Crossword clues for standing
standing
- Upright
- Part of S.R.O.
- Substitute with good reputation
- Status, reputation
- Status - on one's feet
- Social reputation
- Just union's deputy, perhaps, is very busy
- Part of S.R.O
- Status — on one's feet
- On line, maybe
- Ancient monument
- Part of ancient site bearing weight
- Eccentric stranger in odd arrangement for regular payments
- On one’s feet with regularity giving instruction to bank
- Reputation state bank gets from customer
- Instruction to bank to make regular payments
- Instruction for regular payments
- Two ways to rank second bank’s services
- Copula
- Put into an upright position
- Have a height of
- Be tall
- Be or remain in force
- Be in effect
- Remain inactive, as of a car in a garage, or not flowing, as of water
- Be steadfast or upright
- Maintain a position
- Hold one's ground
- Occupy a place or location, also metaphorically
- Be in some specified state or condition
- The act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position
- Social or financial or professional status or reputation
- Be available for stud services, of male domestic animals such as stallions
- Put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- Kind of army that must get tired
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stand \Stand\ (st[a^]nd), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stood (st[oo^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Standing.] [OE. standen; AS. standan; akin to OFries. stonda, st[=a]n, D. staan, OS. standan, st[=a]n, OHG. stantan, st[=a]n, G. stehen, Icel. standa, Dan. staae, Sw. st[*a], Goth. standan, Russ. stoiate, L. stare, Gr. 'ista`nai to cause to stand, sth^nai to stand, Skr. sth[=a]. [root]163. Cf. Assist, Constant, Contrast, Desist, Destine, Ecstasy, Exist, Interstice, Obstacle, Obstinate, Prest, n., Rest remainder, Solstice, Stable, a. & n., Staff, Stage, Stall, n., Stamen, Stanchion, Stanza, State, n., Statute, Stead, Steed, Stool, Stud of horses, Substance, System.]
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To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position; as:
To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc. ``I pray you all, stand up!''
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To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation.
It stands as it were to the ground yglued.
--Chaucer.The ruined wall Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.
--Byron.
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To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine.
Wite ye not where there stands a little town?
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To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.
I charge thee, stand, And tell thy name.
--Dryden.The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
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To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources.
My mind on its own center stands unmoved.
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To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
Readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall.
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To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition. ``The standing pattern of their imitation.''
--South.The king granted the Jews . . . to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.
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To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.
We must labor so as to stand with godliness, according to his appointment.
--Latimer. To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist. ``Sacrifices . . . which stood only in meats and drinks.''
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Accomplish what your signs foreshow; I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
--Dryden.Thou seest how it stands with me, and that I may not tarry.
--Sir W. Scott.10. To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing But what may stand with honor.
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(Naut.) To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor.
From the same parts of heaven his navy stands.
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To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate.
He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.
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To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless.
Or the black water of Pomptina stands.
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To measure when erect on the feet.
Six feet two, as I think, he stands.
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(Law)
To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide.
--Bouvier.To appear in court.
--Burrill.
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(Card Playing) To be, or signify that one is, willing to play with one's hand as dealt. Stand by (Naut.), a preparatory order, equivalent to Be ready. To stand against, to oppose; to resist. To stand by.
To be near; to be a spectator; to be present.
To be aside; to be set aside with disregard. ``In the interim [we] let the commands stand by neglected.''
--Dr. H. More.To maintain; to defend; to support; not to desert; as, to stand by one's principles or party.
To rest on for support; to be supported by.
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To remain as a spectator, and take no part in an action; as, we can't just stand idly by while people are being killed. To stand corrected, to be set right, as after an error in a statement of fact; to admit having been in error. --Wycherley. To stand fast, to be fixed; to be unshaken or immovable. To stand firmly on, to be satisfied or convinced of. ``Though Page be a secure fool, and stands so firmly on his wife's frailty.'' --Shak. To stand for.
To side with; to espouse the cause of; to support; to maintain, or to profess or attempt to maintain; to defend. ``I stand wholly for you.''
--Shak.To be in the place of; to be the substitute or representative of; to represent; as, a cipher at the left hand of a figure stands for nothing. ``I will not trouble myself, whether these names stand for the same thing, or really include one another.''
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To tolerate; as, I won't stand for any delay. To stand in, to cost. ``The same standeth them in much less cost.'' --Robynson (More's Utopia). The Punic wars could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species. --Burke. To stand in hand, to conduce to one's interest; to be serviceable or advantageous. To stand off.
To keep at a distance.
Not to comply.
To keep at a distance in friendship, social intercourse, or acquaintance.
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To appear prominent; to have relief. ``Picture is best when it standeth off, as if it were carved.'' --Sir H. Wotton. To stand off and on (Naut.), to remain near a coast by sailing toward land and then from it. To stand on (Naut.), to continue on the same tack or course. To stand out.
To project; to be prominent. ``Their eyes stand out with fatness.''
--Psalm lxxiii. 7.-
To persist in opposition or resistance; not to yield or comply; not to give way or recede. His spirit is come in, That so stood out against the holy church. --Shak. To stand to.
To ply; to urge; to persevere in using. ``Stand to your tackles, mates, and stretch your oars.''
--Dryden.To remain fixed in a purpose or opinion. ``I will stand to it, that this is his sense.''
--Bp. Stillingfleet.
To abide by; to adhere to; as to a contract, assertion, promise, etc.; as, to stand to an award; to stand to one's word.
Not to yield; not to fly; to maintain, as one's ground. ``Their lives and fortunes were put in safety, whether they stood to it or ran away.''
--Bacon.
To be consistent with; to agree with; as, it stands to reason that he could not have done so; same as stand with, below .
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To support; to uphold. ``Stand to me in this cause.'' --Shak. To stand together, to be consistent; to agree. To stand to reason to be reasonable; to be expected. To stand to sea (Naut.), to direct the course from land. To stand under, to undergo; to withstand. --Shak. To stand up.
To rise from sitting; to be on the feet.
To arise in order to speak or act. ``Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed.''
--Acts xxv. 18.To rise and stand on end, as the hair.
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To put one's self in opposition; to contend. ``Once we stood up about the corn.'' --Shak. To stand up for, to defend; to justify; to support, or attempt to support; as, to stand up for the administration. To stand upon.
To concern; to interest.
To value; to esteem. ``We highly esteem and stand much upon our birth.''
--Ray.To insist on; to attach much importance to; as, to stand upon security; to stand upon ceremony.
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To attack; to assault. [A Hebraism] ``So I stood upon him, and slew him.''
--2 Sam. i. 10.To stand with, to be consistent with. ``It stands with reason that they should be rewarded liberally.''
--Sir J. Davies.
Standing \Stand"ing\, a.
Remaining erect; not cut down; as, standing corn.
Not flowing; stagnant; as, standing water.
Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting; as, a standing color.
Established by law, custom, or the like; settled; continually existing; permanent; not temporary; as, a standing army; legislative bodies have standing rules of proceeding and standing committees.
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Not movable; fixed; as, a standing bed (distinguished from a trundle-bed). Standing army. See Standing army, under Army. Standing bolt. See Stud bolt, under Stud, a stem. Standing committee, in legislative bodies, etc., a committee appointed for the consideration of all subjects of a particular class which shall arise during the session or a stated period. Standing cup, a tall goblet, with a foot and a cover. Standing finish (Arch.), that part of the interior fittings, esp. of a dwelling house, which is permanent and fixed in its place, as distinguished from doors, sashes, etc. Standing order
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(Eccl.), the denomination (Congregational) established by law; -- a term formerly used in Connecticut. See also under Order. (a) (Com.) an order for goods which are to be delivered periodically, without the need for renewal of the order before each delivery.
Standing part. (Naut.) (a) That part of a tackle which is made fast to a block, point, or other object.
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That part of a rope around which turns are taken with the running part in making a knot or the like.
Standing rigging (Naut.), the cordage or ropes which sustain the masts and remain fixed in their position, as the shrouds and stays, -- distinguished from running rigging.
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Standing \Stand"ing\, n.
The act of stopping, or coming to a stand; the state of being erect upon the feet; stand.
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Maintenance of position; duration; duration or existence in the same place or condition; continuance; as, a custom of long standing; an officer of long standing.
An ancient thing of long standing.
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Place to stand in; station; stand.
I will provide you a good standing to see his entry.
--Bacon.I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing.
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Condition in society; relative position; reputation; rank; as, a man of good standing, or of high standing.
Standing off (Naut.), sailing from the land.
Standing on (Naut.), sailing toward land.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., verbal noun from stand (v.). In the sense of "rank, status," it is first recorded 1570s. Sense of "state of having existed for some time" is 1650s. Legal sense is first recorded 1924. Sports sense is from 1881. To be in good standing is from 1789. Standing room is from 1788.\n\nA young gentleman attempting to get into Drury-lane play-house, found there was such a croud of people that there was no room. Just without the door, a damsel of the town accosted him with 'can't you get in, sir?' to which he replied in the negative. 'If you'll go along with me, resumed she you may get in very easily, for I can furnish you with very good standing room.'
["The Banquet of Wit, or A Feast for the Polite World," London, 1790]
late 14c., "at rest, motionless," also "permanent, not transient," present participle adjective from stand (v.). Meaning "having an erect position, upright" is from 1570s; that of "done while standing" is from 1630s. The sense in standing army (c.1600) is "permanent." Standing ovation is from 1902.
Wiktionary
1 erect, not cut down. 2 Performed from an erect position. 3 remaining in force or status. 4 stagnant; not moving or flowing. 5 Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting. 6 Not movable; fixed. n. 1 position or reputation in society or a profession. 2 duration. 3 The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands. 4 (context sports English) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list. 5 (context British English) room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles 6 (context legal English) The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates. v
(present participle of stand English); in the process of coming to an upright position.
WordNet
n. social or financial or professional status or reputation; "of equal standing"; "a member in good standing"
the act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position
adj. having a supporting base; "a standing lamp" [syn: standing(a)]
(of fluids) not moving or flowing; "mosquitoes breed in standing water" [syn: standing(a)] [ant: running(a)]
not created for a particular occasion; "a standing committee" [syn: standing(a)]
maintaining an erect position; "standing timber"; "many buildings were still standing" [syn: upright] [ant: falling]
executed in or initiated from a standing position; "a standing ovation"; "race from a standing start"; "a standing jump"; "a standing ovation" [syn: standing(a)] [ant: running(a)]
(of persons) on the feet; having the torso in an erect position supported by straight legs; "standing room only"; "a standing ovation" [ant: seated]
permanent; "a standing army"
not cut down; "standing timber"; "uncut trees" [syn: uncut]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Standing is a human position in which the body is held upright.
Standing may also refer to:
Law and legal concepts- Standing (law)
- Third-party standing
- Standing (surname)
- Social standing
In law, standing or locus standi is the term for the ability of a party to demonstrate to the court sufficient connection to and harm from the law or action challenged to support that party's participation in the case. Standing exists from one of three causes:
- The party is directly subject to an adverse effect by the statute or action in question, and the harm suffered will continue unless the court grants relief in the form of damages or a finding that the law either does not apply to the party or that the law is void or can be nullified. This is called the "something to lose" doctrine, in which the party has standing because they directly will be harmed by the conditions for which they are asking the court for relief.
- The party is not directly harmed by the conditions by which they are petitioning the court for relief but asks for it because the harm involved has some reasonable relation to their situation, and the continued existence of the harm may affect others who might not be able to ask a court for relief. In the United States, this is the grounds for asking for a law to be struck down as violating the First Amendment, because while the plaintiff might not be directly affected, the law might so adversely affect others that one might never know what was not done or created by those who fear they would become subject to the law – the so-called " chilling effects" doctrine.
- The party is granted automatic standing by act of law. Under some environmental laws in the United States, a party may sue someone causing pollution to certain waterways without a federal permit, even if the party suing is not harmed by the pollution being generated. The law allows them to receive attorney's fees if they substantially prevail in the action. In some U.S. states, a person who believes a book, film or other work of art is obscene may sue in their own name to have the work banned directly without having to ask a District Attorney to do so.
In the United States, the current doctrine is that a person cannot bring a suit challenging the constitutionality of a law unless the plaintiff can demonstrate that he/she/it is or will "imminently" be harmed by the law. Otherwise, the court will rule that the plaintiff "lacks standing" to bring the suit, and will dismiss the case without considering the merits of the claim of unconstitutionality. To have a court declare a law unconstitutional, there must be a valid reason for the lawsuit. The party suing must have something to lose in order to sue unless it has automatic standing by action of law.
Standing, also referred to as orthostasis, is a human position in which the body is held in an upright ("orthostatic") position and supported only by the feet.
Although seemingly static,the body rocks slightly back and forth from the ankle in the sagittal plane. The sway of quiet standing is often likened to the motion of an inverted pendulum.
Standing at attention is a military standing posture, as is stand at ease, but these terms are also used in military-style organisations and in some professions which involve standing, such as modeling. At Ease refers to the classic military position of standing with legs slightly apart, not in as formal or regimented a pose as standing at attention. In modeling, model at ease refers to the model standing with one leg straight, with the majority of the weight on it, and the other leg tucked over and slightly around.
Standing is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Colin Standing, Welsh rugby league player
- David Standing (born 1963), English cricketer
- George Standing (born 1941), Canadian ice hockey player
- Guy Standing (1873–1937), English actor
- Herbert Standing (1846–1923), English actor
- Herbert F. Standing, paleontologist and missionary
- Jack Standing (1886–1917), English actor
- Joan Standing (1903–1979), English actress
- John Standing (born 1934), English actor
- Joseph Standing (1854–1879), American Mormon missionary
- Michael Standing (actor) (born 1939), English actor
- Michael Standing (footballer) (born 1981), English footballer
- Percy Standing (1882–1950), English actor
- Richard Standing, English actor
- Wyndham Standing (1880–1963), English actor
Usage examples of "standing".
There were several women delegates and Ken made the most of their ablutions until he was distracted by the appearance of Karanja in a neat grey suit, an ingratiating grin on his face and his big ears standing out like sails.
Suddenly, it was as if a window in heaven had been opened and I saw a group of Aboriginal women standing together.
You were asleep, or at least I thought you were, then suddenly, I saw you standing with a group of Aboriginal women.
The enlarged flyby surveillance photograph hanging on the wall showed in grainy black and white the cabin and its grounds, including the wide, elevated back porch on which Glenn Abies could be seen standing, small but unmistakable, giving the helicopter the finger.
Banish was standing across the barn, near where the Abies girl had been found.
Banish came closer until he was standing right in front of Abies, the muzzle of the .
Other officers were standing by radar and radar altimeter, NST transceiver, drift indicator, accelerometer, and all the rest of it.
He was standing at the embrasure instead, looking out over his city much as I myself had looked out at it from the ramparts of Acies Castle earlier that afternoon.
Adams with an animosity not diminished by the lapse of years since his defection from their party, strong in a consciousness of their own standing before their fellow citizens, the thirteen notables responded with much acrimony to Mr.
It landed almost at the feet of an old woman standing actionless at the veranda rail, only to dart off again immediately.
Airthrey Castle, standing in a fine park with a lake, adjoins the town on the south-east, and just beyond it are the old church and burying-ground of Logie, beautifully situated at the foot of a granite spur of the Ochil range.
He left them standing there and went down the hallway, where the last of the admin office employees were leaving for the day.
It was as if he could see Ado and the others standing there in the flickering torchlight, grim spectres at the feast that no amount of alcohol or take would erase.
Standing naked before the horned altar, Aganippe struggled to stay awake, murmuring prayers she had recited since girlhood, while they painted her body with yellow ochre-- the earth color.
Standing up abruptly, he tumbled a startled Noel off his lap, catching her and setting her on her feet before she landed in aheap on the floor.