Word Finder - stand

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The act of standing.

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A defensive position or effort.

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The Commander says we will make our stand here.

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

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They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.

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A period of performance in a given location or venue.

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

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A device to hold something upright or aloft.

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He set the music upon the stand and began to play.  an umbrella stand;  a hat-stand

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

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She took the stand and quietly answered questions.

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A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.

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This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.

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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.

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

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

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

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a taxi stand

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

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a good, bad, or convenient stand for business

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Grandstand. (often in the plural)

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A partnership.

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(plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.

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Rank; post; station; standing.

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A state of perplexity or embarrassment.

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to be at a stand what to do

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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.

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

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A location or position where one may stand.

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(heading) To position or be positioned physically.

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(heading) To position or be positioned mentally.

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(heading) To position or be positioned socially.

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

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To remain without ruin or injury.

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

Don't just stand there.

He can't stand to sit around and do nothing.

It was time to stand on her own two feet.

I still don't know how you can stand that cold wind.

If you don't stand up and demand a change, he'll keep on doing it.

I cannot stand it here.

Yes. I just can't stand sitting around.

She moved away from Darkyn to stand in front of Gabriel, searching his gaze.

The next one that whispers must come out and stand in the middle of the floor.

When they paused on the bank, she could stand the pain no longer.

I thought you might want to stand by.

Stand up there holding Julie's hand.

Now stand up slowly.

If you think you'd be happier with Claudette, I won't stand in your way, but I want to make it clear that I don't want you to go.

As the man took her arm to help her stand, his haggard face appeared in yet another vision.

He helped her up and she tried to stand, but her legs felt like rubber.

I should have moved away, but I couldn't stand to leave the ranch.

They went to what had been a Nook sales stand in the center of the store and was blocked off for him.

Life did not stand still and it was necessary to live.

She watched him head for the barn and wondered how he could stand being out in the cold all day.

Before she started to drift into an in-between place, she saw Darian stand and look around, awake for the first time in thousands of years.

Lydia Larkin was bent over at the waist, hardly able to stand, clutching her mid-section.

I know you would stand beside me - maybe even in front of me with the intent of protecting me.

He moved to stand beside her.

Any darker color, and she would stand out even more.

Jackson managed to stand tall and keep eye contact, although, he was a breath away from begging for their lives.

Jackson picked her up by the throat and slammed her against a tree, "I should kill you where you stand, you filthy dog!"

I can't stand this any-more—come on, let's put our feet in the brook!

How can you stand her voice?

Several of the original low brick buildings, built between 1816 and 1820r still stand.

When only a child he liked to stand by the river and see the ships sailing past.

Me ordering a second helping of corn on the cob while dining at the Black Eyed Pea also increases demand for corn, but for doing so, I shouldn't stand trial for murder.

After a few words of greeting, each candidate was directed to stand on either side of the raised platform.

His eyes flashed, and she hurried to stand before him with her neck craned back to meet his gaze, toe-to-toe with the beast.

You think I'd let you stand between me and my fate?

She bent down to pick up a yet unscathed pillow, startled to stand and see Rhyn had changed to his human form.

She elbowed Romas away to stand before Kiera.

Dean couldn't stand the suspense.

It was one thing to stand firm on the issue of casual sex, but this was the man she would be married to in less than two weeks.

No part of him wanted to stand on the sidelines, watching her struggle.

Except in hard rock, the top width of a cutting, and therefore the amount of material to be excavated, increases rapidly with the depth; hence if a cutting exceeds a certain depth, which varies with the particular circumstances, it may be more economical, instead of forming the sides at the slope at which the material of which they are composed will stand, to make them nearly vertical and support the soil with a retaining wall, or to bore a tunnel.

We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity.

At midnight, when there was a moon, I sometimes met with hounds in my path prowling about the woods, which would skulk out of my way, as if afraid, and stand silent amid the bushes till I had passed.

What does Africa--what does the West stand for?

And my father cannot stand this.

But not only was it impossible to make out what was happening from where he was standing down below, or from the knoll above on which some of his generals had taken their stand, but even from the fleches themselves--in which by this time there were now Russian and now French soldiers, alternately or together, dead, wounded, alive, frightened, or maddened-- even at those fleches themselves it was impossible to make out what was taking place.

Actually, it could stand a good washing and a paint job, but surely he didn't expect her to do that.

She could paint anywhere, and her life was otherwise so unfulfilling, Evelyn didn't know how she could stand it.

She was more than a one-night stand or a rerun.

The French were making a stand there behind a wattle fence in a garden thickly overgrown with bushes and were firing at the Cossacks who crowded at the gateway.