standing
verbEtymology
From Middle English standynge, stondynge, standende, stondinde, standande, stondande, from Old English standende, stondende, from Proto-Germanic *standandz (“standing”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *standaną (“to stand”), equivalent to stand + -ing.
Definitions
present participle and gerund of stand
- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
Erect, not cut down.
Performed from an erect position.
- standing ovation
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Remaining in force or status
Remaining in force or status; ongoing.
- standing committee
Stagnant
Stagnant; not moving or flowing.
- standing water
Not transitory
Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.
- a standing colour
Not movable
Not movable; fixed.
- a standing bed, distinguished from a trundle-bed
- the standing rigging of a ship
Position or reputation in society or a profession.
- He does not have much of a standing as a chemist.
- The males constantly test their standing, looking to move up in the hierarchy.
- The Russian president has given a series of public addresses this week in a bid to repair his public standing, and portray Wagner’s march on Moscow as a moment that unified Russia.
Duration.
- a member of long standing
The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
- Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them? Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot, Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt.
- I sinke in deepe mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deepe waters, where the flouds ouerflow me.
- I will provide you and your fellows of a good standing to see his entry
The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
- After their last win, their standing went up three places.
Room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
- "There was no garage at Lathbury Road, but we had standing for two cars in front of the house."
- "The engineering crisis boiled down to roads, hard standing, and waste."
The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that…
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.
- to have standing
- He may be insulting, a miserable rotter and a fool, but unless he slanders or libels you, or damages your property, you do not have standing to sue him.
The location on a street where a market trader habitually operates.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- antonymmovingantonym(s) of “stagnant”
- antonymworkingantonym(s) of “stagnant”
- neighborcause of action
Derived
all standing, bystanding, forestanding, freestanding, free-standing, a standing start, fullstanding, hardstanding, last man standing, long-standing, nonstanding, offstanding, outstanding, self-standing, standing army, standing cloud, standing committee, standing crop, standing cup, standing desk, standing eight, standing end, standing ground, standing joke, standingly, standing mile, standing O, standing order, standing ovation, standing part, standing rib, standing rigging, standing room, standing rule, standing seam, standing start, standing stock, standing stone, standing water, standing wave · +7 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at standing. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at standing. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at standing
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