Word Finder - stands

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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.

The city stands at the head of a small valley, 11,380 ft.

The letter M stands for " Midland."

Well, it stands to reason, doesn't it?

Then parliament enacted a new system of Church courts which, though to some extent in its turn superseded by the revival of episcopacy under James VI., was revived or ratified by the act of 1690, c. 7, and stands to this day.

Agriculture stands at a low level in Russia.

There's more than one-night stands.

Most of them were no more than one night stands.

Sculptured slabs form balustrades to the steps leading up to the temple, and its exterior is ornamented with figures in stucco, the outer faces of the four pillars in front having life-size figures of women with children in their arms. The small Temple of Beau Relief stands on a narrow ledge of rock against the steep slope of the mountain.

Not far from the scene of this conflict stands Balquhain Castle, a seat of the Leslies, now a mere shell, which was occupied by Queen Mary in September 1562 before the fight at Corrichie between her forces, led by the earl of Moray, and those of the earl of Huntly.

At the north end stands Fort Charlotte, erected by Cromwell, repaired in 1665 by Charles II.

On an islet in the lake stands a ruined "broth" or round tower.

Ethics here stands to sociology in a close relation, similar, in many respects, to that which we find in Hegel and in Comte.

Of the total, 77% stands at 4% and 17 at less than 4%.

The choir stands about 4 ft.

The General Register House for Scotland, begun in 1 774 from designs by Robert Adam, stands at the east end of Princes Street.

Great. Now we each know where the other stands.

She didn't do one-night stands.

I'm guessing you weren't one of his one night stands.

Crossing the Murray at Albury, the explorers, bearing to the south-west, skirted the western shore of Port Philip and reached the sea-coast near where the town of Geelong now stands.

The number 30 stands obviously in connexion with the thirty days as the average extent of his course until he stands again in conjunction with the sun.

For the natural realist stands upon the common-sense position that minds and material objects have equally effective existence; while the idealist explains matter by mind and denies that mind can be explained by matter.

The church of the Holy Trinity (built in 1870) stands at the southern end of the rue d'Isly near the site of the demolished Fort Bab Azoun.

It stands at the mouth of the Veveyse and commands fine views of the snowy mountains seen over the glassy surface of the lake.

The city stands at the foot of low bluffs, about a mile from the shore line.

It stands in the parade ground of the Brompton barracks, facing the Crimean arch.

The electromotive force of each cell is i 07 volts and the resistance 3 ohms. The Fuller bichromate battery consists of an outer jar containing a solution of bichromate of potash and sulphuric acid, in which a plate of hard carbon is immersed; in the jar there is also a porous pot containing dilute sulphuric acid and a small quantity (2 oz.) of mercury, in which stands a stout zinc rod.

The city stands on a hill separated by a little plain from the harbour; towards the north and east it communicates with a fertile valley; on the south and west it is hemmed in by high mountains.

Eight days after birth the young Arabian camel stands 3 ft.

This is the last word of religious truth, though pure philosophy stands still higher.

Ceratella stands in much the same relation to the Stylasteridae that Hydractinia does to the Milleporidae, in both cases the chitinous perisarc being replaced by the solid coenosteum to which the hydrocorallines owe the second half of their name.

On the Constantins platz stands the magnificent brick basilica, probably of the age of Constantine, though the south and east walls are modern.

It stands upon the slope and summit of the cliffs above Filey Bay, which is fringed by a fine sandy beach.

The method is simply the logical result of the fact that every existing form of life stands at the summit of a long branch of the whole tree of life.

The decree of 1885 finally established the building for the purpose for which the name now stands.

The older road crossed the back of the promontory at the foot of which Terracina stands; in imperial times, probably, the rock was cut away perpendicularly for a height of 120 ft.

In the centre of the city stands the unfinished Belfry (Beffroi), a square tower some 300 ft.

In it stands a bronze statue of Jacob van Artevelde, by DevigneQuyo, erected in 1863.

Near the tolbooth stands the market cross, a stone column with a unicorn on the top supporting the burgh arms. At the west end of High Street is a statue of David Macbeth Moir ("Delta," 1798-1851), Musselburgh's most famous son.

The isthmus on which the town stands (which position has caused it to be likened to Corinth) can be crossed without surmounting any great elevation, and offers a feasible canal route.

Yet the town is under no great industrial or other modernizing influence, and therefore stands in the position of an ancient shrine, drawing a pilgrimage of modern origin.

The plan of Shakespeare's Stratford at least is preserved, for the road crossing Clopton's bridge is an ancient highway, and forks in the midst of the town into three great branches, about which the village grew up. The high cross no longer stands at the marketplace where these roads converged.

The memorial stands by the river above the church, and above again lie the Bancroft or Bank croft gardens where, in.

The present dome and the drum on which it stands, masterpieces of graceful line and harmonious proportion, were very important alterations from the earlier scheme.

A peculiar feature in which tropical Africa stands alone is that at least one-fifth and probably more of the species are common to both sides of the continent and presumably stretch right across it.

Beryllium to a certain extent stands alone in many of its chemical' properties, resembling to some extent the metal aluminium.

The name of Torquemada stands for all that is intolerant and narrow, despotic and cruel.

They express the main complexes of land with their dependencies in well-chosen terms; for instance the " Neotropical region " stands short for South and Central America with the Antilles.

The church of St Helen stands near the river, and its fine Early English tower with Perpendicular spire is the principal object in the pleasant views of the town from the river.

Cali stands 3327 ft.

It stands near the border of Victoria, on the right bank of the Murray river, here crossed by two bridges, one built of wood carrying a road, the other of iron bearing the railway.