different between standing vs estate

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

1. 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?

Adjective

standing (not comparable)

1. Erect, not cut down.
2. Performed from an erect position.

   standing ovation

3. Remaining in force or status.

   standing committee

4. Stagnant; not moving or flowing.

   standing water

5. Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.

   a standing colour

6. 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)

1. 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.

2. Duration.

3. 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.;

4. (sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.

5. (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."

6. (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.

7. (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

1. 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)

1. erection

Declension

Synonyms

• reðurstøða

French

Etymology

From English standing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??.di?/

Noun

standing m (plural standings)

1. standing, status
2. 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)

1. status, standing, class

English

Etymology

From Middle English estat, from Anglo-Norman estat and Old French estat (French: état), from Latin status. Doublet of state and status.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?s-t?t, IPA^(key): /?s?te?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Noun

estate (plural estates)

1. The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. [from 19^thc.]
2. (now rare, archaic) state; condition. [from 13^thc.]
   • Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.

3. (archaic) Status, rank. [from 13^thc.]
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.

4. (archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions. [from 14^thc.]
5. (obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman. [14^th-17^thc.]
   • Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.

6. (historical) A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights (Estates of the realm). [from 14^thc.]
   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p.115:

     I am afraid that some of the nobles who are campaigning for it simply want to use the Estates to cut down the King's power and increase their own.

   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p.202:

     The three estates of feudal lords, clergy and royal officers met in separate chambers, and exercised an advisory role.

7. (law) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land. [from 15^thc.]
8. An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership. [from 18^thc.]
9. The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.
10. (Britain, sometimes derogatory) A housing estate. [from 20^thc.]
11. (Britain, automotive) A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (and often extensible into that compartment via folding or removable seating). [from 20^thc.]
12. (obsolete) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
    • 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature

      I call matter of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever […] concerneth manifestly any great portion of people.

Synonyms

• (estate car) estate car, station sedan, station wagon, wagon

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

estate (not comparable)

1. (jewelry, euphemistic) Previously owned; secondhand.

   an estate diamond; estate jewelry

Verb

estate (third-person singular simple present estates, present participle estating, simple past and past participle estated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To give an estate to.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To bestow upon.

See also

• Estate (land) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• eatest, tatees, tea set, testae, testæ

Interlingua

Etymology

From Italian.

Noun

estate (plural estates)

1. summer

See also

Italian

Alternative forms

• està (poetic or regional)
• state (Tuscan)

Etymology

From Latin aest?tem, accusative of aest?s (“summer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyd?- (“burn; fire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?ta.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: es?tà?te

Noun

estate f (plural estati)

1. summer

Related terms

• estivo

See also

Anagrams

• attese, esatte, esteta, saette, tesate

References

• estate in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Spanish

Verb

estate

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of estar, está and the pronoun te.