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# stand

«stand» in Mova's school dictionary: **to be on your feet with your body upright** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, noun (stand, stands, stood, standing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To stand is to be on your feet with your body upright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#m1)

2) To stand up is to get onto your feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#m2)

3) To stand is to be in a place: the house stands on a hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#m3)

4) A stand is a small stall that sells things, like a lemonade stand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#m4)

5) A stand is a holder for something: a music stand, a bike stand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#m5)

6) Can't stand means strongly dislike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#m6)

7) To stand for means to mean: «km» stands for kilometer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#m7)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a stall that sells (lemonade stand) with prices and money earned: money = price × cups sold; people standing in a line; letters that stand for numbers. Everyday: stand in line, stand still, stand up for someone (defend them), grandstand at a sports ground.

### examples

- Her lemonade stand sold 40 cups at 50 cents each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#x1)
- 12 people stand in line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#x2)
- The fruit stand has 60 apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#x3)
- How much did the stand earn? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#x4)
- Please stand up when the bell rings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#x5)
- In algebra, x stands for an unknown number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#x6)
- Stand up for a friend who is being picked on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#x7)
- I can't stand the smell of burnt toast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#x8)
- The boy stood firm and still. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/#x9)

### note

Irregular: stand, stood, stood. At a stand, money = price × cups sold. Trap: none. «Stand for» (mean) is a phrasal verb with no number clue.

### In the corpora

- [There are also ways workers stand up for themselves: unions, strikes, picket lines and tribunals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/4/)
- [A picket line is striking workers standing outside their workplace with signs, peacefully asking others not to go in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/14/)
- [Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long wooden box covered in flowers, the coffin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/2/)
- [Teachers know how their pupils usually write, so a sudden fancy style stands out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/8/)
- [Behind many AI news stories stand real people with real worries: translators, artists, writers and parents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/21-news-deepfakes-history/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stand» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stand/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.