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{{n-g|To position or be positioned physically:}}
(copulative) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
(copulative) 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.
{{n-g|To position or be positioned mentally:}}
(followed by ''to'' + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.
(tolerate) (negative polarity) To tolerate.
(copulative) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
(copulative) 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.
{{n-g|To position or be positioned socially:}}
(cricket) To act as an umpire.
To undergo; withstand; hold up.
(be candidate)(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.).
(copulative) 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.
(device to hold something upright or aloft) 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.
(dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
(historical) (a roadside inn)
(grandstand)(sports) Grandstand. {{qualifier|often in the plural}}
(cricket) A partnership.
(plural often stand) 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.
(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.