different between standing vs parking

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

park +? -ing

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??k??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??k??/
• Rhymes: -??(r)k??
• Hyphenation: park?ing

Verb

parking

1. present participle of park

   Parking a car in a tight spot gave him some satisfaction. (as gerund)

   His parking skills needed improvement. (as participial adjective)

   They will be parking the aircraft in the desert for the next few months. (as progressive)

   Each one of his parkings of securities was a separate count on the indictment. (as gerundial noun)

Noun

parking (usually uncountable, plural parkings)

1. The action of the verb to park.

   Parking in central London can be very difficult.

   • 1948, Report of the Charlotte Parking Survey: Downtown Business District

     Table 6 represents an analysis of the parking usage in the Downtown Business District, in terms of the number of parkings, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., according to Type of Facility used, and the Purposes of the Trips […]

2. Space in which to park a car or other vehicle.

   It can be difficult to find parking in central London.

Usage notes

• Often used attributively, as an adjective.

Hyponyms

• angle parking
• parallel parking

Derived terms

Translations

Cebuano

Etymology

From English parking, from park (“to park”), from Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: par?king

Verb

parking

1. to park; to bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:parking.

Derived terms

• parkinganan

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English parking or from French parking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?r.k??/
• Hyphenation: par?king

Noun

parking f (plural parkings)

1. (Belgium) car park, parking lot

   Synonyms: parkeerplaats, parkeerterrein

Derived terms

• stadsparking

French

Etymology

From English parking.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /pa?ki?(?)/

Noun

parking m (plural parkings)

1. car park, parking lot

   Synonym: stationnement

Further reading

• “parking” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From English parking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??ki?/

Noun

parking

1. area where cars or other vehicles are parked; car park

   Synonym: stasionnman

Polish

Etymology

From English parking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?par.k?ink/ [?park???k]

Noun

parking m inan

1. car park

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) parkowa?, zaparkowa?
• (noun) parkingowy
• (adjective) parkingowy

Further reading

• parking in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• parking in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From English parking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?kin/, [?pa?.k?n]

Noun

parking m (plural parkings)

1. car park (UK), parking lot (North America) (an area where cars may be parked)

   Synonyms: aparcamiento, estacionamiento

2. parking garage

Further reading

• “parking” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.