Word: stand Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stonden, standen (verb) and stand, stond (noun, from the verb), from Old English standan (“to stand, occupy a place”), from Proto-West Germanic *standan, from Proto-Germanic *standaną (“to stand”), from Pre-Germanic *sth₂-n-t-´, an innovative extended n-infixed form of Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-. Cognates Cognate with Scots staund (“to stand”), Yola sthoan, sthoane, sthone, stoane (“to stand”), North Frisian staan, stoune, stuine, stun, stönje, stööne (“to stand”), Saterland Frisian stounde (“to stand”), Danish stande (“to stand”), Faroese and Icelandic standa (“to stand”), Norwegian Nynorsk standa, stå (“to stand”), Swedish stånda (“to stand”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (standan, “to stand”). From the related Proto-Germanic *stāną (“to stand”): West Frisian stean (“to stand”), Alemannic German staa (“to stand”), Central Franconian stiehn, stohn, stonn (“to stand”), Cimbrian stean (“to stand”), Dutch staan (“to stand”), German stehen (“to stand”), Low German stahn, staon (“to stand”), Luxembourgish stoen (“to stand”), Vilamovian śtejn (“to stand”), Yiddish שטיין (shteyn, “to stand”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish stå (“to stand”), Faroese stá (“to stand”). Also from *steh₂-: Breton and Cornish sevel (“to stand”), Welsh sefyll (“to stand”), Latin stō (“to stand”), Greek σταυρός (stavrós, “cross”), Albanian shtyllë (“pillar; column”), Latvian stāvēt (“to stand”), Lithuanian stóti, stovėti (“to stand”), Belarusian стая́ць (stajácʹ, “to stand”), Bulgarian стоя́ (stojá, “to stand, stay”), Czech stát (“to stand”), Macedonian стои (stoi, “to stand”), Polish stać, stojeć (“to stand”), Russian стоя́ть (stojátʹ, “to stand”), Serbo-Croatian ста̏јати, stȁjati (“to stand”), Slovak stáť (“to stand”), Slovene státi (“to stand”), Ukrainian стоя́ти (stojáty, “to stand”), Armenian ստվար (stvar, “large, thick; dense”), Ossetian стын (styn, “to stand up”), Northern Kurdish rawestîn (“to stand”), Persian ایستادن (istâdan), وایسادن (vâysâdan), وایستادن (vâystâdan, “to stand up”), Tocharian A ṣtäm- (“to stand”), Tocharian B stäm- (“to stand”), Sanskrit स्था (sthā, “to stand”). Pronunciation: /ˈstænd/, [ˈstænd], /ˈstand/, [ˈstand], [ˈständ] 1. To position or be positioned physically: Labels: copulative, intransitive Example: Here I stand, wondering what to do next. Example: I can't reach the ceiling. Get me a chair to stand on. 2. To position or be positioned physically: Labels: intransitive Example: Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack. 3. To position or be positioned physically: Labels: copulative, intransitive Example: Do not leave your car standing in the road. Example: The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. 4. To position or be positioned physically: Labels: intransitive Example: They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. Example: He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom […] 5. To position or be positioned physically: Labels: transitive Example: He stood the broom in a corner and took a break. Example: At one time a "standard test" for carriage riding was to stand a pencil on end on the compartment floor, or to measure how long it was possible to stand on one leg without touching the corridor walls; [...]. 6. To position or be positioned physically: Labels: intransitive Example: Paris stands on the Seine. Example: The chapel ſtands on the South ſide of the ſquare, near the governor’s houſe. 7. To position or be positioned physically: Labels: intransitive Example: 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; […] Example: She must stand five feet five—possibly six. At that, with the tread she has, she will take a 4½ to 5. 8. To position or be positioned physically: Labels: intransitive, usually Example: many an orphan’s water-standing eye Example: 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 […] 9. To position or be positioned mentally: Labels: intransitive, with-infinitive, with-to Example: He stands to get a good price for the house. 10. To position or be positioned mentally: Labels: transitive Example: I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions. Example: I can’t stand him. 11. To position or be positioned mentally: Labels: copulative, intransitive Example: [R]eaders by whose judgment I would stand or fall […] 12. To position or be positioned mentally: Labels: copulative, intransitive Example: The king granted the Jews[…]to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life. Example: the standing pattern of their imitation 13. To position or be positioned mentally: Labels: copulative, intransitive, obsolete Example: sacrifices[…]which stood only in meats and drinks Example: Accomplish what your signs foreshow; / I stand resigned, and am prepared to go. 14. To position or be positioned socially: Labels: intransitive 15. To position or be positioned socially: Labels: transitive Example: The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time. Example: Love stood the siege. 16. To position or be positioned socially: Labels: UK, intransitive Example: He is standing for election to the local council. Example: He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university. 17. To position or be positioned socially: Labels: intransitive Example: What I said yesterday still stands. 18. To position or be positioned socially: Labels: transitive Example: "Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. / "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron. Example: The game stopped while sides were sorted out. Andy did the sorting. "Okay," he said. "Jimmy is coming out. He and Gaston and Ike and me will stand you guys." 19. To position or be positioned socially: Labels: transitive Example: to stand a round of drinks Example: to stand a treat 20. To position or be positioned socially: Labels: intransitive Example: Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts. Example: President Obama gave his first extended television interview since the protests in Libya and Egypt to Telemundo on Wednesday night, and he took the opportunity to explain the U.S.'s role in the developing world while clarifying where the country stands with Egypt right now. 21. To position or be positioned socially: Labels: intransitive Example: Doubt me not, by Heauen, I vvill doe nothing / But vvhat may ſtand vvith honour: […] 22. To position or be positioned socially: Labels: intransitive 23. Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.). Labels: intransitive Example: To repaire his defects, hee stood for the coast of Calabria, but hearing there was six or seven Galleyes at Mesina hee departed thence for Malta[…]. 24. To remain without ruin or injury. Labels: copulative, intransitive Example: My mind on its own centre stands unmov'd. Example: The ruin'd wall / Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone. 25. To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.