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stand
English
Etymology
From Middle English standen, from Old English standan (“to stand, occupy a place, be valid, stand good, be, exist, take place, consist, be fixed, remain undisturbed, stand still, cease to move, remain without motion, stop, maintain one’s position, not yield to pressure, reside, abide, continue, remain, not to fall, be upheld”), from Proto-Germanic *standan? (“to stand”), from Pre-Germanic *sth?-n-t-´, an innovative extended n-infixed form of Proto-Indo-European *steh?-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stænd/
- (/æ/ tensing) IPA(key): [ste?nd]
- Rhymes: -ænd
Verb
stand (third-person singular simple present stands, present participle standing, simple past stood, past participle stood or (obsolete) standen or (nonstandard) stand)
- (heading) 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.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 2:9,[1]
- The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
- 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.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 2:9,[1]
- (intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
- He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom […].
- (transitive) To place in an upright or standing position.
- (intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
- 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, book 2, chapter 7, 6:
- The chapel ?tands on the South ?ide of the ?quare, near the governor’s hou?e.
- 2017 October 2, "Las Vegas shooting: At least 58 dead at Mandalay Bay Hotel", in bbc.com, BBC:
- Las Vegas police say the number of people injured now stands at 515.
- 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, book 2, chapter 7, 6:
- (intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet.
- 1855, Alfred Tennyson, Maud, XIII, 1. in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 44,[2]
- 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;
- 1855, Alfred Tennyson, Maud, XIII, 1. in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 44,[2]
- (intransitive) (of tears) To be present, to have welled up (in the eyes).
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act V, Scene 6,[3]
- many an orphan’s water-standing eye
- 1651, Francis Bacon, A True and Historical Relation of the Poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, London: John Benson & John Playford, “Sir Jervas his Confession,” p. 71,[4]
- 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 […]
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: W. Chetwood & T. Edling, p. 222,[5]
- [he] pull’d me up again, and then giving me two or three Kisses again, thank’d me for my kind yielding to him; and was so overcome with the Satisfaction and Joy of it, that I saw Tears stand in his Eyes.
- 1844, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman & Hall, Chapter 32, p. 380,[6]
- 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 […]
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act V, Scene 6,[3]
- (intransitive, copulative) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
- (heading) To position or be positioned mentally.
- (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.
- (transitive, negative) To tolerate.
- (intransitive, copulative) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
- February 2, 1712, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 291
- readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall
- February 2, 1712, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 291
- (intransitive, copulative) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
- The king granted the Jews […] to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.
- July 29, 1660, Robert South, sermon preached at St. Mary's Church in Oxon
- the standing pattern of their imitation
- (intransitive, copulative, obsolete) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
- sacrifices […] which stood only in meats and drinks
- Accomplish what your signs foreshow; / I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
- (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.
- (heading) To position or be positioned socially.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire.
- (transitive) To undergo; withstand; hold up.
- Love stood the siege.
- Bid him disband his legions, […] / And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.
- (intransitive, Britain) To seek election.
- 1678, Izaak Walton, The Life of Robert Sanderson
- He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.
- 1678, Izaak Walton, The Life of Robert Sanderson
- (intransitive) To be valid.
- (transitive) To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
- 1957, Matt Christopher, Basketball Sparkplug, Ch.7:
- "Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. ¶ "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron.
- c. 1973, R. J. Childerhose, Hockey Fever in Goganne Falls, p.95:
- 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."
- 1978, Louis Sachar, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Ch.21:
- "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.
- 1957, Matt Christopher, Basketball Sparkplug, Ch.7:
- (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.
- c. 1619, Philip Massinger and Nathan Field, The Fatal Dowry
- Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing / But what may stand with honour.
- c. 1619, Philip Massinger and Nathan Field, The Fatal Dowry
- (intransitive) To appear in court.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
- (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
- 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p.40:
- 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 […].
- 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p.40:
- (intransitive, copulative) To remain without ruin or injury.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
- My mind on its own centre stands unmov'd.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
- (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
Conjugation
Usage notes
- In older works, standen is found as a past participle of this verb; it is now archaic. The forms stooden and stand may also be found in dialectal speech; these are nonstandard.
- (tolerate): This is almost always found in a negative form such as can’t stand, or No-one can stand… In this sense it is a catenative verb that takes the gerund -ing or infinitive to.... See Appendix:English catenative verbs.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
stand (plural stands)
- The act of standing.
- October 2, 1712, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 499
- I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings.
- October 2, 1712, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 499
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Truth”, Essays
- 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.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.168:
- Antonia's patience now was at a stand—
"Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there,"
She whispered […]
- Antonia's patience now was at a stand—
- 1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Truth”, Essays
- A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
- (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
- (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural)
- (cricket) A partnership.
- (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
- 1927, Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld, Paragon House (1990), ?ISBN, p.170:
- The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.
- 1927, Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld, Paragon House (1990), ?ISBN, p.170:
- (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.
- Father, since your fortune did attain
So high a stand, I mean not to descend.
- Father, since your fortune did attain
- (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
- 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.
- (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
- A location or position where one may stand.
- c. 1604 Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
- Come, I have found you out a stand most fit, / Where you may have such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass you.
- c. 1604 Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Catalan: estand
- ? Italian: stand
- ? Portuguese: estande
- ? Spanish: estand
Translations
Related terms
- stance
- stanza
Anagrams
- Dants, Sandt, dasn't, tdnas
Danish
Etymology
From the verb stande, influenced by Middle Low German stant, German Stand and (in the sense "booth") English stand.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?sd?an?]
Noun
stand c (singular definite standen, plural indefinite stænder)
- position, social status, station
- class, rank
- occupation, trade, profession
- estate
Inflection
Noun
stand c (singular definite standen, plural indefinite stande)
- stand (device to hold something upright or aloft)
- stand (small building or booth)
- (uncountable) condition, repair
Inflection
Related terms
- godt i stand
- i stand til
References
- “stand” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology 1
From Old Dutch *stand, from Proto-Germanic *standaz. Related to staan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?nt/
- Hyphenation: stand
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
stand m (plural standen, diminutive standje n)
- posture, position, bearing
- rank, standing, station; class
- score (of a game, match)
Synonyms
- (posture): houding
- (rank): rang, klasse
- (score): score
Derived terms
- adelstand
- burgerstand
- slaapstand
- speelstand
- standenmaatschappij
- standje
- waterstand
Etymology 2
From English stand.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?nt/
- Hyphenation: stand
Noun
stand m (plural stands, diminutive standje n)
- stand (small building or booth)
Synonyms
- kraam
Anagrams
- danst
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??d/
Noun
stand m (plural stands)
- stand
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tant/
- Rhymes: -ant
Verb
stand
- first/third-person singular preterite of stehen
Gothic
Romanization
stand
- Romanization of ????????????????????
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Stand.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??t?nd]
- Hyphenation: stand
- Rhymes: -?nd
Noun
stand
- stand, booth, stall, kiosk (a small enclosed structure, often freestanding, open on one side or with a window, used as a booth to sell newspapers, cigarettes, etc., on the street or in a market)
- Synonym: bódé
Declension
References
Further reading
- stand in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Italian
Etymology
From English stand.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st?nd/
Noun
stand m (invariable)
- stand, booth, stall, pavilion (at a fair)
- stand, gallery (at a sporting event)
- stand, case (in a store, supermarket)
- stall (at a shooting range)
Synonyms
- (at a fair, shooting range): padiglione
Derived terms
- standista
Further reading
- stand in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From the old verb stande (replaced by stå), and English stand (sense 3)
Noun
stand m (definite singular standen, indefinite plural stander, definite plural standene)
- condition, order, state
- height, level, reading
- a stand (e.g. at an exhibition)
Derived terms
- husstand
- i stand til
- standpunkt
- vannstand
References
- “stand” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From the old verb stande (replaced by stå).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?nd/, /st?n?/ (examples of pronunciation)
Noun
stand m (definite singular standen, indefinite plural standar, definite plural standane)
- condition, order, state
- height, level, reading
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
From German Stand. Doublet of Etymology 1.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?nd/, /st?n?/ (examples of pronunciation)
Noun
stand m (definite singular standen, indefinite plural stender, definite plural stendene)
- (historical) an estate (social class)
Derived terms
Etymology 3
From English stand. Doublet of Etymology 1.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stænd/, /stæn?/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
stand m (definite singular standen, indefinite plural standar, definite plural standane)
- a stand (e.g. at an exhibition)
References
- “stand” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *standaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?nd/
Noun
stand m
- (rare) delay
Declension
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *standaz, whence also Old English stand.
Noun
stand m
- stand (clarification of this definition is needed)
Portuguese
Noun
stand m (plural stands)
- Alternative form of estande
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?stand/, [?st?ãn?d?]
- IPA(key): /es?tand/, [es?t?ãn?d?]
Noun
stand m (plural stands)
- stand (enclosed structure in the street)
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ground
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Etymology 1
From Middle English grounde, from Old English grund, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?r?mtu-. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond and German Grund. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian grundë (“brittle earth”).
Alternative forms
- GND (contraction used in electronics)
Noun
ground (countable and uncountable, plural grounds)
- The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- (uncountable) Terrain.
- Soil, earth.
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
- Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- (chiefly in the plural) Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
- Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- (historical) The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
- (figuratively, by extension) Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
- The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
- crimson flowers on a white ground
- (sculpture) A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
- (point lace) The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
- Brussels ground
- (etching) A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
- (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
- Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering floated flush with them.
- (countable) A soccer stadium.
- (electricity, Canada and US) An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
- (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
- (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
- (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of Richard III, act III, scene vii, in: The Works of Shake?pear V (1726), page 149:
- Buck[ingham] The Mayor is here at hand; pretend ?ome fear, // Be not you ?poke with, but by mighty ?uit; // And look you get a prayer-book in your hand, // And ?tand between two churchmen, good my lord, // For on that ground I’ll build a holy de?cant: // And be not ea?ily won to our reque?ts: // Play the maid’s part, ?till an?wer nay, and take it.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Moore (Encyc.) to this entry?)
- 1592, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of Richard III, act III, scene vii, in: The Works of Shake?pear V (1726), page 149:
- The pit of a theatre.
- 1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair
- the understanding gentlemen o' the ground here ask'd my judgment
- 1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair
Synonyms
- (electricity) earth (British)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- Pages starting with “ground”.
Translations
See also
- floor
- terra firma
Verb
ground (third-person singular simple present grounds, present participle grounding, simple past and past participle grounded)
- (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- Synonym: earth
- (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
- Synonym: gate
- If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you.
- Eric, you are grounded until further notice for lying to us about where you were last night!
- My kids are currently grounded from television.
- (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
- Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.
- To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
- Jim was grounded in maths.
- (baseball) To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb(regular)) and line (verb).
- To place something on the ground.
- (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
- The ship grounded on the bar.
- To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
- being rooted and grounded in love
- So far from warranting any inference to the existence of a God, would, on the contrary, ground even an argument to his negation.
- (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
- To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
- I ground myself with meditation.
Translations
Etymology 2
Inflected form of grind. See also milled.
Verb
ground
- simple past tense and past participle of grind
Adjective
ground (not comparable)
- Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
- Synonym: milled
- Processed by grinding.
- 2018, H Glimpel, HJ Lauffer, A Bremstahler, Finishing Tool, In Particular End Milling Cutter, US Patent App. 15/764,739
- An advantage of such a finishing tool is that, after the machining, the workpiece has high surface quality. The surface which is produced appears finely ground to polished by means of this procedure.
- 2018, H Glimpel, HJ Lauffer, A Bremstahler, Finishing Tool, In Particular End Milling Cutter, US Patent App. 15/764,739
Derived terms
- ground beef
- ground pepper
- stoneground
Translations
References
- ground at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- dog run
Middle English
Alternative forms
- grund, grounde
Etymology
From Old English grund, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ru?nd/
Noun
ground
- ground
- Earth
Declension
Descendants
- English: ground
- ? Fiji Hindi: garaund
- ? Maltese: grawnd
- Scots: grund, groond, greund
- Yola: greoune
References
- “gr?und, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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