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stand

verb
/stænd/

Etymology

From Middle English stonden, standen (verb) and stand, stond (noun, from the verb), from Old English standan (“to stand, occupy a place”), from Proto-West Germanic *standan, from Proto-Germanic *standaną (“to stand”), from Pre-Germanic *sth₂-n-t-´, an innovative extended n-infixed form of Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-. Cognates Cognate with Scots staund (“to stand”), Yola sthoan, sthoane, sthone, stoane (“to stand”), North Frisian staan, stoune, stuine, stun, stönje, stööne (“to stand”), Saterland Frisian stounde (“to stand”), Danish stande (“to stand”), Faroese and Icelandic standa (“to stand”), Norwegian Nynorsk standa, stå (“to stand”), Swedish stånda (“to stand”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (standan, “to stand”). From the related Proto-Germanic *stāną (“to stand”): West Frisian stean (“to stand”), Alemannic German staa (“to stand”), Central Franconian stiehn, stohn, stonn (“to stand”), Cimbrian stean (“to stand”), Dutch staan (“to stand”), German stehen, stehn (“to stand”), Low German stahn, staon (“to stand”), Luxembourgish stoen (“to stand”), Vilamovian śtejn (“to stand”), Yiddish שטיין (shteyn, “to stand”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish stå (“to stand”), Faroese stá (“to stand”). Also from *steh₂-: Breton and Cornish sevel (“to stand”), Welsh sefyll (“to stand”), Latin stō (“to stand”), Greek σταυρός (stavrós, “cross”), Albanian shtyllë (“pillar; column”), Latvian stāvēt (“to stand”), Lithuanian stóti, stovėti (“to stand”), Belarusian стая́ць (stajácʹ, “to stand”), Bulgarian стоя́ (stojá, “to stand, stay”), Czech stát (“to stand”), Macedonian стои (stoi, “to stand”), Polish stać, stojeć (“to stand”), Russian стоя́ть (stojátʹ, “to stand”), Serbo-Croatian ста̏јати, stȁjati (“to stand”), Slovak stáť (“to stand”), Slovene státi (“to stand”), Ukrainian стоя́ти (stojáty, “to stand”), Armenian ստվար (stvar, “large, thick; dense”), Ossetian стын (styn, “to stand up”), Northern Kurdish rawestîn (“to stand”), Persian ایستادن (istâdan), وایسادن (vâysâdan), وایستادن (vâystâdan, “to stand up”), Tocharian A ṣtäm- (“to stand”), Tocharian B stäm- (“to stand”), Sanskrit स्था (sthā, “to stand”).

  1. derived from *steh₂-✻
  2. inherited from *standaną✻
  3. inherited from *standan✻
  4. inherited from standan
  5. inherited from stonden

Definitions

  1. To position or be positioned physically

    To position or be positioned physically:

    • Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
    • I can't reach the celing. Get me a chair to stand on.
    • Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.

  2. To position or be positioned mentally

    To position or be positioned mentally:

    • He stands to get a good price for the house.

  3. To position or be positioned socially

    To position or be positioned socially:

  4. ›+ 27 more definitions

    1. Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified…

      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[…].

    2. To remain without ruin or injury.

      • My mind on its own centre stands unmov'd.
      • The ruin'd wall / Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.

    3. To stop asking for more cards

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

    4. The act of standing.

      • I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings.

    5. A defensive position or effort.

      • The Commander says we will make our stand here.

    6. A resolute, unwavering position

      A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.

      • They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.
      • There are also a growing number of lesbians in prison who are out about being lesbian and that stand in and of itself is much stronger than being out on the outside. These women are in much greater danger.

    7. A period of performance in a given location or venue.

      • They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees.
      • They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.

    8. A device to hold something upright or aloft.

      • He set the music upon the stand and began to play.  an umbrella stand;  a hat-stand
      • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

    9. The platform on which a witness testifies in court

      The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.

      • She took the stand and quietly answered questions.
      • Shortly after Ellison started at Alameda around fall 2018 as a trader, she learned that the company was financially far sicker than she had known, she said on the stand.

    10. An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.

      • When a member has failed to comply with his bargains the fact is announced from one of the stands, […]
      • Just as that clock is striking now, the two waiters appear on the stands and take off their hats, as if to a corpse.

    11. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.

      • This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.
      • Pernambuco is a coastal wood which grows in maintained stands in Brazil.

    12. A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition,…

      A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.

    13. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found…

      A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.

      • Antonia's patience now was at a stand— "Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there," She whispered[…]

    14. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.

    15. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.

      • a taxi stand

    16. The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.

      • a good, bad, or convenient stand for business

    17. Ellipsis of tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).

    18. Grandstand. (often in the plural)

      • The end of the opening period was relatively quite [sic] as Vassiljev's desperate shot from well outside the penalty area flew into the stand housing the Irish supporters and then Ward's ctoss [sic] was gathered by goalkeeper Pareiko.

    19. A partnership.

      • England wrapped up a five-wicket victory in the first Test as a stand of 132 between Alastair Cook and Ian Bell saw off an early West Indies charge.

    20. A single set, as of arms.

      • The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.

    21. Rank

      Rank; post; station; standing.

      • Father, since your fortune did attain / So high a stand, I mean not to descend.

    22. A state of perplexity or embarrassment.

      • to be at a stand what to do

    23. A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut

      A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.

    24. A location or position where one may stand.

      • Come, I have found you out a stand most fit, / Where you may have such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass you.

    25. An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.

      • The cost of the printing alone will average $2 a 'stand.' The sheets are about 28x42 inches and are in four colors, which means they must go through the process four times.

    26. A container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask.

      • Item, for a ſtande of small ale - ii s.
      • […]one gialfatte, 3 stannes 3s.,[…]
      • Therefore at length sir Iefferie bethought him of a feat whereby he might both visit the alestond, and also keepe his othe.

    27. A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at stand. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at stand. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at stand

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA