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      stand
      noun
      The act of standing.
      A defensive position or effort.
      A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
      A period of performance in a given location or venue.
      A device to hold something upright or aloft.
      The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
      A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
      (forestry) 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.
      A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
      A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
      A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
      (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural)
      (cricket) A partnership.
      (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
      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.
      A location or position where one may stand.
      (advertising) An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
      (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
      (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
      (US, Scotland, dated) A container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask.
      (historical) An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
      (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.
      (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
      (US, historical) Ellipsis of tavern stand (“a roadside inn”). [(US, historical) A roadside inn.]
      verb
      To position or be positioned physically:
      (intransitive, copulative) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
      (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
      (intransitive, copulative) To remain motionless.
      (intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
      (transitive) To place in an upright or standing position.
      (intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
      (intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet.
      (intransitive, of tears, sweat, etc.) To be present, to have welled up.
      To position or be positioned mentally:
      (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.
      (transitive, chiefly in the negative) To tolerate.
      (intransitive, copulative) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
      (intransitive, copulative) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
      To position or be positioned socially:
      (intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire.
      (transitive) To undergo; withstand; hold up.
      (intransitive, British) To be a candidate (in an election).
      (intransitive) To remain valid.
      (transitive) To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
      (transitive) To cover the expense of; to pay for.
      (intransitive) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
      (intransitive) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
      (intransitive) To appear in court.
      (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
      (intransitive, copulative) To remain without ruin or injury.
      (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
      (intransitive, copulative, obsolete) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
      Synonyms for stand
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