English Dictionary

stand

/stænd/

verb

(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.

I stand in line for hours to buy concert tickets.

意味（1）

(intransitive, copulative) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.

Here I stand, wondering what to do next.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.

Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.

意味（3）

(intransitive, copulative) To remain motionless.

Do not leave your car standing in the road.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.

They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.

意味（5）

(transitive) To place in an upright or standing position.

He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.

意味（6）

(intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.

Paris stands on the Seine.

意味（7）

(intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet.

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;

意味（8）

(intransitive, of tears, sweat, etc.) To be present, to have welled up.

many an orphan’s water-standing eye

意味（9）

(intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.

He stands to get a good price for the house.

意味（10）

(transitive, negative) To tolerate.

I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.

意味（11）

(intransitive, copulative) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.

readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall

意味（12）

(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.

意味（13）

(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

意味（14）

(intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire.

意味（15）

(transitive) To undergo; withstand; hold up.

The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.

意味（16）

(intransitive, Britain) To be a candidate (in an election).

He is standing for election to the local council.

意味（17）

(intransitive) To be valid.

What I said yesterday still stands.

意味（18）

(transitive) To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.

Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys, Jimmie Burdette said. ¶ We'll smear you! laughed Ron.

意味（19）

(transitive) To cover the expense of; to pay for.

to stand a round of drinks

意味（20）

(intransitive) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.

Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.

意味（21）

(intransitive) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.

Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing / But what may stand with honour.

意味（22）

(intransitive) To appear in court.

意味（23）

(intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).

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 […].

意味（24）

(intransitive, copulative) To remain without ruin or injury.

My mind on its own centre stands unmov'd.

意味（25）

(card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.