stand

Signification

Verb

1. To position or be positioned physically:
2. To position or be positioned physically:
3. To position or be positioned physically:
4. To position or be positioned physically:
5. To position or be positioned physically:
6. To position or be positioned physically:
7. To position or be positioned physically:
8. To position or be positioned physically:
9. To position or be positioned mentally:
10. To position or be positioned mentally:
11. To position or be positioned mentally:
12. To position or be positioned mentally:
13. (obsolete) To position or be positioned mentally:
14. To position or be positioned socially:
15. To position or be positioned socially:
16. To position or be positioned socially:
17. To position or be positioned socially:
18. To position or be positioned socially:
19. To position or be positioned socially:
20. To position or be positioned socially:
21. To position or be positioned socially:
22. To position or be positioned socially:
23. Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
24. To remain without ruin or injury.
25. 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. An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
8. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
9. 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.
10. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
11. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
12. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
13. The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
14. Short for tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).
15. Grandstand. (often in the plural)
16. A partnership.
17. A single set, as of arms.
18. (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.
19. A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
20. 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.
21. A location or position where one may stand.
22. An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
23. A type of psychically created being in the anime and manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, named for the fact that they appear to 'stand' next to their user.

Noun

1. A container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask.
2. (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/stænd/

Étymologie

From Middle English standen, stonden (verb) and stand, stond (noun, from the verb), from Old English standan (“to stand, occupy a place”), from Proto-West Germanic *standan, from Proto-Germanic *standaną (“to stand”), from Pre-Germanic *sth₂-n-t-´, an innovative extended n-infixed form of Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.
cognates
Cognate with Scots stand (“to stand”), Saterland Frisian stounde (“to stand”), West Frisian stean (“to stand”), dialectal German standen (“to stand”), Danish stande (“to stand”), Swedish stånda (“to stand”), Norwegian standa (“to stand”), Faroese standa (“to stand”), Icelandic standa (“to stand”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (standan), Russian стоя́ть (stojátʹ, “to stand”). Also from *steh₂-: Irish seas, Latin stare, Lithuanian stóti, Old Church Slavonic стояти (stojati), Albanian shtoj (“to increase”), Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to put”), Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (hištaⁱti), Sanskrit तिष्ठति (tiṣṭhati). From the related Proto-Germanic *stāną (“to stand”): West Frisian stean, Dutch staan, German stehen, Danish stå.

Phrases

Look , the seam is now broken , it couldn't stand the jerk .

Regardez, la couture est maintenant cassée, elle ne pouvait pas supporter le con.