Meaning of stand | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask.
   Scotland, US, dated
2. The act of standing.
3. To act as a stand-in.
4. A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
   obsolete
5. A defensive position or effort.
6. To take up positions for action.
7. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
8. A period of performance in a given location or venue.
9. To have a chance, as of gaining or accomplishing something.
10. A device to hold something upright or aloft.
11. Sports To make numerous sprawling or dramatic saves. Used of a goalie.
    Sports
12. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
13. To be independent and responsible for oneself.
14. An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
    historical
15. To be consistent with reason: It stands to reason that if we leave late, we will arrive late.
16. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
17. To confront fearlessly; face up to.
18. 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.
19. To act as best man or maid of honor for (the groom or bride) at a wedding.
20. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
21. To aid the cause of by approving or favoring:advocate, back, champion, endorse, get behind, plump for, recommend, side with, stand by, support, uphold.
22. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
23. To act as a substitute:fill in, substitute, supply.
24. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
25. The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
    US, dated
26. Ellipsis of tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).
    US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historical
27. Grandstand. (often in the plural)
28. A partnership.
29. A single set, as of arms.
30. Rank; post; station; standing.
    obsolete
31. A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
    dated
32. 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.
33. A location or position where one may stand.
34. An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.

Equivalents

Examples

“I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings.”

“The Commander says we will make our stand here.”

“They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.”

“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.”

“They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees.”

“They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.”

“He set the music upon the stand and began to play.  an umbrella stand;  a hat-stand”

“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.”

“She took the stand and quietly answered questions.”

“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.”

“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.”

“This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.”

“Pernambuco is a coastal wood which grows in maintained stands in Brazil.”

“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 taxi stand”

“a good, bad, or convenient stand for business”

“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.”

“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.”

“The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.”

“Father, since your fortune did attain / So high a stand, I mean not to descend.”

“to be at a stand what to do”

“Come, I have found you out a stand most fit, / Where you may have such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass you.”

“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.”

“Item, for a ſtande of small ale - ii s.”

“[…]one gialfatte, 3 stannes 3s.,[…]”

“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;”

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