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stand

 
 
pronunciation:
staend
parts of speech:
verb, noun
phrases:
can't stand
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part of speech: verb
inflections: stands, standing, stood
definition 1: When you stand, your body is or becomes straight up and you put all your weight on your feet.
When Sofia's grandmother came home from the hospital, she couldn't stand by herself. Her mom had to help her get up from her bed.Devon and Max stood in line a long time to get lunch today.
 
similar words:
erect, rise
definition 2: When something is standing, it is up straight. It has not fallen down, and nobody has taken it down.
Only two of the old trees by the lake were still standing after the big storm.A statue by a famous artist stands in front of the museum.
similar words:
grow, mount, rise, straighten
definition 3: When a house stands on a hill, it means that the hill is the location of the house.
The old shoe factory stands next to the river.
synonyms:
be, lie, sit
similar words:
place, rank
definition 4: When you stand something, you make it stand. You put it in a straight, or almost straight, position up and down.
Jen's mother stood the roses in a tall vase.The construction worker stood the ladder next to the house.
similar words:
erect, lift, place, position, put, set
definition 5: When you can stand something, you can live with it even if it is very bad. If you have pain but you can stand it, you don't cry or scream. If you can't stand the pain, you will cry and scream a lot. If you can't stand something, you try to stop it or get away from it because it is too terrible for you to live with. Sometimes when you say you can't stand something, it means that you hate it or you really don't like it.
Mr. Davis couldn't stand all the noise in the city anymore, so he finally moved to a place in the country.My aunt can't stand anything dirty. If she sees something dirty, she has to clean it right away.I can eat most vegetables but I can't stand broccoli.
synonyms:
bear, endure, take, tolerate
similar words:
brave, deal with, face, suffer, weather
definition 6: If someone asks another person where they stand about something, it means that they are asking that person's opinion about it, especially whether that person is for or against it.
The two brothers stand on opposite sides of the issue of building a new highway through the town. One brother is for it and the other brother is against it.
similar words:
declare for, defend, persist, stick to, uphold
 
part of speech: noun
definition 1: A stand is an outdoor counter or little open shop where people show things that they want to sell. Customers walk up to the stand to buy things.
Ava's dad got her a hot dog at one of the food stands at the fair.The farmer had fresh vegetables and berries for sale at his stand by the road.
 
definition 2: A stand is a table or rack for holding a certain thing.
Noah looked through the postcards on one of the stands in the souvenir shop.Each stand in the jewelry shop window showed a different beautiful necklace.
synonyms:
rack
definition 3: A stand is a raised platform.
Chairs were arranged on the stand for the orchestra.
synonyms:
platform
definition 4: A stand is an attitude or opinion that a person feels strongly about.
When Mr. Nelson takes a stand on some issue, he doesn't usually change his mind.
synonyms:
point of view, position
definition 5: When we say that a witness "takes the stand" in a court of law, we mean that they go to the special place near the judge where they will speak to everyone in the courtroom.
Two new witnesses took the stand this morning during the trial.
definition 6: When we talk about the "stands" at a stadium, we mean the areas with seats where people sit to watch the game.
We looked around the stands to see if we could find our friends.
phrase: can't stand
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