stand

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Synonyms: staid, strand, sand, stend, stank, stang, shand, stan, stans, stond, stant

Antonyms: staid, strand, sand, stend, stank, stang, shand, stan, stans, stond, stant

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Verb

1. To position or be positioned physically: To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
   • Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
   • I can't reach the ceiling. Get me a chair to stand on.
   • Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.
   • Do not leave your car standing in the road.
   • He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
   • Paris stands on the Seine.
2. To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
   • Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
   • I can't reach the ceiling. Get me a chair to stand on.
3. To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
   • Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.
4. To remain motionless.
   • Do not leave your car standing in the road.
5. To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
6. To place in an upright or standing position.
   • He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
7. To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
   • Paris stands on the Seine.
8. To measure when erect on the feet.
9. To be present, to have welled up.
10. To position or be positioned mentally: To be positioned to gain or lose.
    • He stands to get a good price for the house.
    • I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.
    • I can’t stand him.
11. To be positioned to gain or lose.
    • He stands to get a good price for the house.
12. To tolerate.
    • I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.
    • I can’t stand him.
13. To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
14. To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
15. To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
16. To position or be positioned socially: To act as an umpire. To undergo; withstand; hold up.
    • The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.
    • He is standing for election to the local council.
    • What I said yesterday still stands.
    • to stand a round of drinks
    • to stand a treat
    • to stand bail (security in respect of an arrested person)
    • Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
17. To act as an umpire.
18. To undergo; withstand; hold up.
    • The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.
19. To be a candidate (in an election).
    • He is standing for election to the local council.
20. To remain valid.
    • What I said yesterday still stands.
21. To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
22. To cover the expense of; to pay for.
    • to stand a round of drinks
    • to stand a treat
    • to stand bail (security in respect of an arrested person)
23. To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
    • Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
24. To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
25. To appear in court.
26. Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
27. To remain without ruin or injury.
28. To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.

Noun

1. The act of standing.
2. A defensive position or effort.
   • The Commander says we will make our stand here.
3. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
   • They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.
4. A period of performance in a given location or venue.
   • They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees.
   • They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.
5. A device to hold something upright or aloft.
   • He set the music upon the stand and began to play. an umbrella stand; a hat-stand
6. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
   • She took the stand and quietly answered questions.
7. An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
8. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
   • This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.
9. 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.
10. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
11. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
12. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
    • a taxi stand
13. The place a shearer takes in a shearing shed.
14. The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
    • a good, bad, or convenient stand for business
15. Ellipsis of tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).
16. Grandstand.
    • Are your seats in the stands or on the floor?
17. A partnership.
18. A single set of arms (weaponry).
19. Rank; post; station; standing.
20. A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
    • to be at a stand what to do
21. 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.
22. A location or position where one may stand.
23. An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
24. A group of flamingos.

Noun

1. A container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask.
2. A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.

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