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standing
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?stænd??/
Etymology 1
From Middle English standynge, stondynge, standende, stondinde, standande, stondande, from Old English standende, stondende, from Proto-Germanic *standandz (“standing”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *standan? (“to stand”), equivalent to stand +? -ing.
Verb
standing
- present participle of stand
- 1991, Backdraft
- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
- 1991, Backdraft
Adjective
standing (not comparable)
- Erect, not cut down.
- Performed from an erect position.
- standing ovation
- Remaining in force or status.
- standing committee
- Stagnant; not moving or flowing.
- standing water
- Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.
- a standing colour
- Not movable; fixed.
- a standing bed, distinguished from a trundle-bed
- the standing rigging of a ship
Antonyms
- (stagnant): moving, working (committees)
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English standyng, stonding, stondung, from Old English *standung, equivalent to stand +? -ing.
Noun
standing (countable and uncountable, plural standings)
- Position or reputation in society or a profession.
- 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)[1]
- The males constantly test their standing, looking to move up in the hierarchy.
- 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)[1]
- Duration.
- The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
- I will provide you and your fellows of a good standing to see his entry
- I think in deep mire, where there is no standing.;
- (sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
- (Britain) Room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
- 1992, P. D. James, The Children of Men, page 28:
- "There was no garage at Lathbury Road, but we had standing for two cars in front of the house."
- 2000, Bob Breen, Mission Accomplished, East Timor, page 149:
- "The engineering crisis boiled down to roads, hard standing, and waste."
- 1992, P. D. James, The Children of Men, page 28:
- (law) The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates.
- (Britain, slang, obsolete) The location on a street where a market trader habitually operates.
- Synonym: pitch
Derived terms
- class standing
- hard standing
- good standing
Translations
References
- (market trader's pitch): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Cebuano
Etymology
From English standing.
Noun
standing
- in bato lata; an instance where the can is standing upright and, still in play, after being hit and pushed out of its ring
Faroese
Etymology
standa (“to stand”) +? -ing
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?stant??k]
Noun
standing f (genitive singular standingar, uncountable)
- erection
Declension
Synonyms
- reðurstøða
French
Etymology
From English standing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??.di?/
Noun
standing m (plural standings)
- standing, status
- Level of quality or comfort, especially about real estate
- appartement de grand standing
Further reading
- “standing” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?tandin/, [es?t?ãn?.d??n]
Noun
standing m (plural standings)
- status, standing, class
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caste
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish casta (“lineage, breed, race”), of uncertain origin. The OED derives it from Portuguese casto (“chaste”), from Latin castus.Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical Gothic form *???????????????????? (*kasts), cognate with English cast, from Proto-Germanic *kastuz.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: käst, IPA(key): /k??st/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kæst/
- Homophones: cast, karst (in non-rhotic accents)
- Rhymes: -??st
Noun
caste (plural castes)
- Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
- Hyponyms: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaishya, varna
- A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
- (zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
Derived terms
- casteless
Translations
Anagrams
- Cates, Stace, cates, scate, sceat, taces
Dutch
Verb
caste
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of casten
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese casta, probably of Gothic and Germanic origin, or alternatively from a derivative of Latin castus.
Noun
caste f (plural castes)
- caste (hereditary class)
- class (social position)
References
- “caste” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Alternative forms
- casta
Etymology
Probably from Gothic *???????????????????? (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, *kast?n? (“to throw, cast”), compare English cast.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kaste?/
Noun
caste f (plural castes)
- species, race or kind
- 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 29:
- Por aquí nacen os ricos polo outro probes labregos. Estas son as dúas castes que hai en todo o mundo inteiro.
- Here the rich people are born, there the poor peasants; these are the two races that there are in the whole world
- Por aquí nacen os ricos polo outro probes labregos. Estas son as dúas castes que hai en todo o mundo inteiro.
- 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 29:
- quality
- 1859, Ramón Barros Silvelo, Un dia de desfertuna, page 3:
- Dime logo que o probe do animal ou é de mala caste, ou ben non come
- He readily told me that the animal [that I was selling] either was of bad quality, or either it didn't eat
- Dime logo que o probe do animal ou é de mala caste, ou ben non come
- 1859, Ramón Barros Silvelo, Un dia de desfertuna, page 3:
- progeny; group of people that share a common ancestor
- 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 8:
- { soy llamado Pedro Luces ... } - To to to, vamos con tento que un home con ese nome pode ser caste do demo.
- {I am called Peter Lights...} —Wo wo wo! Let us be careful: a man with that name could de a Devil's child.
- { soy llamado Pedro Luces ... } - To to to, vamos con tento que un home con ese nome pode ser caste do demo.
- Synonyms: estirpe, fruxe, liñaxe
- 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 8:
Derived terms
- castizar (“to mate”)
- castizo (“stud pig”)
- de caste (“selected”)
References
- “caste” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “caste” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “caste” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Adjective
caste
- feminine plural of casto
Noun
caste f
- plural of casta
Anagrams
- cesta
Latin
Etymology 1
From castus +? -?.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?kas.te?/, [?käs?t?e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kas.te/, [?k?st??]
Adverb
cast? (comparative castius, superlative castissim?)
- purely, spotlessly, virtuously
- piously, religiously
Etymology 2
Inflected form of castus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?kas.te/, [?käs?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kas.te/, [?k?st??]
Adjective
caste
- vocative masculine singular of castus
References
- caste in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- caste in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caste in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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