Synonyms of the word

stand

• v. (heading) To position or be positioned physically.
• v. (heading) To position or be positioned mentally.
• v. (heading) To position or be positioned socially.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified…
• v. (intransitive) To remain without ruin or injury.
• v. (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
• n. The act of standing.
• n. A defensive position or effort.
• n. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
• n. A period of performance in a given location or venue.
• n. A device to hold something upright or aloft.
• n. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
• n. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
• n. (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and…
• n. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
• n. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
• n. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
• n. (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
• n. (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural).
• n. (cricket) A partnership.
• n. (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
• n. (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.
• n. (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
• n. A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own…
• n. (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.

abide

• v. Accept, comply or act in accordance.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To wait in expectation.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To pause; to delay.
• v. (intransitive) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition;…
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To have one's abode; to dwell; to reside; to sojourn.
• v. (intransitive) To endure; to remain; to last.
• v. (transitive) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
• v. (transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
• v. (transitive) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
• v. (transitive) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
• v. (transitive) To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
• v. A component in at least one phrasal verb: abide by.

allow

• v. (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
• v. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
• v. (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
• v. To not bar or obstruct.
• v. (intransitive) To acknowledge or concede.
• v. (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
• v. (transitive) To render physically possible.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
• v. (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

bandstand

• n. A small, open-air platform or enclosure for bands to play on, usually roofed.
• n. A small, informal stage, usually located in nightclubs, where local and amateur musicians perform.

base

• n. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
• n. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
• n. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
• n. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
• n. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
• n. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
• n. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
• n. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus…
• n. Important areas in games and sports.
• n. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
• n. (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
• n. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
• n. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
• n. (geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid…
• n. (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
• n. (heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
• n. (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
• n. (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
• n. (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
• n. (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
• n. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that…
• n. (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
• n. (music) Dated form of bass.
• n. (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
• n. (archaic) The housing of a horse.
• n. (historical, in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour)…
• n. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
• n. (obsolete) An apron.
• n. A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from…
• v. (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
• v. (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
• v. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
• adj. (obsolete) Low in height; short.
• adj. Low in place or position.
• adj. (obsolete) Of low value or degree.
• adj. (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
• adj. Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
• adj. (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
• adj. Designating those metals which are not classed as precious or noble.
• adj. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
• adj. (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
• adj. Not classical or correct.
• adj. Obsolete form of bass.
• adj. (law) Not held by honourable service.
• n. (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
• acr. Alternative form of BASE.

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

bear

• n. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and…
• n. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
• n. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
• n. (slang, US) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
• n. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
• n. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
• n. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
• v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
• adj. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices…
• v. (transitive) To support or sustain; to hold up.
• v. (transitive) To carry something.
• v. (transitive) To be equipped with (something).
• v. (transitive) To wear or display.
• v. (transitive, with witness) To declare as testimony.
• v. (transitive) To put up with something.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
• v. (intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
• v. (intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
• v. (intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
• v. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To press.
• v. (trasitive, intransitive) To take effect; to have influence or force.
• v. (intransitive, usually with on or upon) To relate or refer.
• v. (transitive) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
• v. (transitive) To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
• v. (transitive) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
• v. (transitive) To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
• v. (transitive) To admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
• v. (transitive) To manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself).
• v. (transitive) To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
• n. (colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
• n. Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”).

booth

• n. A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
• n. An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person.
• n. An enclosed table with seats, as in a diner or café.

botany

• n. (uncountable) The scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve…
• n. The plant life of a geographical area.
• n. The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
• n. (countable) A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular…

brook

• v. (transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.
• v. (transitive) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract…
• n. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
• n. (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
• n. (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.

continue

• v. (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
• v. (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
• v. (transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position etc.
• v. (intransitive) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
• v. (intransitive) To resume.
• v. (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
• v. (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
• n. (video games) an option allowing a gamer to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost.
• n. (programming) a statement which causes a loop to start executing the next iteration, skipping the statements…

countenance

• n. Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.
• n. Favour; support; encouragement.
• n. (obsolete) Superficial appearance; show; pretense.
• n. calm facial expression, composure, self-control.
• v. (transitive) To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.

defence

• n. The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.
• n. Something used to oppose attack(s).
• n. An argument in support or justification of something.
• n. (team sports) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with…
• n. (team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with…
• n. Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
• n. (obsolete) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To furnish with defences; to fortify.

defend

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.
• v. (transitive) To ward off attacks from; to fight to protect; to guard.
• v. (transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
• v. (transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
• v. (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing…
• v. (sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did…
• v. (poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.

defense

• n. The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
• n. Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
• n. An argument in support or justification of something.
• n. (government, military) Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
• n. (obsolete) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.

digest

• v. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for…
• v. (transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and…
• v. (transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive…
• v. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical…
• v. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
• v. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
• v. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief).
• n. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads…
• n. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
• n. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine…
• n. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.

endure

• v. (intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships.
• v. (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
• v. (intransitive) To last.
• v. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under…
• v. (transitive) To suffer patiently.
• v. (obsolete) To indurate.

evaluate

• v. (transitive) to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) to compute or determine the value of (an expression).
• v. (transitive, computing, mathematics) To return or have a specific value.

fend

• n. (Britain dialectal) An enemy; fiend; the Devil.
• v. (intransitive) To take care of oneself, to take responsibility for oneself.
• v. (rare, except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block…

fight

• v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
• v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
• v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
• v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
• n. An occasion of fighting.
• n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
• n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
• n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
• n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
• n. The will or ability to fight.
• n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

flora

• n. plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
• n. a book describing the plants of a country etc.
• n. The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body, such as intestinal flora.

halt

• v. (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
• v. (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay;…
• v. (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
• v. (intransitive) To stop marching.
• v. (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
• v. (transitive) To bring to a stop.
• v. (transitive) To cause to discontinue.
• n. A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
• n. (rail transport) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
• adj. (archaic) Lame, limping.
• v. To limp.
• v. To waver.
• v. To falter.
• n. (dated) Lameness; a limp.

judge

• n. A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering…
• n. A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
• n. A person officiating at a sports or similar event.
• n. A person whose opinion on a subject is respected.
• v. (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
• v. (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
• v. (transitive) To form an opinion on.
• v. (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
• v. (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
• v. (intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.

lay

• v. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
• v. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
• v. (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
• v. (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
• v. (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
• v. (law) To state; to allege.
• v. (military) To point; to aim.
• v. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
• v. (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
• v. (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
• v. To apply; to put.
• v. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
• v. To impute; to charge; to allege.
• v. To present or offer.
• n. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
• n. A share of the profits in a business.
• n. The direction a rope is twisted.
• n. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
• n. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (slang, archaic) A plan; a scheme.
• n. (uncountable) the laying of eggs.
• n. A lake.
• adj. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
• adj. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
• adj. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
• v. simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
• v. (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
• n. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
• n. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
• n. (obsolete) A law.
• n. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
• v. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

layover

• n. A pause in a journey.

let

• v. (transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. (transitive) To allow the release of (a fluid).
• v. (transitive) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
• v. (transitive) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
• v. (transitive) Used to introduce an imperative in the first or third person.
• v. (transitive, obsolete except with know) To cause (+ bare infinitive).
• n. The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
• v. (archaic) To hinder, prevent, impede, hamper, cumber; to obstruct (someone or something).
• v. (obsolete) To prevent someone from doing something; also to prevent something from happening.
• v. (obsolete) To tarry or delay.
• n. An obstacle or hindrance.
• n. (tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.

measure

• n. A prescribed quantity or extent.
• n. The act or result of measuring.
• n. Metrical rhythm.
• n. A course of action.
• v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
• v. To estimate the unit size of something.
• v. To judge, value, or appraise.
• v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
• v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
• v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
• v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

oppose

• v. To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc…
• v. To object to.
• v. To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
• v. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
• v. To compete with; to strive against.

pedestal

• n. (architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
• n. (figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.
• n. (rail transport) A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding…
• n. (machining) A pillow block; a low housing.
• n. (bridge building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests…
• n. (steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above…
• v. To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.

permit

• v. (now archaic, rare) To hand over, resign (something to someone).
• v. (transitive) To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.
• v. (transitive) To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to.
• v. (intransitive) To allow for, to make something possible.
• v. (intransitive) To allow, to admit (of).
• v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To grant formal authorization for (something).
• v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To attempt to obtain or succeed in obtaining formal authorization for…
• n. (obsolete) Formal permission.
• n. An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal.
• n. A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

platform

• n. A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
• n. A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion, a tribune.
• n. A kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles.
• n. (figuratively) Something that allows an enterprise to advance; a foundation or stage.
• n. (automotive) A set of components shared by several vehicle models.
• n. (computing) A particular type of operating system or environment such as a database or other specific…
• n. (geology) A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion.
• n. (nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
• n. (politics) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
• n. (travel) A raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.
• n. (obsolete) A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform.
• v. (transitive) To place on a platform.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
• v. (politics, transitive) To include in a political platform.

pose

• n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
• v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
• v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
• v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
• n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
• n. Affectation.
• v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
• v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
• v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

posture

• n. The way a person holds and positions their body.
• n. A situation or condition.
• n. One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
• n. (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
• v. (intransitive) to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will…
• v. (intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction.
• v. (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.

put

• v. To place something somewhere.
• v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
• v. (finance) To exercise a put option.
• v. To express something in a certain manner.
• v. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.).
• v. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
• v. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
• v. To attach or attribute; to assign.
• v. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
• v. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
• v. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
• v. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
• n. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
• n. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
• n. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
• n. An old card game.
• n. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
• n. (obsolete) A prostitute.

rack

• n. A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
• n. Any of various kinds of frame for holding clothes, bottles, animal fodder, mined ore, shot on a vessel,…
• n. (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
• n. A distaff.
• n. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to…
• n. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction…
• n. A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
• n. A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a…
• n. A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
• n. A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
• n. (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
• n. (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars,…
• n. (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners,…
• n. A grate on which bacon is laid.
• n. (obsolete) That which is extorted; exaction.
• n. (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
• v. To place in or hang on a rack.
• v. To torture (someone) on the rack.
• v. To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
• v. (figuratively) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
• v. (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
• v. (slang) To strike a male in the groin with the knee.
• v. To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic…
• v. (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
• v. (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
• v. To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
• v. To stretch a person's joints.
• v. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
• v. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
• n. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
• v. (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning…
• v. (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
• n. A fast amble.
• n. (obsolete) A wreck; destruction.

remain

• n. State of remaining; stay.
• n. That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
• n. (plural only) remains: That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
• n. The posthumous works or productions, especially literary works of one who is dead.
• v. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left…
• v. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to…
• v. To await; to be left to.
• v. (copulative) To continue in a state of being.

resist

• v. (transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.
• v. (transitive) To withstand the actions of.
• v. (intransitive) To oppose.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be distasteful to.
• n. A protective coating or covering.

rest

• n. (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
• n. (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
• n. (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
• n. (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state…
• n. (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death.
• n. (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
• n. (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
• n. (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
• n. (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the…
• n. (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
• n. A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
• n. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
• n. (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
• n. The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals…
• n. (dated) A set or game at tennis.
• v. (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without…
• v. (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
• v. (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, reflexive) To be or to put into a state of rest.
• v. (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding,…
• v. (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
• v. (intransitive) To lie dormant.
• v. (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
• v. (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
• v. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
• n. (uncountable) That which remains.
• n. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
• n. (Britain, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the…
• v. (obsolete) To remain.
• v. (obsolete) To arrest.

serve

• n. (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
• n. (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
• v. (heading, personal) To provide a service.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
• v. (heading) To be effective.
• v. (heading, transitive, law) To deliver a document.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball,…
• v. (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
• v. (intransitive) To be in military service.
• v. (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
• v. (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
• v. (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing…

service

• n. An act of being of assistance to someone.
• n. (economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
• n. A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.
• n. (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
• n. The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
• n. The military.
• n. A set of dishes or utensils.
• n. (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other…
• n. A religious rite or ritual.
• n. (law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
• n. (Jordanian, Lebanese, Syrian, Israel, West Bank) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom…
• n. A musical composition for use in churches.
• n. (obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
• n. (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
• v. (transitive) To serve.
• v. (transitive) To perform maintenance.
• v. (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act.
• n. service tree.

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

stall

• n. (countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
• n. A stable; a place for cattle.
• n. A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
• n. (countable) A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market.
• n. A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
• n. (countable) A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with…
• n. (aeronautics) Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded.
• n. (paganism and Heathenry) An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial…
• n. A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
• n. A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
• n. A sheath to protect the finger.
• n. (mining) The space left by excavation between pillars.
• n. (Canada) A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
• v. (transitive) To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
• v. To fatten.
• v. (intransitive) To come to a standstill.
• v. (transitive) To cause to stop making progress, to hinder, to slow down, to delay or forestall.
• v. To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
• v. (intransitive, aeronautics) To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in total loss of lift.
• v. (obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a stall; to dwell.
• v. (obsolete) To be stuck, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
• v. (obsolete) To be tired of eating, as cattle.
• v. To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
• v. To forestall; to anticipate.
• v. To keep close; to keep secret.
• n. An action that is intended to cause or actually causes delay.
• v. (transitive) To employ delaying tactics against.
• v. (intransitive) To employ delaying tactics.

stance

• n. The manner, posture, or pose in which one stands.
• n. One’s opinion or point of view.
• n. (Scotland) A station; a position; a site; a stopping place for buses at a bus station.
• n. (obsolete) A stanza.

standpoint

• n. Point of view; perspective.

standstill

• n. complete immobility; halt.

stay

• v. (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
• v. (transitive) To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
• v. (transitive) To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
• v. (transitive) To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
• v. (transitive) To hold the attention of.
• v. (transitive) To bear up under; to endure; to hold out against; to resist.
• v. (transitive) To wait for; await.
• v. (intransitive) To rest; depend; rely.
• v. (intransitive) To stop; come to a stand or standstill.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end; cease.
• v. (intransitive) To dwell; linger; tarry; wait.
• v. (intransitive) To make a stand; stand.
• v. (intransitive) To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end.
• v. (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for an indefinite time; sojourn; abide.
• v. (intransitive) To wait; rest in patience or expectation.
• v. (intransitive, used with on or upon) To wait as an attendant; give ceremonious or submissive attendance.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to have a particular quality.
• v. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
• v. (obsolete) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.
• v. To cause to cease; to put an end to.
• v. To fasten or secure with stays.
• n. A prop; a support.
• n. (archaic) A fastening for a garment; a hook; a clasp; anything to hang another thing on.
• n. That which holds or restrains; obstacle; check; hindrance; restraint.
• n. A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress.
• n. (archaic) A standstill; a state of rest; entire cessation of motion or progress.
• n. A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
• n. A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
• n. Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn.
• n. (nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
• n. Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
• n. A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
• n. (obsolete) Hindrance; let; check.
• n. (nautical) A strong rope supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other…
• n. A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole,…
• n. (chain-cable) The transverse piece in a link.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Steep; ascending.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
• adv. (Britain dialectal) Steeply.

stomach

• n. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
• n. (informal) The belly.
• n. (obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
• n. (obsolete) Appetite.
• n. (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
• v. (transitive) To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.

stop

• v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
• v. (intransitive) To not continue.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
• v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
• v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
• v. (intransitive) To tarry.
• v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
• v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
• v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
• n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
• n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
• n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
• n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
• n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
• n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
• n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
• n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
• n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
• n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
• n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
• n. (photography) An f-stop.
• n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
• n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
• n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
• adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
• interj. halt! stop!
• punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
• n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
• adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

stopover

• n. A short interruption in a journey or the place visited during such an interruption.
• n. Alternative spelling of stop-over.

suffer

• v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
• v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse.
• v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.

support

• n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
• n. Financial or other help.
• n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
• n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
• n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
• n. Evidence.
• n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
• n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
• v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
• v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
• v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
• v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
• v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
• v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
• v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
• v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
• v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
• v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

table

• n. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
• n. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
• n. (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the…
• n. (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
• v. To put on a table.
• v. (Britain, Canada, New Zealand) To propose for discussion (from to put on the table).
• v. (US) To hold back to a later time; to postpone.
• v. To tabulate; to put into a table.
• v. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
• v. To supply with food; to feed.
• v. (carpentry) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the…
• v. To enter upon the docket.
• v. (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the…

tie-up

• n. A temporary interruption or cessation of a normal activity.

tolerate

• v. To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.

vegetation

• n. (uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
• n. (pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth.
• n. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

viewpoint

• n. The position from which something is observed or considered; an angle, outlook or point of view.

withstand

• v. To resist or endure (something) successfully.
• v. To oppose (something) forcefully.