different between standing vs possie

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

Alternative forms

• pozzy

Etymology

From position +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• /?p?zi/, p?zi
• Rhymes: -?zi

Noun

possie (plural possies)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, military slang, Digger slang) A firing position.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.
   • 1984, Garrie Hutchinson, A Practice Game at the Old Home Ground, from From the Outer, reprinted 2001, David Headon (editor), The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection, page 289,

     The fans seem happy to be back, finding their formerly favourite possies in the stands, or around the strangely sunken perimeter fence.

   • 1998, Business Review Weekly, Volume 20, Issues 47-49, page 102,

     Of course, it helps if you are very rich and regularly pay more than $40,000 for a couture outfit to be guaranteed of a near-front-row possie at the bi-annual parades (winter and summer collections).

   • 2009, Andrew Bain, Ethan Gelber, Cycling Australia, Lonely Planet, page 346,

     It?s in a good people-watching possie and if you have an early dinner between 3pm and 7pm you get a 40% discount.

Anagrams

• poises, posies