stand
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
card-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
transport
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: stands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: standing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stood
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stood
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: standen
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: stand
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: stand
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: stand
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: stood
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: stand
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: standest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: stood
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: stoodst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: stoodest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: stands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: standeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: stood
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: stand
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: stood
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: stand
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: stood
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: stand
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: standing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stood
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stand
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
form: stooden
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
form: standen
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To position or be positioned physically:
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
examples: Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
I can't reach the celing. Get me a chair to stand on.
Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
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; […]
It’s recited in schools across the US every day by students standing stiffly with their hands over their hearts. […] The pledge made headlines this week after a sixth-grade student in Florida told a substitute teacher he would not stand for the pledge because he believed the American flag symbolized discrimination against blacks.
gloss: To position or be positioned physically:
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.
gloss: To position or be positioned physically:
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
examples: Do not leave your car standing in the road.
The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
gloss: To position or be positioned physically:
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom […]
gloss: To position or be positioned physically:
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
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; [...].
gloss: To position or be positioned physically:
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Paris stands on the Seine.
The chapel ſtands on the South ſide of the ſquare, near the governor’s houſe.
Las Vegas police say the number of people injured now stands at 515.
gloss: To position or be positioned physically:
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To position or be positioned physically:
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
usually
examples: 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 […]
[He] pull’d me up again, and then giving me tvvo or three Kiſſes again, thank’d me for my kind yielding to him; and vvas ſo overcome with the Satisfaction and Joy of it, that I savv Tears ſtand in his Eyes.
He takes me half-price to the play, to an extent which I sometimes fear is beyond his means; and I see the tears a standing in his eyes during the whole performance […]
How he escaped a broken neck in that dreadful place no human being will ever ken. The sweat, he has told me, stood in cold drops upon his forehead […]
gloss: To position or be positioned mentally:
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
with-infinitive
with-to
examples: He stands to get a good price for the house.
gloss: To position or be positioned mentally:
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.
I can’t stand him.
[I]f you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.
gloss: To position or be positioned mentally:
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
examples: [R]eaders by whose judgment I would stand or fall […]
gloss: To position or be positioned mentally:
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
examples: The king granted the Jews[…]to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.
the standing pattern of their imitation
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
gloss: To position or be positioned mentally:
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
obsolete
examples: sacrifices[…]which stood only in meats and drinks
Accomplish what your signs foreshow; / I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
Thou seest how it stands with me[…], and that I may not tarry.
gloss: To position or be positioned socially:
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To position or be positioned socially:
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.
Love stood the siege.
Bid him disband his legions,[…]/ And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.
That not for Fame, but Virtue's better end, / He ſtood the furious Foe, the timid Friend, […]
gloss: To position or be positioned socially:
pos: verb
tags: UK
intransitive
examples: He is standing for election to the local council.
He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.
gloss: To position or be positioned socially:
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: What I said yesterday still stands.
gloss: To position or be positioned socially:
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. / "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron.
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."
"Hey, Louis," Dameon shouted. "Do you want to play kickball?" ¶ ""All right," said Louis. "Ron and I will both play." […] "Ron and I will stand everybody!" Louis announced.
gloss: To position or be positioned socially:
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to stand a round of drinks
to stand a treat
to stand bail (security in respect of an arrested person)
I will either stand a glass of grog, or thou shalt pay the like for me, my lad
gloss: To position or be positioned socially:
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
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.
gloss: To position or be positioned socially:
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Doubt me not, by Heauen, I vvill doe nothing / But vvhat may ſtand vvith honour: […]
gloss: To position or be positioned socially:
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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[…].
gloss: To remain without ruin or injury.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
examples: My mind on its own centre stands unmov'd.
The ruin'd wall / Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.
gloss: To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
pos: verb
Derived words: againstand
a house divided against itself cannot stand
a leg to stand on
all standing
astand
atstand
behind every successful man there stands a woman
bestand
can't stand
dwarf standing on the shoulders of giants
forstand
gainstand
I stand corrected
make someone's hair stand on end
not have a leg to stand on
offstand
outstand
overstand
restand
standability
stand a chance
standage
stand-alone
standalone
stand alone
stand and be counted
stand and deliver
stand and stir
stand apart
stand around
stand aside
stand at attention
standaway
stand back
stand behind
stand between
stand by
stand-by-bed
stand confessed
stand corrected
stand-down
stand down
stand easy
standee
stand fast the Holy Ghost
stand fire
stand firm
stand for
stand from under
stand guard
stand in
stand-in
stand in for
standing on one's head
stand in good stead
stand in one's own light
stand in one's value
stand in someone's shoes
stand in the gap
stand in the gate
stand in the way
stand off
stand-off
stand on
stand on business
stand on ceremony
stand on end
stand one's ground
stand one's hand
stand on its own
stand on line
stand on one's dignity
stand on one's head
stand on one's own bottom
stand on one's own two feet
stand on someone's shoulders
stand on the shoulders of
stand on the shoulders of giants
stand on velvet
stand out
stand over
stand pad
stand pat
stand Sam
stand sentinel
stand sentry
stand shilly-shally
stand someone in hand
stand still
stand tall
stand the gaff
stand there like a lemon
stand the test of time
stand to
stand together
stand to pee
stand to reason
stand treat
stand trial
stand under
stand up against
stand up and be counted
stand up for
stand upon
stand upon one's dignity
stand up on one's hind legs
stand upon one's terms
stand upon points
stand up
stand-up
standup
stand up to
stand up with
stand watch
stand with
time stand still
true as I'm standing here
true as I stand here
understand
upstand
where you stand depends on where you sit
withstand
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