stand
/stænd/ verb A2- To support oneself on the feet in an erect position. · Here I stand, wondering what to do next.· I can't reach the ceiling. Get me a chair to stand on.
- To rise to one’s feet; to stand up. · Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.
- To remain motionless. · Do not leave your car standing in the road.
- To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
- To place in an upright or standing position. · He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
- To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated. · Paris stands on the Seine.
- To measure when erect on the feet.
- To be present, to have welled up.
Plural stand · He/she/it stands · Past stood · Past participle stood · -ing form standing
Verb forms
- Base form
- stand
- He/she/it
- stands
- Past
- stood
- Past participle
- stood
- -ing form
- standing
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- stand around To stand without doing anything; to do nothing productive...
- stand aside To step sideways to make a space for someone else.
- stand back To maintain distance.
- stand by To wait in expectation of some event; to be ready.
- stand down To wait; to stop pursuing, stop fighting, or relax from a...
- stand in To substitute for; to replace
- stand off To stand some distance apart from something or someone.
- stand on To continue following the same course.
- stand out To jut out, protrude (from a surface etc.).
- stand over To be very watchful of.
- stand up To rise from a lying or sitting position.
From the library
However, those experienced in navigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all the evidence of being skilfully handled, the anchor a-cockbill, the jib-boom guys already eased off, and standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and repeated each direction of the pilot.
Dorothy stood in the door with Toto in her arms, and looked at the sky too.
Then, as they were just passing the Round Tower, the young man shouted: “Stand by there to lower the topsails and jib; brail up the spanker!”
Well, you stand well with M.
Other matches
- stand The act of standing. A1
- stand around To stand without doing anything
- stand aside To step sideways to make a space for someone else.
- stand back To maintain distance.
- stand by To wait in expectation of some event
- stand down To wait
- stand in To substitute for
- stand off To stand some distance apart from something or ...
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