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.
- We may stand, and "_stand still_," on very dangerous ground.
- 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.
- Gucci Group must now make the label stand on its own, apart from the personality that made it.
- Ruth Ellen Brosseau apparently agreed to have her name stand for election because a friend in NDP headquarters asked her to.
- The Associated Press recently said it will let its version of the title stand and Bowl Championship Series officials have yet to decide.
- The Associated Press recently said it will let its version of the title stand, and Bowl Championship Series officials have yet to decide.
- - ANN usagijen: Does the "S" there in the title stand for "Skinny", coz it seems like the characters are suffering from anorexia nervosa.
- The same can be said for a remake, because you want to preserve the original while including some new elements that makes the title stand out from the original.
- Last December, the CALM Act was passed in the U.S. the initials in the name stand for Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation requiring the Federal Communications Commission to keep TV networks in line.