Etimology
From Middle English standen, stonden (verb) and stand, stond (noun, from the verb), from Old English standan (“to stand, occupy a place”), from Proto-West Germanic *standan, from Proto-Germanic *standaną (“to stand”), from Pre-Germanic *sth₂-n-t-´, an innovative extended n-infixed form of Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.
verb
stand (third-person singular simple present stands, present participle standing, simple past stood, past participle stood or (obsolete) standen or (nonstandard) stand)
To position or be positioned physically:
To position or be positioned mentally:
To position or be positioned socially:
(intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
(intransitive, 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.
Examples
Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
At one time a "standard test" for carriage riding was to stand a pencil on end on the compartment floor, or to measure how long it was possible to stand on one leg without touching the corridor walls; […]
Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.
Do not leave your car standing in the road.
The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.
He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom […]
He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
At one time a "standard test" for carriage riding was to stand a pencil on end on the compartment floor, or to measure how long it was possible to stand on one leg without touching the corridor walls; [...].
Paris stands on the Seine.
The chapel ſtands on the South ſide of the ſquare, near the governor’s houſe.
Las Vegas police say the number of people injured now stands at 515.
His face, as I grant, in spite of spite / Has a broad-blown comeliness, red and white, / And six feet two, as I think, he stands; […]
many an orphan’s water-standing eye
now my heart beginneth to melt within me being wounded to see the faces of some here present, whom J most earnestly love, and now must depart from with shame […]
[He] pull’d me up again, and then giving me tvvo or three Kiſſes again, thank’d me for my kind yielding to him; and vvas ſo overcome with the Satisfaction and Joy of it, that I savv Tears ſtand in his Eyes.
He takes me half-price to the play, to an extent which I sometimes fear is beyond his means; and I see the tears a standing in his eyes during the whole performance […]
How he escaped a broken neck in that dreadful place no human being will ever ken. The sweat, he has told me, stood in cold drops upon his forehead […]
He stands to get a good price for the house.
I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.
I can’t stand him.
[I]f you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.
[R]eaders by whose judgment I would stand or fall […]The spelling has been modernized.
The spelling has been modernized.
The king granted the Jews […] to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.
the standing pattern of their imitationThe spelling has been modernized.
The spelling has been modernized.
sacrifices […] which stood only in meats and drinks
Accomplish what your signs foreshow; / I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
Thou seest how it stands with me […], and that I may not tarry.
The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.
Love stood the siege.
Bid him disband his legions, […] / And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.
That not for Fame, but Virtue's better end, / He ſtood the furious Foe, the timid Friend, […]
He is standing for election to the local council.
He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.
What I said yesterday still stands.
"Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. / "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron.
The game stopped while sides were sorted out. Andy did the sorting. "Okay," he said. "Jimmy is coming out. He and Gaston and Ike and me will stand you guys."
"Hey, Louis," Dameon shouted. "Do you want to play kickball?" ¶ ""All right," said Louis. "Ron and I will both play." […] "Ron and I will stand everybody!" Louis announced.
to stand a round of drinks
to stand a treat
to stand bail
I will either stand a glass of grog, or thou shalt pay the like for me, my lad
Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
President Obama gave his first extended television interview since the protests in Libya and Egypt to Telemundo on Wednesday night, and he took the opportunity to explain the U.S.'s role in the developing world while clarifying where the country stands with Egypt right now.
Doubt me not, by Heauen, I vvill doe nothing / But vvhat may ſtand vvith honour: […]
To repaire his defects, hee stood for the coast of Calabria, but hearing there was six or seven Galleyes at Mesina hee departed thence for Malta […].
The ruin'd wall / Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.
noun
stand (plural stands)
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.
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.
(US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
(US, historical) Short for tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).
(sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural)
(cricket) A partnership.
(military, 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.
(Can we verify(+) this sense?) (fiction) A type of psychically created being in the anime and manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, named for the fact that they appear to 'stand' next to their user.
Examples
I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings.
The Commander says we will make our stand here.
They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.
They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees. They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.
He set the music upon the stand and began to play. an umbrella stand; a hat-stand
There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
She took the stand and quietly answered questions.
Shortly after Ellison started at Alameda around fall 2018 as a trader, she learned that the company was financially far sicker than she had known, she said on the stand.
When a member has failed to comply with his bargains the fact is announced from one of the stands, […]
Just as that clock is striking now, the two waiters appear on the stands and take off their hats, as if to a corpse.
This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.
Pernambuco is a coastal wood which grows in maintained stands in Brazil.
One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is at a stand, to think what should be in it, that men should love lies; where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie’s sake.
Antonia's patience now was at a stand— "Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there," She whispered […]
a taxi stand
a good, bad, or convenient stand for business
The end of the opening period was relatively quite [sic] as Vassiljev's desperate shot from well outside the penalty area flew into the stand housing the Irish supporters and then Ward's ctoss [sic] was gathered by goalkeeper Pareiko.
England wrapped up a five-wicket victory in the first Test as a stand of 132 between Alastair Cook and Ian Bell saw off an early West Indies charge.
The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.
Father, since your fortune did attain / So high a stand, I mean not to descend.
to be at a stand what to do
Come, I have found you out a stand most fit, / Where you may have such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass you.
The cost of the printing alone will average $2 a 'stand.' The sheets are about 28x42 inches and are in four colors, which means they must go through the process four times.
Crew of 14 billers and a four-man brigade will be 10 days ahead and will use all special paper including new jungle and animal designs being prepared by Enquirer Printing Company.New this season will be a 20-sheet poster depicting 21 K-M elephants parading to local Chevrolet agencies. Deal calls for use of the 20-sheet on poster panels where the auto agency has space allotment. Smaller versions of the same art also will be used.Circulation of Kelly-Miller heralds, which last season averaged between 5,000 and 6,000 copies per stand, will be in for one of the greatest boosts this year.
Etimology
From Middle English stand, stande, stond, stonde, stoonde, probably from Middle Dutch stande, from Old Dutch *standan (“to stand”), from Frankish *standan. Forms with -o- may show influence of stonden (“stand”, verb).
noun
stand (plural stands)
(US, Scotland, 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.
Examples
Item, for a ſtande of small ale - ii s.
[…] one gialfatte, 3 stannes 3s., […]
Therefore at length sir Iefferie bethought him of a feat whereby he might both visit the alestond, and also keepe his othe.
Memp. Ile teach my wag-halter to know grapes from barley. Pris. And I mine to discerne a spigot from a faucet. Spe. And I mine, to iudge the difference between a blacke boule and a siluer goblet. Stel. And mine shall learne the oddes betweene a stand and a hogs-head; yet I cannot choose but laugh to see how my wag aunswered mee, when I stroke him for drinking sacke.
As for the Tapſter, he fled into the Cellar, rapping out fiue or ſixe plaine Country oathes, that hée would drowne himſelfe in a moſt villanous Stand of Ale, if the ſicke Londoner ſtoode at the doore any longer.
I have the rareſt Stand of Ale to drink out in the Afternoon, with three or four honeſt Country-fellows;
[…] that he may have leave to meet ſome few Neighbours to duſt a ſtand of Ale […]
All his war ſtore of proviſions conſiſted in three ſtands of barbicued veniſon, till he had an opportunity to revenge blood, and return home.
First dip me in a stand o milk, / And then a stand o water;