The difference between Lodge and Stay over

When used as verbs, lodge means to be firmly fixed in a specified position, whereas stay over means stay overnight in a place away from one's home, sleep over.


Lodge is also noun with the meaning: a building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.

check bellow for the other definitions of Lodge and Stay over

  1. Lodge as a noun:

    A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.

  2. Lodge as a noun:

    Porter's or caretaker's rooms at or near the main entrance to a building or an estate.

  3. Lodge as a noun:

    A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.

  4. Lodge as a noun (US):

    A local chapter of a trade union.

  5. Lodge as a noun:

    A rural hotel or resort, an inn.

  6. Lodge as a noun:

    A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.

  7. Lodge as a noun:

    A den or cave.

  8. Lodge as a noun:

    The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.

  9. Lodge as a noun (mining):

    The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Raymond"

  10. Lodge as a noun:

    A collection of objects lodged together.

  11. Lodge as a noun (historic):

    An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household. A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.

    Examples:

    "The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals."

  1. Lodge as a verb (intransitive):

    To be firmly fixed in a specified position.

    Examples:

    "I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth."

    "The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree."

  2. Lodge as a verb (intransitive):

    To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.

    Examples:

    "The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street."

  3. Lodge as a verb (intransitive):

    To stay in any place or shelter.

  4. Lodge as a verb (transitive):

    To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.

  5. Lodge as a verb (transitive):

    To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.

  6. Lodge as a verb (transitive):

    To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).

  7. Lodge as a verb (intransitive):

    To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

    Examples:

    "The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge."

  1. Stay over as a verb:

    Stay overnight in a place away from one's home, sleep over.

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