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/ˈstænd/
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[ˈstænd]
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/ˈstand/
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[ˈstand]
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/ˈstand/
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[ˈständ]
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[ˈstæːnd]
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/ˈstɛnd/
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[ˈstɛnd]
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[ˈsteə̯nd]
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/ˈstænd/
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stænd
Verb
To position or be positioned physically: To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
Usage- copulative
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Please stand here.
Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
I can't reach the ceiling. Get me a chair to stand on.
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Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
At one time a "standard test" for carriage riding was to stand a pencil on end on the compartment floor, or to measure how long it was possible to stand on one leg without touching the corridor walls; […]
It’s recited in schools across the US every day by students standing stiffly with their hands over their hearts. […] The pledge made headlines this week after a sixth-grade student in Florida told a substitute teacher he would not stand for the pledge because he believed the American flag symbolized discrimination against blacks.
To position or be positioned physically: To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
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Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.
To position or be positioned physically: To remain motionless.
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Do not leave your car standing in the road.
The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
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The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
To position or be positioned physically: To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
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They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.
He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom […]
To position or be positioned physically: To place in an upright or standing position.
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He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
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At one time a "standard test" for carriage riding was to stand a pencil on end on the compartment floor, or to measure how long it was possible to stand on one leg without touching the corridor walls; [...].
To position or be positioned physically: To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
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Paris stands on the Seine.
The chapel ſtands on the South ſide of the ſquare, near the governor’s houſe.
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Las Vegas police say the number of people injured now stands at 515.
To position or be positioned physically: To measure when erect on the feet.
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His face, as I grant, in spite of spite / Has a broad-blown comeliness, red and white, / And six feet two, as I think, he stands; […]
She must stand five feet five—possibly six. At that, with the tread she has, she will take a 4½ to 5.
To position or be positioned physically: To be present, to have welled up.
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many an orphan’s water-standing eye
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now my heart beginneth to melt within me being wounded (with that the tears stood in his eyes) to see the faces of some here present, whom J most earnestly love, and now must depart from with shame […]
[He] pull’d me up again, and then giving me tvvo or three Kiſſes again, thank’d me for my kind yielding to him; and vvas ſo overcome with the Satisfaction and Joy of it, that I savv Tears ſtand in his Eyes.
He takes me half-price to the play, to an extent which I sometimes fear is beyond his means; and I see the tears a standing in his eyes during the whole performance […]
How he escaped a broken neck in that dreadful place no human being will ever ken. The sweat, he has told me, stood in cold drops upon his forehead […]
To position or be positioned mentally: To be positioned to gain or lose.
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He stands to get a good price for the house.
To position or be positioned mentally: To tolerate.
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I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.
I can’t stand him.
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[I]f you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.
To position or be positioned mentally: To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
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[R]eaders by whose judgment I would stand or fall […]
To position or be positioned mentally: To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
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The king granted the Jews[…]to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.
the standing pattern of their imitation
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"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
To position or be positioned mentally: To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
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sacrifices[…]which stood only in meats and drinks
Accomplish what your signs foreshow; / I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
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Thou seest how it stands with me[…], and that I may not tarry.
To position or be positioned socially: To act as an umpire.
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To position or be positioned socially: To undergo; withstand; hold up.
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The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.
Love stood the siege.
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Bid him disband his legions,[…]/ And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.
That not for Fame, but Virtue's better end, / He ſtood the furious Foe, the timid Friend, […]
To position or be positioned socially: To be a candidate (in an election).
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He is standing for election to the local council.
He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.
To position or be positioned socially: To remain valid.
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What I said yesterday still stands.
To position or be positioned socially: To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
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"Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. / "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron.
The game stopped while sides were sorted out. Andy did the sorting. "Okay," he said. "Jimmy is coming out. He and Gaston and Ike and me will stand you guys."
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"Hey, Louis," Dameon shouted. "Do you want to play kickball?" ¶ ""All right," said Louis. "Ron and I will both play." […] "Ron and I will stand everybody!" Louis announced.
To position or be positioned socially: To cover the expense of; to pay for.
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to stand a round of drinks
to stand a treat
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to stand bail (security in respect of an arrested person)
I will either stand a glass of grog, or thou shalt pay the like for me, my lad
To position or be positioned socially: To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
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Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
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President Obama gave his first extended television interview since the protests in Libya and Egypt to Telemundo on Wednesday night, and he took the opportunity to explain the U.S.'s role in the developing world while clarifying where the country stands with Egypt right now.
To position or be positioned socially: To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
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Doubt me not, by Heauen, I vvill doe nothing / But vvhat may ſtand vvith honour: […]
To position or be positioned socially: To appear in court.
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Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
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To repaire his defects, hee stood for the coast of Calabria, but hearing there was six or seven Galleyes at Mesina hee departed thence for Malta[…].
To remain without ruin or injury.
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My mind on its own centre stands unmov'd.
The ruin'd wall / Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.
To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
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The act of standing.
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I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings.
A defensive position or effort.
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The Commander says we will make our stand here.
A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
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They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.
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There are also a growing number of lesbians in prison who are out about being lesbian and that stand in and of itself is much stronger than being out on the outside. These women are in much greater danger.
A period of performance in a given location or venue.
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They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees.
They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.
A device to hold something upright or aloft.
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He set the music upon the stand and began to play. an umbrella stand; a hat-stand
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There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Whilst I nipped out to get the booze Eddie would ease the large bread stand at the far end of the shop out from the counter so as to leave a gap behind, big enouh to take the basket. I would streak into the shop like a whippet and be behind the bread stand before you could blink.
The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
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She took the stand and quietly answered questions.
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Shortly after Ellison started at Alameda around fall 2018 as a trader, she learned that the company was financially far sicker than she had known, she said on the stand.
An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
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When a member has failed to comply with his bargains the fact is announced from one of the stands, […]
Just as that clock is striking now, the two waiters appear on the stands and take off their hats, as if to a corpse.
A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
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This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.
Pernambuco is a coastal wood which grows in maintained stands in Brazil.
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.
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One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is at a stand, to think what should be in it, that men should love lies; where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie’s sake.
Antonia's patience now was at a stand— "Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there," She whispered[…]
A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
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a taxi stand
A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait. The place a shearer takes in a shearing shed.
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At the respective ‘stands’ assigned to them stood the rival foes, each silently adjusting his shearing paraphernalia.
The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
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a good, bad, or convenient stand for business
Grandstand. (often in the plural)
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Are your seats in the stands or on the floor?
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The end of the opening period was relatively quite [sic] as Vassiljev's desperate shot from well outside the penalty area flew into the stand housing the Irish supporters and then Ward's ctoss [sic] was gathered by goalkeeper Pareiko.
A partnership.
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England wrapped up a five-wicket victory in the first Test as a stand of 132 between Alastair Cook and Ian Bell saw off an early West Indies charge.
A single set of arms (weaponry).
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The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.
Rank; post; station; standing.
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Father, since your fortune did attain / So high a stand, I mean not to descend.
A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
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to be at a stand what to do
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.
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Come, I have found you out a stand most fit, / Where you may have such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass you.
An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
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The cost of the printing alone will average $2 a 'stand.' The sheets are about 28x42 inches and are in four colors, which means they must go through the process four times.
Crew of 14 billers and a four-man brigade will be 10 days ahead and will use all special paper including new jungle and animal designs being prepared by Enquirer Printing Company. New this season will be a 20-sheet poster depicting 21 K-M elephants parading to local Chevrolet agencies. Deal calls for use of the 20-sheet on poster panels where the auto agency has space allotment. Smaller versions of the same art also will be used. Circulation of Kelly-Miller heralds, which last season averaged between 5,000 and 6,000 copies per stand, will be in for one of the greatest boosts this year.
A group of flamingos.
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Woodland Park’s stand of flamingos are all past breeding age
But he loves taking pictures of all critters, he said, and noticed a stand of flamingos wading in a salt pond.
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An anteater at a Swedish zoo massacred a stand of flamingos
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A container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask.
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Item, for a ſtande of small ale - ii s.
[…]one gialfatte, 3 stannes 3s.,[…]
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Therefore at length sir Iefferie bethought him of a feat whereby he might both visit the alestond, and also keepe his othe.
Memp. Ile teach my wag-halter to know grapes from barley. Pris. And I mine to discerne a spigot from a faucet. Spe. And I mine, to iudge the difference between a blacke boule and a siluer goblet. Stel. And mine shall learne the oddes betweene a stand and a hogs-head; yet I cannot choose but laugh to see how my wag aunswered mee, when I stroke him for drinking sacke.
As for the Tapſter, he fled into the Cellar, rapping out fiue or ſixe plaine Country oathes, that hée would drowne himſelfe in a moſt villanous Stand of Ale, if the ſicke Londoner ſtoode at the doore any longer.
I have the rareſt Stand of Ale to drink out in the Afternoon, with three or four honeſt Country-fellows;
[…]that he may have leave to meet ſome few Neighbours to duſt a ſtand of Ale[…]
All his war ſtore of proviſions conſiſted in three ſtands of barbicued veniſon, till he had an opportunity to revenge blood, and return home.
First dip me in a stand o milk, / And then a stand o water;
A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
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Noun
a support or foundation
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the base of the lamp
the position where a thing or person stands
a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area
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they cut down a stand of trees
a small table for holding articles of various kinds
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a bedside stand
a support for displaying or holding various articles
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the newspapers were arranged on a rack
an interruption of normal activity
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a mental position from which things are viewed
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we should consider this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians
teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events
a booth where articles are displayed for sale
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a stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance
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a one-night stand
tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade)
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a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air
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a defensive effort
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the army made a final stand at the Rhone
Verb
be standing; be upright
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We had to stand for the entire performance!
be in some specified state or condition
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I stand corrected
occupy a place or location, also metaphorically
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We stand on common ground
hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright
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I am standing my ground and won't give in!
put up with something or somebody unpleasant
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I cannot bear his constant criticism
The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks
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he learned to tolerate the heat
She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage
have or maintain a position or stand on an issue
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Where do you stand on the War?
remain inactive or immobile
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standing water
be in effect; be or remain in force
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The law stands!
be tall; have a height of; copula
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She stands 6 feet tall
put into an upright position
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Can you stand the bookshelf up?
withstand the force of something
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The trees resisted her
stand the test of time
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The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow
be available for stud services
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Stallions are standing for stud service on the designated farm