stand
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 →
2) To stand up is to get onto your feet. tree →
3) To stand is to be in a place: the house stands on a hill. tree →
4) A stand is a small stall that sells things, like a lemonade stand. tree →
5) A stand is a holder for something: a music stand, a bike stand. tree →
6) Can't stand means strongly dislike. tree →
7) To stand for means to mean: «km» stands for kilometer. tree →
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 →
- 12 people stand in line. tree →
- The fruit stand has 60 apples. tree →
- How much did the stand earn? tree →
- Please stand up when the bell rings. tree →
- In algebra, x stands for an unknown number. tree →
- Stand up for a friend who is being picked on. tree →
- I can't stand the smell of burnt toast. tree →
- The boy stood firm and still. tree →
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.
- A picket line is striking workers standing outside their workplace with signs, peacefully asking others not to go in.
- Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long wooden box covered in flowers, the coffin.
- Teachers know how their pupils usually write, so a sudden fancy style stands out.
- Behind many AI news stories stand real people with real worries: translators, artists, writers and parents.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «stand» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.