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Meaning Of Stand

  1. n.
    To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position
  2. n.
    To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc.
  3. n.
    To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation.
  4. n.
    To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine.
  5. n.
    To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.
  6. n.
    To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources.
  7. n.
    To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
  8. n.
    To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
  9. n.
    To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.
  10. n.
    To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
  11. n.
    To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
  12. n.
    To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
  13. n.
    To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor.
  14. n.
    To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate.
  15. n.
    To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless.
  16. n.
    To measure when erect on the feet.
  17. n.
    To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide.
  18. n.
    To appear in court.
  19. v. t.
    To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the cold or the heat.
  20. v. t.
    To resist, without yielding or receding; to withstand.
  21. v. t.
    To abide by; to submit to; to suffer.
  22. v. t.
    To set upright; to cause to stand; as, to stand a book on the shelf; to stand a man on his feet.
  23. v. t.
    To be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to stand a treat.
  24. v. i.
    The act of standing.
  25. v. i.
    A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand.
  26. v. i.
    A place or post where one stands; a place where one may stand while observing or waiting for something.
  27. v. i.
    A station in a city or town where carriages or wagons stand for hire; as, a cab stand.
  28. v. i.
    A raised platform or station where a race or other outdoor spectacle may be viewed; as, the judge's or the grand stand at a race course.
  29. v. i.
    A small table; also, something on or in which anything may be laid, hung, or placed upright; as, a hat stand; an umbrella stand; a music stand.
  30. v. i.
    A place where a witness stands to testify in court.
  31. v. i.
    The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business.
  32. v. i.
    Rank; post; station; standing.
  33. v. i.
    A state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do.
  34. v. i.
    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.
  35. v. i.
    A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, -- used in weighing pitch.



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