Stake may refer to:
Entertainment
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Stake: Fortune Fighters'', a 2003 video game
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The Stake
''The Stake'' is a 1915 American silent short drama film starring William Garwood in the lead role with Violet Mersereau
Violet Mersereau (October 2, 1892 – November 12, 1975) was an American stage and film actress. Over the course of her ...
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* "The Stake", a 1977 song by The Steve Miller Band from ''
Book of Dreams''
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''Stakes'' (miniseries), a Cartoon Network miniseries, aired as part of the seventh season of ''Adventure Time''
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Stake (band)
People
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Dagnija Staķe
Dagnija Staķe (born 3 September 1951, Vietalva parish) is a Latvian politician (Latvian Farmers' Union) and the Minister of Regional Development and Local Governments of Latvia
Minister may refer to:
* Minister (Christianity), a Christian cle ...
(born 1951), Latvian politician
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Robert E. Stake Robert E. Stake (born December 18, 1927) is a Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Stake is a native of Adams, Nebraska. After earning a PhD in Psychometrics at Princeton University in 1958, he assumed the ...
(born 1927), Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Companies
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Stake (platform), an Australian financial services company
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Stake.com, an online casino
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@stake
ATstake, Inc. was a computer security professional services company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1999 by Battery Ventures (Tom Crotty, Sunil Dhaliwal, and Scott Tobin) and Ted Julian. Its initial core team of techno ...
, a computer services company
Other uses
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Equity (finance)
In finance, equity is ownership of assets that may have debts or other liabilities attached to them. Equity is measured for accounting purposes by subtracting liabilities from the value of the assets. For example, if someone owns a car worth $ ...
stake, the part of a company or business owned by a shareholder
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Stake (Latter Day Saints)
A stake is an administrative unit composed of multiple congregations in certain denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. The name "stake" derives from the Book of Isaiah: "enlarge the place of thy tent; stretch forth the curtains of thine ha ...
, a regional organization in some Latter Day Saint churches
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Hill of Stake
Hill of Stake is a hill on the boundary between North Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, Scotland.
Geography
The hill is 522 metres (1712 feet) high and is the highest point of the relatively low-lying county of Renfrewshire and indeed the entire ...
, a hill on the boundary between North Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, Scotland
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Sudis (stake)
The ''sudis'' (plural ''sudes'') was a stake carried by Roman legionaries for employment as a field fortification, sometimes also called ''vallus''. It is frequently, but incorrectly, called a ''pilum murale'' ("wall spear"). Typically, two such ...
(Latin for "stake"), a fortification carried by Roman legionaries
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Archer's stake
An archer's stake was an anti-cavalry defence used by longbowmen in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Origins
At the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396 Turkish archers were stationed behind a barrier of stakes. This may have inspired Henry V when he instr ...
, a defensive stake carried by medieval longbowmen
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Survey stakes
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Control of alignment and grade during construction is established through the use of survey stakes. Stakes are generally made of wood in different sizes. Based on the use of the stake they are called ''alignment stakes'', ''o ...
, markers used by surveyors
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Torture stake
Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross or beam and left to hang until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation. It was used as a punishment by the Persians, Carthagin ...
, a method of execution similar to crucifixion, tying or nailing the victim to an upright pole in lieu of a cross
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Stakes race
Glossary of North American horse racing:
Additional glossaries at:
*Glossary of Australian and New Zealand punting
*Glossary of equestrian terms
This is a basic glossary of equestrian terms that includes both technical terminology and jargon ...
, a type of horse race
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Staking (manufacturing) Staking is the process of connecting two components by creating an interference fit between the two pieces. One workpiece has a hole in it while the other has a boss (engineering), boss that fits within the hole. The boss is very slightly undersized ...
, a process for connecting two components
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Poker staking
The following is a glossary of poker terms used in the card game of poker. It supplements the glossary of card game terms. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon poker slang terms. This is not intended to be ...
, financial backing a player
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Staker
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Stanchion
A stanchion () is a sturdy upright fixture that provides support for some other object. It can be a permanent fixture.
Types
In architecture stanchions are the upright iron bars in windows that pass through the eyes of the saddle bars or horizo ...
, a kind of stake
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Staking (disambiguation)
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Steak (disambiguation)
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Steel fence post
A steel fence post, also called (depending on design or country) a T-post, a Y-post, or variants on star post, is a type of fence post or picket. They are made of steel and are sometimes manufactured using durable rail steel. They can be used to ...
, a kind of stake
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