What does stand mean?
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What does stand mean? - The Free Dictionary
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stand - The Free Dictionary
(the base of the lamp)
(We had to stand for the entire performance!)
(I stand corrected)
(they cut down a stand of trees)
(We stand on common ground)
(a bedside stand)
(I am standing my ground and won't give in!)
(the newspapers were arranged on a rack)
(I cannot bear his constant criticism The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks he learned to tolerate the heat She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage)
(Where do you stand on the War?)
(we should consider this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events)
(standing water)
(The law stands!)
(a one-night stand)
(She stands 6 feet tall)
(Can you stand the bookshelf up?)
(The trees resisted her stand the test of time The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow)
(the army made a final stand at the Rhone)
(male domestic animals such as stallions serve selected females)
Other vocabulary
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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.
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