Definition of stand

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Stand (n.) 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..

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Footing :: Footing (n.) Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
Resist :: Resist (v. t.) To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
On :: On (prep.) At, or in contact with, the surface or upper part of a thing, and supported by it; placed or lying in contact with the surface; as, the book lies on the table, which stands on the floor of a house on an island..
Criterion :: Criterion (n.) A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them..
Intricate :: Intricate (a.) Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc..
Prime :: Prime (a.) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; -- so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
Insistent :: Insistent (a.) Standing or resting on something; as, an insistent wall..
Consistency :: Consistency (n.) The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity..
Sign :: Sign (n.) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard.
Metric :: Metric (a.) Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement..
Ampere :: Ampere (n.) The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampere..
Understood :: Understood () imp. & p. p. of Understand.
Loose :: Loose (superl.) Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
Xerophilous :: Xerophilous (a.) Drought-loving; able withstand the absence or lack of moisture.
Stander-by :: Stander (n.) Same as Standel.
Stand :: Stand (v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the cold or the heat..
Standard :: Standard (n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority.
Cognitive :: Cognitive (a.) Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power..
Series :: Series (n.) A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events..
Waterman :: Waterman (n.) An attendant on cab stands, etc., who supplies water to the horses..
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