The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outstand \Out*stand"\, v. i. To stand out, or project, from a surface or mass; hence, to remain standing out.
Outstand \Out*stand"\, v. t.
To resist effectually; to withstand; to sustain without yielding. [R.]
--Woodward.To stay beyond. ``I have outstood my time.''
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To resist effectually; withstand; sustain without yielding. 2 (context transitive English) To surpass in standing; stand or remain beyond; outstay. 3 (context intransitive English) To project outward from the main body; stand out prominently; be prominent. 4 (context intransitive English) To stand out to se
5 (context intransitive English) To stand over; remain untouched, unimpaired, unsettled, uncollected, unpaid, or otherwise undetermined.
Usage examples of "outstand".
And is it a coincidence that the outstanding achievement of Mayan society was its observational astronomy, upon which, through the medium of advanced mathematical calculations, was based a clever, complex, sophisticated and very accurate calendar?
Sandra Moore is the owner of the real Celt, a wonderful borzoi with outstanding qualities.
But he was that rare combination of an outstanding seaman and a tremendous social asset on a passenger ship, and it was for these reasons that captain Bullen had insisted on having him aboard.
One of the Royal Archers, an outstanding markswoman, slew three of the shotmen attending the mangonels with swift arrows from her longbow.
As long as she builds you up and makes you love Milt Warden more, because he is such a fine outstanding man, you love her too, naturally.
Hulme resigned the rectorship of the university college to return to England, where his outstanding scientific talent was required in the British atomic research team led by Sir William Penney.
If you have every organization in Iraq penetrated, if you have every Iraqi citizen so terrified that he or she believes that every word he or she utters is heard by the security services, and if you are willing to kill or torture every member of Iraqi society to find the information you seek, you can be just as effective as if you had brilliant agents, outstanding tradecraft, and ultrasophisticated technology.
In a typically Cervantine way, by telling a story, it paints a moving portrait of Cervantes as the outstanding Spanish writer of his time, clearly superior to all his contemporaries and yet tragically unrecompensed for his gifts to humanity and his service to his country.
With the Ayuntamiento debt outstanding andwiththe stipend I am sending you, there is nothing left for frivolities.
The outstanding examples of counterinsurgent atrocity can be found in Argentina, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
Sabine system imposes a fine of five thousand credits for improper undock, and you have an outstanding ship balance due of 2345 credits for docking services.
Perhaps the best thing to do is to consider the forces which for the last two generations have been challenging and reshaping inherited faiths, and then to consider the outcome of it all in the outstanding religious attitudes of our own time.
Solomon Alkabez, an outstanding mystical writer and, at that time, the leading Kabbalist of Safed.
He exchanged some members of the Cabinet for such personalities who were in sympathy with the polices of Hitler, and thus he replaced the outstanding Minister of Foreign Affairs Kalman Kanya, who never was in the favor of Berlin, with Count Istvan Csaky.
I was leafing through the file on one of our new outstanding cases when Claire appeared at my door.