The difference between Staff and Stave
When used as nouns, staff means a long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking, whereas stave means one of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure.
When used as verbs, staff means to supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members, whereas stave means to break in the staves of.
check bellow for the other definitions of Staff and Stave
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Staff as a noun (plural [[staffs]] or [[staves]]):
A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
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Staff as a noun (music, plural [[staves]]):
A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written.
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Staff as a noun (plural staff or staffs):
The employees of a business.
Examples:
"The company employed 10 new members of staff this month."
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Staff as a noun (uncountable):
A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.W
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Staff as a noun:
A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
Examples:
"a constable's staff'"
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Staff as a noun:
A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
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Staff as a noun (archaic):
The rung of a ladder.
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Staff as a noun:
A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
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Staff as a noun (engineering):
An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
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Staff as a noun (surgery):
The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
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Staff as a noun (military):
An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
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Staff as a verb (transitive):
To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.
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Staff as a noun:
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Stave as a noun:
One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
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Stave as a noun:
One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
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Stave as a noun (poetry):
A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
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Stave as a noun (music):
The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
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Stave as a noun:
A staff or walking stick.
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Stave as a noun:
A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
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Stave as a verb (transitive):
To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Often with in.
Examples:
"to stave in a cask"
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Stave as a verb (transitive):
To push, as with a staff. With off.
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Stave as a verb (transitive):
To delay by force or craft; to drive away. Often with off.
Examples:
"to stave off the execution of a project"
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Stave as a verb (intransitive):
To burst in pieces by striking against something.
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Stave as a verb (intransitive):
To walk or move rapidly.
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Stave as a verb:
To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
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Stave as a verb:
To furnish with staves or rundles.
Examples:
"rfquotek Knolles"
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Stave as a verb:
To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
Examples:
"to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run"