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STAND UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Defend against attack or criticism
Example:
She stuck up for the teacher who was accused of harassing the student
Synonyms:
stand up; stick up
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "stand up" is one way to...):
defend; fend for; support (argue or speak in defense of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Refuse to back down; remain solid under criticism or attack
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "stand up" is one way to...):
hold out; resist; stand firm; withstand (stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Be standing; be upright
Example:
We had to stand for the entire performance!
Synonyms:
stand; stand up
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "stand up" is one way to...):
rest (not move; be in a resting position)
"Stand up" entails doing...:
arise; get up; rise; stand up; uprise (rise to one's feet)
Verb group:
place upright; stand; stand up (put into an upright position)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stand up"):
ramp (stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing)
stand back (stand away from an object or person)
line up; queue; queue up (form a queue, form a line, stand in line)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 4
Meaning:
Put into an upright position
Example:
Can you stand the bookshelf up?
Synonyms:
place upright; stand; stand up
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "stand up" is one way to...):
lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)
Cause:
stand; stand up (be standing; be upright)
Verb group:
stand; stand up (be standing; be upright)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 5
Meaning:
Rise to one's feet
Example:
The audience got up and applauded
Synonyms:
arise; get up; rise; stand up; uprise
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "stand up" is one way to...):
change posture (undergo a change in bodily posture)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stand up"):
take the floor (stand up to dance)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue stand up
Sense 6
Meaning:
Rise up as in fear
Example:
It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!
Synonyms:
bristle; stand up; uprise
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 7
Meaning:
Resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.
Example:
This theory won't hold water
Synonyms:
hold up; hold water; stand up
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "stand up" is one way to...):
endure; go; hold out; hold up; last; live; live on; survive (continue to live and avoid dying)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples:
The Ibizan Hound is an agile, deer-like, athletic hound that has a long, arched neck, long wedge-shaped head, and very large, triangular ears which stand up when the dog is alert.
(Ibizan Hound, NCI Thesaurus)
But the supply of food and the nine breakers of water enabled the boat to stand up to the sea and wind, and I held on as long as I dared.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“Give me a loan of the link, Dick,” said he; and then, when he had a good light, “That'll do, lad,” he added; “stick the glim in the wood heap; and you, gentlemen, bring yourselves to! You needn't stand up for Mr. Hawkins; HE'LL excuse you, you may lay to that. And so, Jim”—stopping the tobacco—“here you were, and quite a pleasant surprise for poor old John.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
One of those big bats that they call vampires had got at her in the night, and what with his gorge and the vein left open, there wasn't enough blood in her to let her stand up, and I had to put a bullet through her as she lay.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
When he had told of his horse, he took a newspaper from the table, and looking over it, said in a languid way, “If you want to dance, Fanny, I will stand up with you.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Again, they are mostly poor folk, even the nobles among them, so that there are few who can buy as good a brigandine of chain-mail as that which I am wearing, and it is ill for them to stand up against our own knights, who carry the price of five Scotch farms upon their chest and shoulders.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In vain did she entreat him to stand up with somebody else, and offer to introduce him to any young lady in the room.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
You can sit down or stand up as you please, sir.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"He couldn't stand up straight," asserted her husband.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
We do not walk. All the time we fall down. We stand up and stagger two steps, maybe three steps, then we fall down again.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
