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Standing

noun

1.

Social or financial or professional status or reputation. "A member in good standing"

2.

An ordered listing of scores or results showing the relative positions of competitors (individuals or teams) in a sporting event.

3.

The act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position.

adjective

1.

Having a supporting base.

2.

Not created for a particular occasion.

3.

(of fluids) not moving or flowing.

4.

Executed in or initiated from a standing position. "A standing jump" , "A standing ovation"

5.

(of persons) on the feet; having the torso in an erect position supported by straight legs.

6.

Permanent.

Stand

verb

(past & past part. stood; pres. part. standing)

1.

Be standing; be upright. Synonym: stand up.

2.

Be in some specified state or condition.

3.

Occupy a place or location, also metaphorically.

4.

Hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright. Synonym: remain firm.

5.

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant. Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate. "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks" , "He learned to tolerate the heat" , "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

6.

Have or maintain a position or stand on an issue.

7.

Remain inactive or immobile.

8.

Be in effect; be or remain in force.

9.

Be tall; have a height of; copula.

10.

Put into an upright position. Synonyms: place upright, stand up.

11.

Withstand the force of something. Synonyms: fend, resist. "Stand the test of time" , "The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow"

12.

Be available for stud services.

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"Standing" Quotes from Famous Books

... answered were Elisabeth's. Unnoticed, she had entered the room and was standing just outside the little group of people clustered round the hearth—her slim, black-robed figure, with its characteristic little air of stateliness, sharply defined in the ruddy glow ...

— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler

... with a dish of eggs and bacon, desired she would conduct him into the chamber where she proposed he should take his repose. He was accordingly ushered up by a sort of ladder into an apartment furnished with a standing-bed, and almost half filled with trusses of straw. He seemed extremely well pleased with his lodging, which in reality exceeded his expectation; and his kind landlady, cautioning him against letting the candle approach ...

— The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete • Tobias Smollett

... were bound was the last in the village, standing alone among lilacs; and beyond it, on three sides, there was open meadow rising towards the borders of ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... England (1066) subjected the nation at once to both of the ruling mediaeval impulses: feudalism, which metamorphosed the relative positions of the people and the nobles, and the recognition of papal supremacy, which altered not less thoroughly the standing of the church. While these changes were not unproductive of good at that time, they were distasteful to the nation, and soon became injurious, both to freedom and knowledge, until at length, under the dynasty of the Tudors, the ecclesiastical ...

— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta

... was conveyed, partly by land and partly by water (what water, in those Apennine valleys where there are no streams save torrents in which even a punt would be impossible, it is difficult to understand), to a house standing in a garden. That it did stand in a garden appears to have been a piece of information volunteered by the mysterious Chevalier Graham, for Dr. Beaton expressly states that it was not till the two had passed through a "long range of apartments" that ...

— The Countess of Albany • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)

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