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Standing   /stˈændɪŋ/   Listen
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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... there is a great market of diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and many other precious stones. From thence we went to Bejapoor, a very large city, where the king keeps his court, in which there are many Gentiles, who are gross idolaters, having their idols standing in the woods, which they call pagodas. Some of these are like a cow, some like a monkey, some like a buffalo, others resemble a peacock, and others like the devil. In this country are many elephants, which they employ in their wars. They have great ...
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... the room two or three times enjoying the peculiar sensation, I began to wonder what they had been doing at the hospital during my absence. Immediately I found myself in the hospital ward. Dr. Ford and two nurses were standing by a cot at the north end, and glancing at the chart on the table I saw ...
— Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales • Charles B. Cory

... another opening among the trees, like unto that in which his comrades slept, and now, lying close in the undergrowth, he looked for the first time upon the sight which so often boded ill to his kind. The warriors were in a group, some sitting others standing, and though there was no fire and the moonlight was slight he could mark the primitive brutality of their features, the nature of the animal that fought at all times for life showing in their eyes. They were hard, harsh and repellent in every aspect, but the boy felt for a moment a singular ...
— The Young Trailers - A Story of Early Kentucky • Joseph A. Altsheler

... man sat in a room of a stone house in the ancient City of Mexico, capital in turn of Aztec, Spaniard and Mexican. They could see through the narrow windows masses of low buildings and tile roofs, and beyond, the swelling shape of great mountains, standing clear against the blue sky. But they had looked upon them so often that the mind took no note of the luminous spectacle. The cry of a water-seller or the occasional jingle of a spur came from the street below, but these, too, were familiar ...
— The Texan Star - The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty • Joseph A. Altsheler

... telling her to keep perfectly still, and the child, accustomed to that sort of thing, showed neither alarm nor surprise, but stood quietly, looking straight before her with perfect serenity, while Agostino, at the other end of the room, standing with one foot advanced, balanced the dread navaja in his hand. Suddenly with a quick jerking movement he sent it flying through the air, and it struck into the wooden door, just over Chiquita's head. As it darted ...
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