.
I've seen other cadremen who could match or even exceed your physical dexterity, your stamina, your hand-eye coordination, your IQ.
I had talked all night, and no clubgoers had stamina enough to stay here that long.
He was handsome, had great stamina, and his body seemed chiseled from hard cocobolo wood.
To save the nation, that collection of connivers and nonentities around Lincoln needed the invigoration of a man with organizational genius, unparalleled stamina, and a willingness to use power.