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Booth (noun)
A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
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Booth (noun)
An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person.
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Booth (noun)
An enclosed table with seats, as in a diner or café.
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Booth (noun)
An enclosure for keeping animals.
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Stand (verb)
To position or be positioned physically.
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Stand (verb)
To feet in an erect position.
“Here I stand, wondering what to do next.”
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Stand (verb)
To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
“Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.”
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Stand (verb)
To remain motionless.
“Do not leave your car standing in the road.”
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Stand (verb)
To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
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Stand (verb)
To place in an upright or standing position.
“He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.”
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Stand (verb)
To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
“Paris stands on the Seine.”
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Stand (verb)
To measure when erect on the feet.
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Stand (verb)
To position or be positioned mentally.
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Stand (verb)
(of tears) To be welled up (in the eyes).
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Stand (verb)
To be positioned to gain or lose.
“He stands to get a good price for the house.”
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Stand (verb)
To tolerate.
“I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.”
“I can’t stand him.”
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Stand (verb)
To maintain one’s ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
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Stand (verb)
To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
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Stand (verb)
To position or be positioned socially.
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Stand (verb)
To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
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Stand (verb)
To act as an umpire.
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Stand (verb)
To undergo; withstand; hold up.
“The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.”
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Stand (verb)
To seek election.
“He is standing for election to the local council.”
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Stand (verb)
To be valid.
“What I said yesterday still stands.”
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Stand (verb)
To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
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Stand (verb)
To cover the expense of; to pay for.
“to stand a treat”
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Stand (verb)
To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
“Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.”
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Stand (verb)
To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
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Stand (verb)
Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
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Stand (verb)
To remain without ruin or injury.
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Stand (verb)
To stop asking for more cards; to keep one’s hand as it has been dealt so far.
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Stand (noun)
The act of standing.
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Stand (noun)
A defensive position or effort.
“The Commander says we will make our stand here.”
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Stand (noun)
A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
“They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.”
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Stand (noun)
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.”
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Stand (noun)
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”
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Stand (noun)
The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
“She took the stand and quietly answered questions.”
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Stand (noun)
A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
“This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.”
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Stand (noun)
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.
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Stand (noun)
A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
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Stand (noun)
A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
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Stand (noun)
A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
“a taxi stand”
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Stand (noun)
The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
“a good, bad, or convenient stand for business”
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Stand (noun)
Grandstand. often in the plural
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Stand (noun)
A partnership.
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Stand (noun)
A single set, as of arms.
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Stand (noun)
Rank; post; station; standing.
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Stand (noun)
A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
“to be at a stand what to do”
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Stand (noun)
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.
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Stand (noun)
A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
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Stand (noun)
A location or position where one may stand.