stand up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands up
form: standing up
form: stood up
form: stood up
Etymology: From Middle English standen up, from Old English standan up; equivalent to stand + up. Compare Old Norse standa upp.
Senses: examples: text: Stand up, then sit down again.
text: He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.[…]But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again[…]she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
glosses: To rise from a lying or sitting position.
examples: text: Laura stood the sofa up on end.
glosses: To bring something up and set it into a standing position; to set something up.
examples: text: John stood Laura up at the movie theater.
text: — What?! Why did you come HERE then? You should be at a hospital!
— A gentleman never stands a lady up.
ref: 2008 Oct. 20, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content 1255: Consummate
glosses: (stand someone up) To avoid a prearranged meeting, especially a date, with (a person) without prior notification; to jilt or shirk.
examples: text: Both Venus 5 and Venus 6 had apparently stood up well under the rigors of their 217-million-mile trips.
ref: 1969 May 23, “Planetary Exploration: Doubleheader on Venus”, in Time:
glosses: To last or endure over a period of time.
raw_tags: of a thing
examples: text: Ehrlichman's story did not stand up under Neal's grilling.
ref: 1974 December 23, “Watergate: Getting Out What Truth?”, in Time:
text: This kind of evidence wouldn't stand up in court.
ref: 2013, Dennis Ford, Things Don't Add Up: A Novel of Kennedy Assassination Research:
glosses: To continue to be believable, consistent, or plausible.
raw_tags: of a person or narrative
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To stand immediately behind the wicket so as to catch balls from a slow or spin bowler, and to attempt to stump the batsman.
raw_tags: of a wicket-keeper
examples: text: It was a dreadful goal to concede as Ariel Ibagaza was able to take a short corner and then receive the return ball in space on the left. He stood up a floated cross into the middle where Fuster arrived unmarked to steer a header into the corner.
ref: 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To launch, propel upwards
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To formally activate and commission (a unit, formation, etc.).
examples: text: But my biblical and theological commitments tell me we need to stand up and be counted for the issues of neighbor care and creation care. We need to speak up.
ref: 2008, Lindy Scott, Christians, the Care of Creation, and Global Climate Change, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 4:
text: We're a lion sitting under the tree, watching the hyenas as they stalk our territory. They're coming right up to us. They scratch. They push. They're eating our food! At a certain point, we need to remember that we're a f***ing lion. We need to stand up, and we need to f**ing roar!
ref: 2015, Jeremy Gutsche, Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas, Crown, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Don't we as citizens deserve the truth? We need to stand up and demand answers.
ref: 2015, Christopher Bollen, Orient, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 160:
text: We need to stand up and stop this happening right here right now. China needs to know the United States will not tolerate the wholesale thievery of U.S. technology and trade secrets.
ref: 2017, BusinessNews Publishing, Summary: Time to Get Tough: Review and Analysis of Donald Trump's Book, Primento, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: To make one's voice heard, to speak up.
examples: text: Will you stand up for me (as my best man) at the wedding?
text: The bridesmaids will stand up over there during the ceremony.
glosses: To serve in a role during a wedding ceremony.
Derived terms: stand-up
stand up and be counted
stand up and give it to him
stand up for
stand-up meeting
stand up on one's hind legs
stand up to
stand up to be counted
stand up with
will the real someone please stand up
Related terms: stand
stand down
sit down
sit up
lie down
get up