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To position or be positioned physically:; To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.copulativeintransitive
- 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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To position or be positioned physically:; To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.intransitive
- Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.
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To position or be positioned physically:; To remain motionless.copulativeintransitive
- Do not leave your car standing in the road.
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To position or be positioned physically:; To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.intransitive
- He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom […]
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To position or be positioned physically:; To place in an upright or standing position.transitive
- He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
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To position or be positioned physically:; To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.intransitive
- Paris stands on the Seine.
- Las Vegas police say the number of people injured now stands at 515.
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To position or be positioned physically:; To measure when erect on the feet.intransitive
- 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.
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To position or be positioned physically:; To be present, to have welled up.intransitiveusually
- many an orphan’s water-standing eye
- 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 […]
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To position or be positioned mentally:; To be positioned to gain or lose.intransitivewith-infinitivewith-to
- He stands to get a good price for the house.
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To position or be positioned mentally:; To tolerate.transitive
- I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.
- I can’t stand him.
stand
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The act of standing.
- I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings.
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A defensive position or effort.
- The Commander says we will make our stand here.
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A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
- They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.
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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.
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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
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The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
- She took the stand and quietly answered questions.
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An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.historical
- 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.
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A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
- This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.
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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.
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A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
- Antonia's patience now was at a stand— "Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there," She whispered[…]
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A container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask.ScotlandUSdated
- Item, for a ſtande of small ale - ii s.
- […]one gialfatte, 3 stannes 3s.,[…]
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A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.obsolete