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Stand can be a verb or a noun.
stand used as a verb:
- To be upright, support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
"Here I stand, wondering what to do next." - To rise to one's feet; to stand up.
"Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack." - To remain motionless.
"Do not leave your car standing in the road." - To act as an umpire.
- To undergo; withstand; hold up.
"The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time." - To tolerate.
"I can't stand when people don't read the instructions." - To place in an upright or standing position.
"He stood the broom in a corner and took a break." - To seek election
"He is standing for election to the local council"
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
stand used as a noun:
- A defensive position or effort.
- A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
"They took a firm stand against copyright infringement." - A period of performance in a given location or venue.
"They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees." - A device to hold something upright or aloft.
"He set the music upon the stand and began to play." - The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
"She took the stand and quietly answered questions." - A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
"This stand of pines is older than the one next to it." - (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 small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait: taxi stand.
- grandstand
- A partnership.
- A single set, as of arms.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is stand?
- Verb usage: Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
- Verb usage: Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.
- Verb usage: Do not leave your car standing in the road.
- Verb usage: The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.
- Verb usage: I can't stand when people don't read the instructions.
- Verb usage: I can't stand her.
- Verb usage: He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
- Verb usage: He is standing for election to the local council
- Noun usage: They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.
- Noun usage: They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees.
- Noun usage: They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.
- Noun usage: He set the music upon the stand and began to play.
- Noun usage: She took the stand and quietly answered questions.
- Noun usage: This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of stand are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of stand, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
