Crossword-Solution: STASIS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stasis | n. | A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STASIS | anagram | ASSIST |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
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Sentences with STASIS (5)
But are words really consistent; are there not as many terms of praise which signify rest as which signify motion? There is episteme, which is connected with stasis, as mneme is with meno.
Assuming this foreign root kiein, and allowing for the change of the eta and the insertion of the nu, we have kinesis, which should have been kieinsis or eisis; and stasis is the negative of ienai (or eisis), and has been improved into stasis.
Eight hundred years of intellectual activity--thirty generations of greatness; then eight hundred years of stasis--thirty generations of mediocrity; such seems to be the record as viewed in perspective.
That, perhaps, is one reason why we come to a period of stasis or retrogression when the time of classical activity is over.
For the dark star, though its molecular activities have come to relative stability and impotence, still retains the enormous potentialities of molar motion; and clearly, where motion is, stasis is not.
Quotes with STASIS (3)
If we look through the aperture which we have opened up onto the absolute, what we see there is a rather menacing power--something insensible, and capable of destroying both things and worlds, of bringing forth monstrous absurdities, yet also of never doing anything, of realizing every dream, but also every nightmare, of engendering random and frenetic transformations, or conversely, of producing a universe that remains motionless down to its ultimate recesses, like a cloud b…
I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up.
Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 94 times in crossword archives (1970–2025).