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standing
1. v. present participle of stand
2. adj. Erect, not cut down.
3. adj. Performed from an erect position.
standing ovation
4. adj. Remaining in force or status.
standing committee
5. adj. Stagnant; not moving or flowing.
standing water
6. adj. Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.
a standing colour
7. adj. Not movable; fixed.
a standing bed, distinguished from a trundle-bed
the standing rigging of a ship
8. n. Position or reputation in society or a profession.
He does not have much of a standing as a chemist.
9. n. Duration.
a member of long standing
10. n. The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
I will provide you a good standing to see his entry. — Francis Bacon.
I think in deep mire, where there is no standing. — Psalms lxix. 2.
11. n. (sports) 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.
12. n. (British) room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
13. n. (legal) 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.
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.
stand
1. v. To position or be positioned physically.:
2. v. (intransitive) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
3. v. (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.
4. v. (intransitive) To remain motionless.
Do not leave your car standing in the road.
5. v. (intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
6. v. To place in an upright or standing position.
He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
7. v. (intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
Paris stands on the Seine.
8. v. (intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet.
9. v. (intransitive) (of tears) To be present, to have welled up (in the eyes).
10. v. To position or be positioned mentally.:
11. v. (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.
He stands to get a good price for the house.
12. v. (transitive, negative) To tolerate.
I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.
I can’t stand him.
13. v. (intransitive) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
14. v. (intransitive) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
15. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
16. v. To position or be positioned socially.:
17. v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire.
18. v. To undergo; withstand; hold up.
The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.
19. v. (intransitive, British) To seek election.
He is standing for election to the local council.
20. v. (intransitive) To be valid.
What I said yesterday still stands.
21. v. To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
22. v. To cover the expense of; to pay for.
to stand a treat
23. v. (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.
24. v. (intransitive) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
25. v. (intransitive) To appear in court.
26. v. (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
27. v. (intransitive) To remain without ruin or injury.
28. v. (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
29. n. The act of standing.
30. n. A defensive position or effort.
The Commander says we will make our stand here.
31. n. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.
32. n. 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.
33. n. 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
34. n. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
She took the stand and quietly answered questions.
35. n. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.
36. n. (forestry) 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.
37. n. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
38. n. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
39. n. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
a taxi stand
40. n. (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
a good, bad, or convenient stand for business
41. n. (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural)
42. n. (cricket) A partnership.
43. n. (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
44. n. (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.
45. n. (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
to be at a stand what to do
46. n. 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
47. n. (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
48. n. A location or position where one may stand.
up
1. adv. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
I looked up and saw the airplane overhead.
2. adv. (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state Thoroughly, completely.
I will mix up the puzzle pieces.
Tear up the contract.
He really messed up.
Please type up our monthly report.
3. adv. To or from one's possession or consideration.
I picked up some milk on the way home.
The committee will take up your request.
She had to give up her driver's license after the accident.
4. adv. North.
I will go up to New York to visit my family this weekend.
5. adv. To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets.
Turn it up, I can barely hear it.
Listen to your voice go up at the end of a question.
Cheer up, the weekend's almost here.
6. adv. (rail transport) Traditional term for the direction leading to the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
7. adv. (sailing) Against the wind or current.
8. adv. (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
9. adv. (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.
The bowler pitched the ball up.
10. adv. (hospitality, US) Without additional ice.
Would you like that drink up or on ice?
11. adv. (academia) Towards Cambridge or Oxford.
She's going up to read Classics this September.
12. adv. To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
I was up to my chin in water.
A stranger came up and asked me for directions.
13. adv. To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite.
Drink up. The pub is closing.
Can you sum up your research?
The comet burned up in the atmosphere.
I need to sew up the hole in this shirt.
14. adv. Aside, so as not to be in use.
to lay up riches; put up your weapons
15. prep. Toward the top of.
The cat went up the tree. They walk up the steps.
16. prep. Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
The information made its way up the chain of command to the general. I felt something crawling up my arm.
17. prep. Further along (in any direction).
Go up the street until you see the sign.
18. prep. From south to north of
19. prep. From the mouth towards the source (of a river or waterway).
20. prep. (vulgar slang) Of a man: having sex with.
Phwoar, look at that bird. I'd love to be up her.
21. prep. (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more remote from a central location).
22. adj. Awake.
I can’t believe it’s 3 a.m. and you’re still up.
23. adj. Finished, to an end
Time is up!
24. adj. In a good mood.
I’m feeling up today.
25. adj. Willing; ready.
If you are up for a trip, let’s go.
26. adj. Next in a sequence.
Smith is up to bat.
27. adj. Happening; new.
What is up with that project at headquarters?
28. adj. Facing upwards; facing toward the top.
Put the notebook face up on the table.
Take a break and put your feet up.
29. adj. Larger; greater in quantity.
Sales are up from last quarter.
30. adj. Ahead; leading; winning.
The home team were up by two goals at half-time.
31. adj. Standing.
Get up and give her your seat.
32. adj. On a higher level.
The new ground is up.
33. adj. Available; made public.
The new notices are up as of last Tuesday.
34. adj. (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
AAKK = aces up
QQ33 = queens up
35. adj. Well-informed; current.
I’m not up on the latest news. What’s going on?
36. adj. (computing) Functional; working.
Is the server back up?
37. adj. (anchor, Adj_railway)(of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
The London train is on the up line.
38. adj. Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.
39. adj. (bar tending) Chilled and strained into a stemmed glass.
A Cosmopolitan is typically served up.
40. adj. (slang) Erect.
41. adj. (of the Sun or Moon) Above the horizon, in the sky (i.e. during daytime or night-time)
42. adj. (slang) well-known; renowned
43. n. The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
Up is a good way to go.
44. n. A positive thing.
I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home.
45. n. An upstairs room of a two story house.
She lives in a two-up two-down.
46. v. (transitive, colloquial) To increase or raise.
If we up the volume, we'll be able to make out the details.
We upped anchor and sailed away.
47. v. (transitive, colloquial) To promote.
It wasn’t long before they upped him to Vice President.
48. v. (intransitive) To act suddenly, usually with another verb.

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