Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 148

Stand (v. i.) 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 y-glued. -- Chaucer.

The ruined wall Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone. -- Byron.

Stand (v. i.) 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? -- Chaucer.

Stand (v. i.) 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. -- Matt. ii. 9.

Stand (v. i.) 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. -- Dryden.

Stand (v. i.) 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. -- Spectator.

Stand (v. i.) 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. -- Esther viii. 11.

Stand (v. i.) 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.

Stand (v. i.) 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.

Stand (v. i.) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist. "Sacrifices . . . which stood only in meats and drinks." -- Heb. ix. 10.

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.

Stand (v. i.) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.

Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing But what may stand with honor. -- Massinger.

Stand (v. i.) (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. -- Dryden.

Stand (v. i.) To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate.

He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university. -- Walton.

Stand (v. i.) To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless.

Or the black water of Pomptina stands. -- Dryden.

Stand (v. i.) To measure when erect on the feet.

Six feet two, as I think, he stands. -- Tennyson.

Stand (v. i.) (Law) To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide. -- Bouvier.

Stand (v. i.) (Law) To appear in court. -- Burrill.

Stand (v. i.) (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.

(a) To be near; to be a spectator; to be present.

(b) To be aside; to be set aside with disregard. "In the interim [we] let the commands stand by neglected." -- Dr. H. More.

(d) To rest on for support; to be supported by. -- Whitgift.

(e) 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.

(a) 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.

(b) 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." -- Locke.

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.

(a) To keep at a distance.

(b) Not to comply.

(d) 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.

(a) To project; to be prominent. "Their eyes stand out with fatness." -- Psalm lxxiii. 7.

(b) 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.

(a) To ply; to urge; to persevere in using. "Stand to your tackles, mates, and stretch your oars." -- Dryden.

(b) To remain fixed in a purpose or opinion. "I will stand to it, that this is his sense." -- Bp Stillingfleet.

(c) 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.

(d) 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.

(e) To be consistent with; to agree with; as, it stands to reason that he could not have done so; same as stand with, below .

(f) 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.

(a) To rise from sitting; to be on the feet.

(b) 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.

(d) 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.

(a) To concern; to interest.

(b) To value; to esteem. "We highly esteem and stand much upon our birth." -- Ray.

(d) 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.

Stand (n.) The act of standing.

I took my stand upon an eminence . . . to look into their several ladings. -- Spectator.

Stand (n.) A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand.

Vice is at stand, and at the highest flow. -- Dryden.

Stand (n.) A place or post where one stands; a place where one may stand while observing or waiting for something.

I have found you out a stand most fit, Where you may have such vantage on the duke, He shall not pass you. -- Shak.

Stand (n.) A station in a city or town where carriages or wagons stand for hire; as, a cab stand. -- Dickens.

Stand (n.) A raised platform or station where a race or other outdoor spectacle may be viewed; as, the judge's or the grand stand at a race course.

Stand (n.) A small table; also, something on or in which anything may be laid, hung, or placed upright; as, a hat stand; an umbrella stand; a music stand.

Stand (n.) A place where a witness stands to testify in court.

Stand (n.) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business. [U. S.]

Stand (n.) Rank; post; station; standing.

Father, since your fortune did attain So high a stand, I mean not to descend. -- Daniel.

Stand (n.) A state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do. -- L'Estrange.

Stand (n.) 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.

Stand (n.) (Com.) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, -- used in weighing pitch.

Microscope stand, The instrument, excepting the eyepiece, objective, and other removable optical parts.

Stand of ammunition, The projectile, cartridge, and sabot connected together.

Stand of arms. (Mil.) See under Arms.

Stand of colors (Mil.), A single color, or flag. -- Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.)

To be at a stand, To be stationary or motionless; to be at a standstill; hence, to be perplexed; to be embarrassed.

To make a stand, To halt for the purpose of offering resistance to a pursuing enemy.

Syn: Stop; halt; rest; interruption; obstruction; perplexity; difficulty; embarrassment; hesitation.

Stand (v. t.) 使站立；使站起 [O]；豎放；（常用於否定句或疑問句）忍受， [W] [+v-ing] [O4] [+to-v] To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the cold or the heat.

Stand (v. t.) To resist, without yielding or receding; to withstand.

"Love stood the siege." -- Dryden.

He stood the furious foe. -- Pope.

Stand (v. t.) To abide by; to submit to; to suffer.

Bid him disband his legions, . . . And stand the judgment of a Roman senate. -- Addison.

Stand (v. t.) To set upright; to cause to stand; as, to stand a book on the shelf; to stand a man on his feet.

Stand (v. t.) To be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to stand a treat. [Colloq.] -- Thackeray.

To stand fire, To receive the fire of arms from an enemy without giving way.

To stand one's ground, To keep the ground or station one has taken; to maintain one's position. "Peasants and burghers, however brave, are unable to stand their ground against veteran soldiers." -- Macaulay.

To stand trial, To sustain the trial or examination of a cause; not to give up without trial.

Stand (n.) 台，看臺；立場；停止；抵抗 A support or foundation; "the base of the lamp" [syn: base, pedestal, stand].

Stand (n.) The position where a thing or person stands.

Stand (n.) A growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area; "they cut down a stand of trees".

Stand (n.) A small table for holding articles of various kinds; "a bedside stand".

Stand (n.) A support for displaying various articles; "the newspapers were arranged on a rack" [syn: rack, stand].

Stand (n.) An interruption of normal activity [syn: stand, standstill, tie-up].

Stand (n.) A mental position from which things are viewed; "we should consider this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians"; "teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events" [syn: point of view, viewpoint, stand, standpoint].

Stand (n.) A booth where articles are displayed for sale [syn: stall, stand, sales booth].

Stand (n.) A stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance; "a one-night stand".

Stand (n.) Tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade).

Stand (n.) A platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air [syn: bandstand, outdoor stage, stand].

Stand (n.) A defensive effort; "the army made a final stand at the Rhone".

Stand (v.) Be standing; be upright; "We had to stand for the entire performance!" [syn: stand, stand up] [ant: lie, sit, sit down].

Stand (v.) Be in some specified state or condition; "I stand corrected".

Stand (v.) Occupy a place or location, also metaphorically; "We stand on common ground".

Stand (v.) Hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright; "I am standing my ground and won't give in!" [syn: stand, remain firm] [ant: relent, soften, yield].

Stand (v.) Put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "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" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up].

Stand (v.) Have or maintain a position or stand on an issue; "Where do you stand on the War?".

Stand (v.) Remain inactive or immobile; "standing water".

Stand (v.) Be in effect; be or remain in force; "The law stands!".

Stand (v.) Be tall; have a height of; copula; "She stands 6 feet tall".

Stand (v.) put into an upright position; "Can you stand the bookshelf up?" [syn: stand, stand up, place upright].

Stand (v.) Withstand the force of something; "The trees resisted her"; "stand the test of time"; "The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow" [syn: resist, stand, fend].

Stand (v.) Be available for stud services; "male domestic animals such as stallions serve selected females".

Standage (n.) A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.

Stand-alone (a.) 【電腦】獨立的；獨立經營（或活動）；獨立自足的 (Especially of a computer) A ble to be operated on its own without being connected to a larger system.

Compare: Sheth

Sheth (n.) The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called standard, or post.

Sheth

Tumult. (1.) "The children of Sheth" (Num. 24:17); R.V., "the sons of tumult," which is probably the correct rendering, as there is no evidence that this is a proper name here.

(2.) The antediluvian patriarch (1 Chr. 1:1).

Standard (a.) 標準的，模范的，規范化的；公認為優秀的，權威的；合格的，普通的，一般的；裝支柱的；不依附他物生長的 Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.

Standard (a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.

Standard (a.) (Hort.) Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees.

Standard (a.) (Hort.) Not of the dwarf kind; as, a standard pear tree.

Standard candle, Standard gauge. See under Candle, and Gauge.

Standard solution. (Chem.) See Standardized solution, under Solution.

Standard (n.) 標準，水準，規格，模范；旗；軍旗，隊旗；【徽章】標幟，標記；旗標，象征；【植物；植物學】旗瓣；金 [銀] 的純度標準；(硬幣的)法定純度比例；(作為貨幣價值標準的)本位；(度量衡的)原基；原器；〔英國〕(小學的)學年，年級；直立支柱；燈臺；燭臺，電桿，垂直的水管(電管)；【林業】中年木〔胸徑1-2英尺〕；保殘木，第一代上木；【園藝】直立式整枝，嫁接于樹干上的灌木；高腳杯，大杯 A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other.

His armies, in the following day, On those fair plains their standards proud display. -- Fairfax.

Standard (n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard.

Standard (n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test.

The court, which used to be the standard of propriety and correctness of speech. -- Swift.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. -- Burke.

Standard (n.) (Coinage) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority.

By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. -- Arbuthnot.

Standard (n.) (Hort.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.

In France part of their gardens is laid out for flowers, others for fruits; some standards, some against walls. -- Sir W. Temple.

Standard (n.) (Bot.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.

Standard (n.) (Mech. & Carp.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.

Standard (n.) (Shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.

Standard (n.) The sheth of a plow.

Standard (n.) A large drinking cup. -- Greene.

Standard bearer, An officer of an army, company, or troop, who bears a standard; -- commonly called color sergeantor color bearer; hence, the leader of any organization; as, the standard bearer of a political party.

Standard-bred (a.) Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders.

Standardize (v. t.) To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.

Standard-wing (n.) A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.

Stand-by (n.) One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant use or in an emergency.

Standel (n.) A young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut.

Stander (n.) One who stands.

Stander (n.) Same as Standel.

Stander-by (n.) One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander.

Standergrass (n.) A plant (Orchis mascula); -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long.

Standgale (n.) See Stannel.

Standing (a.) Remaining erect; not cut down; as, standing corn.

Standing (a.) Not flowing; stagnant; as, standing water.

Standing (a.) Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting; as, a standing color.

Standing (a.) 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.

Standing (a.) Not movable; fixed; as, a standing bed (distinguished from a trundle-bed).

Standing (n.) The act of stopping, or coming to a stand; the state of being erect upon the feet; stand.

Standing (n.) 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.

Standing (n.) Place to stand in; station; stand.

Standing (n.) Condition in society; relative position; reputation; rank; as, a man of good standing, or of high standing.

Standish (n.) A stand, or case, for pen and ink.

Standpipe (n.) A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level at a distance.

Standpipe (n.) A supply pipe of sufficient elevation to enable the water to flow into the boiler, notwithstanding the pressure of the steam.

Standpoint (n.) A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.

Standstill (n.) 停止；停頓；停滯不前 [S] A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.

Standstill (n.) A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations" [syn: {deadlock}, {dead end}, {impasse}, {stalemate}, {standstill}].

Standstill (n.) An interruption of normal activity [syn: {stand}, {standstill}, {tie-up}].

Stane (n.) A stone.

Stang () imp. of Sting.

Stang (n.) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.

Stang (n.) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.

Stang (v. i.) To shoot with pain.

Stanhope (n.) A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.

Staniel (n.) See Stannel.

Stanielry (n.) Hawking with staniels, -- a base kind of falconry.

Stank (a.) Weak; worn out.

Stank (v. i.) To sigh.

Stank (imp.) Stunk.

Stank (n.) Water retained by an embankment; a pool water.

Stank (n.) A dam or mound to stop water.

Stannary (a.) Of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works.

Stannaries (n. pl. ) of Stannary.

Stannary (n.) A tin mine; tin works.

Stannate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of stannic acid.

Compare: Kestrel

Kestrel (n.) [See Castrel.] (Zool.) A small, slender European hawk ({Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species.

Note: This word is often used in contempt, as of a mean kind of hawk. "Kites and kestrels have a resemblance with hawks." -- Bacon

Stannel (n.) (Zool.) The kestrel; -- called also standgale, standgall, stanchel, stand hawk, stannel hawk, steingale, stonegall. [Written also staniel, stannyel, and stanyel.]

With what wing the staniel checks at it. -- Shak.

Stannic (a.) (Chem.) Of or pertaining to tin; derived from or containing tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with stannous compounds.

Stannic acid. (a) A hypothetical substance, Sn(OH)4, analogous to silicic acid, and called also normal stannic acid.

Stannic acid. (b) Metastannic acid.

Stannic chloride, A thin, colorless, fuming liquid, SnCl4, used as a mordant in calico printing and dyeing; -- formerly called spirit of tin, or fuming liquor of Libavius.

Stannic oxide, Tin oxide, SnO2, produced artificially as a white amorphous powder, and occurring naturally in the mineral cassiterite. It is used in the manufacture of white enamels, and, under the name of putty powder, for polishing glass, etc.

Stannic (a.) Of or relating to or containing tin [syn: stannic, stannous].

Stanniferous (a.) Containing or affording tin. Stannine

Stannine (n.) Alt. of Stannite.

Stannite (n.) (Min.) A mineral of a steel-gray or iron-black color; tin pyrites. It is a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron.

Stannite (n.) A dark grey mineral with a metallic luster that is a source of tin [syn: stannite, tin pyrites].

Stanno- () (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to, or connection with, tin, or including tin as an ingredient.

Stannofluoride (n.) (Chem.) Any one of a series of double fluorides of tin (stannum) and some other element.

Stannoso- (a.) (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to, or connection with, certain stannnous compounds.

Stannotype (n.) (Photog.) A photograph taken upon a tin plate; a tintype.

Stannous (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with stannic compounds.

Stannous chloride (Chem.), A white crystalline substance, SnCl2.(H2O)2, obtained by dissolving tin in hydrochloric acid. It is used as a mordant in dyeing.

Stannous (a.) Of or relating to or containing tin [syn: stannic, stannous].

Stannum (n.) (Chem.) The technical name of tin. See Tin. Stannyel

[previous page] [Index] [next page]