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What does stand mean?

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Verb
  1. (heading) To position or be positioned physically.
    1. (intransitive) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
    2. (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
    3. (intransitive) To remain motionless.
    4. (intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
    5. (transitive) To place in an upright or standing position.
    6. (intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
    7. (intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet.
    8. (intransitive) (of tears) To be present, to have welled up (in the eyes).
  2. (heading) To position or be positioned mentally.
    1. (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.
    2. (transitive, negative) To tolerate.
    3. (intransitive) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
    4. (intransitive) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
    5. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
  3. (heading) To position or be positioned socially.
    1. (intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire.
    2. (transitive) To undergo; withstand; hold up.
    3. (intransitive, Britain) To seek election.
    4. (intransitive) To be valid.
    5. (transitive) To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
    6. (transitive) To cover the expense of; to pay for.
    7. (intransitive) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
    8. (intransitive) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
    9. (intransitive) To appear in court.
  4. (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
  5. (intransitive) To remain without ruin or injury.
  6. (card game) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
Noun
  1. The act of standing.
  2. A defensive position or effort.
  3. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
  4. A period of performance in a given location or venue.
  5. A device to hold something upright or aloft.
  6. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
  7. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
  8. (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.
  9. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
  10. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
  11. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
  12. (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
  13. (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural)
  14. (cricket) A partnership.
  15. (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
  16. (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.
  17. (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
  18. 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.
  19. (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
  20. A location or position where one may stand.
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