Look up stake in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Stake may refer to:

• In business, a stake is a share of ownership of a company.^[1]
• Stake (Latter Day Saints), an administrative unit of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other Latter Day Saint denominations
• Execution by burning, to ancient Christians, a stake was a pole to which people accused of heresy or witchcraft were tied and "burned at the stake"
• A torture stake, a method of execution similar to crucifixion using a single pole or stake in lieu of a cross, killing the victim by asphyxiation, or in the case of Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs, nailed to an instrument similar to a cross but without a horizontal crossbar . See impalement.
• "STAKES" is the official acronym of the former Finnish National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, now part of the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare

Objects

• A stake is a long, pointed object thrust into the ground. Stakes have many applications, such as demarcating a small plot of land, anchoring guy ropes for a tent or other portable structure, or slowly releasing fertilizer to aid the growth of plants
  • In folklore and mythology, a wooden stake have special powers to kill certain monsters via impalement. See vampire.
• Sudis (stake), field fortification carried by Roman legionaries
• A stake is a polished iron shape, very firmly mounted, used by silversmiths in the manner of a blacksmith's anvil.

Games

• In gambling, a stake is the quantity of money or other goods that is risked on the outcome of some specific event
  • As a result, many horse races' names end in the word "Stakes", causing metaphoric usages such as "an animal winning the reproduction stakes".
• Stake: Fortune Fighters, the 2003 Xbox game

Anime and Manga

• The Stakes of Purgatory from Umineko no Naku Koro ni.

[edit] References

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.