English Dictionary

stale

/steɪl/

adj

(alcoholic beverages, obsolete) Clear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong. / No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.

The beer tasted stale after sitting in the fridge for too long.

意味（1）

(alcoholic beverages, obsolete) Clear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong.

The stronger Beere is divided into two parts ( viz.) mild and stale; the first may ease a man of a drought, but the later is like water cast into a Smiths forge, and breeds more heartburning, and as rust eates into Iron, so overstale Beere gnawes auletholes in the entrales, or else my skill failes, and what I have written of it is to be held as a jest.

意味（2）

No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.

Stale as breed or drinke is, rassis. Stale as meate is that begynneth to savoure, viel.

意味（3）

No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed, dated.

Better is...be it new or stale, A harmelesse lie, than a harmefull true tale.

意味（4）

(obsolete) No longer nubile or suitable for marriage, in reference to people; past one's prime.

Rosimunda...hathe an vncle a stale batcheler.

意味（5）

(in general) Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.

In most states, you can be ticketed for failing to clear the intersection, even if you are hemmed in by traffic. One good clue to a stale green light is the pedestrian signal.

意味（6）

(agriculture, obsolete) Fallow, in reference to land.

Lime would do very little or no good on stale ploughed lands.

意味（7）

(law) Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.

a stale affidavit

意味（8）

Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.

By this means the [horse's] legs are not made more stale than necessary.

意味（9）

(finance) Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.

Stale cheque,...a cheque which has remained unpaid for some considerable time.

意味（10）

(computing) Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.

The bug was found to be caused by stale data in the cache.