stand
IPA: stˈænd
noun
- The act of standing.
- A defensive position or effort.
- A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
- A period of performance in a given location or venue.
- A device to hold something upright or aloft.
- The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
- (historical) An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
- A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
- (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
- A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
- A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
- (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
- (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural)
- (cricket) A partnership.
- (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
- (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.
- (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
- A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
- A location or position where one may stand.
- (advertising) An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
- (fiction) A type of psychically created being in the anime and manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, named for the fact that they appear to 'stand' next to their user.
- (US, Scotland, dated) A container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask.
- (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
- (US, historical) Short for tavern stand (“a roadside inn”). [(US, historical) A roadside inn.]
verb
- To position or be positioned physically:
- (intransitive, copulative) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
- (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
- (intransitive, copulative) To remain motionless.
- (intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
- (transitive) To place in an upright or standing position.
- (intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
- (intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet.
- (intransitive, of tears, sweat, etc.) To be present, to have welled up.
- To position or be positioned mentally:
- (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.
- (transitive, chiefly in the negative) To tolerate.
- (intransitive, copulative) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
- (intransitive, copulative) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
- (intransitive, copulative, obsolete) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
- To position or be positioned socially:
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire.
- (transitive) To undergo; withstand; hold up.
- (intransitive, Britain) To be a candidate (in an election).
- (intransitive) To remain valid.
- (transitive) To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
- (transitive) To cover the expense of; to pay for.
- (intransitive) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
- (intransitive) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
- (intransitive) To appear in court.
- (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
- (intransitive, copulative) To remain without ruin or injury.
- (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
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Examples of "stand" in Sentences
- The man is standing stately.
- As it stands, it's irretrievable.
- A tepee stands in the background.
- As the article stands, it's slanderous.
- The policies stand and they are not negotiable.
- A funnel is insertable in the neck of the stand.
- He stands in the left foreground, holding a scalpel.
- The moral standing of the hack has no bearing on the science.
- Next to him stands the attendant holding the boat of incense.
- Kelly holds an oversized cricket bat on the left and stands on the right.
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