English Dictionary

stand

IPA（発音記号）

/stænd/

名詞

歴史的 アメリカ英語 古風 略語 別表記 廃用

The act of standing. / A defensive position or effort. / A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.

日本語の意味

立っているという状態やその行為 / 防御的な姿勢や、防御のための試み / 断固として揺るがない立場、強固な意見、反対に対抗する積極的な態度や行動

After a long stand waiting for the bus, his legs were numb.

バスを待って長時間立ちっぱなしだったため、彼の脚はしびれていた。

意味（1）

The act of standing.

I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings.

意味（2）

A defensive position or effort.

The Commander says we will make our stand here.

意味（3）

A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.

They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.

意味（4）

A period of performance in a given location or venue.

They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees. They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.

意味（5）

A device to hold something upright or aloft.

He set the music upon the stand and began to play. an umbrella stand; a hat-stand

意味（6）

The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.

She took the stand and quietly answered questions.

意味（7）

(historical) An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.

When a member has failed to comply with his bargains the fact is announced from one of the stands, […]

意味（8）

A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.

This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.

意味（9）

(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.

意味（10）

A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.

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.

意味（11）

A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.

意味（12）

A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.

a taxi stand

意味（13）

(US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.

a good, bad, or convenient stand for business

意味（14）

(US, historical) Short for tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).

意味（15）

(sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural)

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.

意味（16）

(cricket) A partnership.

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.

意味（17）

(military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.

The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.

意味（18）

(obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.

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

意味（19）

(dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.

to be at a stand what to do

意味（20）

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.

意味（21）

A location or position where one may stand.

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

意味（22）

(advertising) An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.

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.

意味（23）

(fiction) A type of supernatural ability from the anime and manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, named for the fact that they appear to 'stand' next to their user.

stands （ plural ）