stand

Definitions

General English

  • noun

    something

    which

    holds something up
  • verb to be

    upright

    on

    your

    feet, the opposite of

    sitting

    or lying down
  • verb to

    accept

    something

    bad

    that

    continues

Agriculture

  • noun a group of plants or trees growing together

Commerce

  • noun an

    arrangement

    of shelves or tables at an

    exhibition

    for showing a company’s products

Cricket

  • noun a period in which two batsmen are

    batting

    together, considered in terms of the runs that are scored while they are at the wicket; ‘stand’ is used interchangeably with ‘partnership’, but perhaps carries an added suggestion of defiance in adverse circumstances (think of Custer’s last stand), and so is often used to describe partnerships involving

    late order

    batsmen
    Citation ‘The Baptiste-Holding stand for the ninth wicket was worth 150’ (David Frith, WCM August 1984)
    Citation ‘Mohinder Amarnath, for long considered India’s best – or at least bravest – batsman against genuine pace, puts together a stand with Yashpal Sharma’ (Bhattacharya 2006)
  • verb (of an umpire) to officiate in a match
    Citation ‘After “standing” in a match at Beersheva I gave a 90-minute lecture in a school in the middle of the Negev desert’ (Oslear & Mosey 1993)
    Citation ‘Though ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed was at pains to confirm that “I hope we can find a way in which Darrell Hair can continue to umpire at international level”, the chances of the burly Australian standing on the world stage again must be remote’ (Vic Marks, Observer 27 August 2006)

Law

  • noun the position of a member of Congress on a question (either for or against)
  • verb to offer yourself as a

    candidate

    in an

    election

Medical

  • verb to be in an upright position with your bodyweight resting on your feet, or to put a person in this position

Military

  • verb to support yourself, using your feet and legs, in a stationary position

Travel

  • noun a place where an

    aircraft

    waits for passengers to board

Origin & History of “stand”

Stand goes back ultimately to the prehistoric Indo-European base *stā- ‘stand’.

this

passed into Germanic as *sta-, *stō-. Addition of the suffix *-nd- produced *standan, source of

English

stand,

while

past

forms were created

with

the suffix *-t-,

which

has given English stood. Another descendant of the Indo-European base was Latin stāre ‘stand’, a prolific source of English words (

among

them

stage,

stanza

, state, station, statue, etc).
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