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To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.

To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.

To remain motionless.

To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.

To place in an upright or standing position.

To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.

To measure when erect on the feet.

(of tears, sweat, etc.) To be present, to have welled up.

To be positioned to gain or lose.

To tolerate.

To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.

To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.

(obsolete) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.

(cricket) To act as an umpire.

To undergo; withstand; hold up.

(British) To be a candidate (in an election).

To remain valid.

To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.

To cover the expense of; to pay for.

To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.

To be consistent; to agree; to accord.

To appear in court.

(nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).

To remain without ruin or injury.

(card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.

The act of standing.

A defensive position or effort.

A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.

A period of performance in a given location or venue.

A device to hold something upright or aloft.

The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.

(historical) An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.

A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.

(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.

A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.

A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.

A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.

(US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.

(US, historical) A roadside inn.

(sports) Grandstand.

(cricket) A partnership.

(military) A single set, as of arms.

(obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.

(dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.

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.

A location or position where one may stand.

(advertising) An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.

(US, Scotland, dated) A container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask.

(obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.