standingn.1
/ˈstandɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈstændɪŋ/ 1. † b. The state of being motionless or stationary; the condition of being at a standstill. Obsolete.In quot. a1398 with reference to the appearance of the fixed stars (fixed star n. at fixed adj. 6c).standing of the sun: see Phrases 1.† c. In figurative contexts: the condition or state of standing upright on one's feet. Obsolete.
a. The action of stand v. (in various senses). Also: an instance of this.
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the world > matter > liquid > fact of being still or not flowing > [noun]
standing?c1225
tardation1568
stagnancy1659
stagnation1665
restagnation1673
stagnance1850
the world > space > relative position > posture > action of standing up or rising > [noun] > fact of standing
standing?c1225
upstanding1535
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > opposition or resistance > resolute resistance
standing1565
hold-out1945
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > [noun] > offering oneself as candidate
standing1678
run1828
running1830
candidating1885
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 206 Me schal stonden eauer to ȝeines þe deouel, for þet stondunge is treowe trust of hardi bileaue up on godes strengðe. Þis fallunge is edmod cnawinge of þin achne wachnesse.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxvii. 15 The myche swering speche shal sette stonding [a1425 L.V. schal make stondyng up] of heer, for fer, to the hed [L. horripilationem capiti statuet].
a1525 (a1473) Syon Additions Brethren (St. Paul's Cathedral 5) in J. Hogg Rewyll Seynt Sauioure (1980) III. xix. 55 The lay brethren..keping the same stondyngis and syttyngis that the quer doth.
?1527 Iudycyall of Vryns iii. iii. 48 b The standyng long tyme of ye burbels in ye vrinal sheweth that ye sekenes hath long tyme contynued.
1565 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc v. ii. 27 One sort that saw the dangerous successe Of stubborne standing in rebellious warre.
1678 I. Walton Life of Sanderson b 4 His former standing for a Proctors place, and being disappointed, must prove much displeasing.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 382/1 A long piece of Copper..having the ends bent down..and then bent out again for its more steady standing.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives III. 451 When they saw the depth of the Roman battalions..and the firmness of their standing, they drew back.
1840 R. H. Barham Jackdaw of Rheims in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 220 He curs'd him in sitting, in standing, in lying.
2002 N. Reid in J. Newman Ling. Sitting, Standing & Lying x. 245 [In a Northern Australian language] squatting, kneeling or any stance between lying and standing can be described statively as ‘sitting’.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement
standinga1398
stay1525
stand1584
consistence1598
still-stand1600
station1603
standstilla1646
dead lock1781
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. xxi. 497 Stelle ben iclepid sterris, and hauen þat name of stando ‘stondinge’ [L. stelle a stando sunt dicte]; for, þouȝ þey meue alwey, alwey it semeþ þat þey stonde.
?1527 Iudycyall of Vryns ii. vi. 26 b Yf the vryne come out in lesse quantyte..than it dede in the standyng or in the encresyng, or..in the begynnyng of the ague.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > upright or erect posture > [noun]
bolt-uprightnessc1405
erection1622
erectness1646
standing1709
1709 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels IV. 283 They..not only recover their Standing, but even profit themselves of their Fall.
1746–7 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 73 Afraid to plunge into the abyss of eternity, yet utterly unable to maintain their standing on the verge of life.
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the world > space > relative position > low position > [noun] > condition of being placed under > that which lies under > base on which a thing rests
staddlea900
groundc950
base?c1335
standinga1382
foundation1398
basingc1400
bottom1440
subjecta1500
groundworka1557
basis?a1560
pedestal1563
understand1580
footwork1611
centrea1616
underwork1624
skaddle1635
substructure1641
foot piece1657
pediment1660
seat1661
sedes1662
under-warp1668
plantationa1680
terrace1735
substructure1789
footing1791
seating1805
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 370) (1850) 2 Chron. vi. 13 Salomon hadde maad the brasyn stondynge [a1425 L.V. foundement; L. basis], and hadde putte it in the mydil of the grete hous.
a1450 York Plays (1885) 286 (MED) Steppe on thy standyng so sterne and so stoute.
?a1556 Grey Friars Chron. anno 1551 in R. Howlett Monumenta Franciscana (1882) II. 232 The stondynge at the tabulle in Powlles was removyd into the sowth.
1558 in E. B. Jupp Carpenters' Co. (1848) 51 Payd for the caryage of our standyng into fanchirche Strete at the commyng in of quene elizabeth vij d.
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 190/2 Fori,..the galleries or standings for the beholders of plaies: the scaffoldes.
a1641 J. Finett Philoxenis (1656) 64 The French Ambassador in the first window..and the Spanish in a standing dressed up of purpose over the Porters lodge.
1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. 47 Mr. Majendie has built two standings for wheat-ricks.
3. † a. A high-ranking position or station. Obsolete.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. xxii. 19 I shal putten þee out fro þi stonding [L. statione]: & fro þi seruyse I shal depose þee.
b. High esteem, rank, or status. Later (also) more generally: esteem, rank, or status of any degree in society or within a particular community, such as a religion, profession, etc.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > distinction of class > level or grade
mannishOE
placec1330
state1340
gree1382
conditionc1384
sectc1384
sortc1386
ordera1400
raff?a1400
degreea1425
countenancec1477
faction?1529
estate1530
race1563
calibre1567
being1579
coat1579
rang1580
rank1585
tier1590
classis1597
strain1600
consequence1602
regiment1602
sept1610
standinga1616
class1629
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quality1636
sort1671
size1679
situation1710
distinction1721
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walk1737
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caste1816
social stratum1838
station1842
stratum1863
echelon1950
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. i. 31 Pain. A Picture sir... Poet. Admirable: How this grace Speakes his owne standing: what a mentall power This eye shootes forth. View more context for this quotation
1627 S. Wales Totum Hominis 105 In the verie same place where he denies himself to be perfect, he calleth himself & those beleeuers in Philippi, that were of good standing and growth in Christianity, perfect.
1738 Defoe's Compl. Eng. Tradesman (ed. 4) I. i. 8 Not that the young man should confine himself absolutely to such as are of like standing with himself.
1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. ix. 529 Barristers of high standing.
1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking i. 12 We must..keep before us the commercial standing of the countries in which these banks were created.
1889 M. Creighton Hist. Ess. (1902) vii. 232 Men of some standing in the neighbourhood were chosen.
1902 V. Jacob Sheep-stealers ix Now that he had become a man of money and standing.
2002 R. Cohen By Sword iii. viii. 168 The great moralist may have sanctioned the ‘point of honor’ but other men of standing condemned it.
c. Originally North American (originally and chiefly Sport). The position or rank of a person or organization in a competitive hierarchy. Also: a score indicating this. Frequently in plural.
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1872 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Citizen & News 21 Aug. The report of the championship committee was presented, which shows the standing of the clubs who have played through the first series of games.
1917 R. Earle Life U.S. Naval Acad. v. 113 Class standing is affected in some measure by conduct.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 8/1 The appointment leaves 10 vacancies in the 102-seat Senate. Standings now are: Liberal 60; Conservative 29; Independent 2; Independent Liberal 1.
1977 Belfast Tel. 24 Jan. 17/7 He now leads the world drivers' championship standings with 13 points.
2008 Metro 28 Apr. (London ed.) 66/1 Carlos Checa moved up to second in the standings after two podium finishes.
4. A position at a fair or market where someone can display and sell wares. Also: a booth or stall occupying such a position. Now historical or English regional (western), Irish English, and Welsh English.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun]
shopOE
boothc1175
cheaping-boothc1175
stall1377
standinga1387
crame1477
bower1506
stand1551
loge1749
market stall1827
kiosk1865
joint1927
society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > pitch
standinga1387
standage1600
pitch1699
stance1814
pitching stand1847
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 97 Stalage, custom for stondynge in stretes in feyre tyme.
a1547 in J. R. Boyle Early Hist. Town & Port of Hedon (1895) App. p. lxxx Evrie man that hath a standing of vij. foote on Holyruddaie..shall paye ij.d.
a1563 V. Leigh Moste Profitable Sci. Surueying (1577) sig. D 3 Booths, Standings, shambles, and tolles,..of a weeklie market.
1626 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 338 If any..of the company of taylors..shall departe his shopp or standing, to worke in any man's house.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 252 The clothiers..had their booths and standings within the church-yard.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Butcher Morgan 've a-paid for a stan'in' in our market 'is number o' years.
1974 J. B. Keane Lett. of Love-hungry Farmer in Celebrated Lett. (1996) 195 There is a third lady I met in the market when I was buying a trousers in the standings.
2014 I. Mitchell Trad. & Innovation in Eng. Retailing, 1700–1850 i. 22 A general provisions market had flourished in Gloverstone..with goods like meat, bread, flour, fish, eggs, butter, milk and cheese being on sale at standings set up on both sides of the street.
5. † a. The position or arrangement of each of several things in relation to each other. Also: a position of this kind in battle. Obsolete.† b. The place where something is located, installed, stationed, etc. Obsolete.† c. A posture, position, or orientation assumed by a person or thing. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > [noun]
standing?c1400
situationa1484
setting?1523
disposition?1541
position1556
collocation1605
posture1605
standa1684
lie1697
lay1819
presentation1833
sit1857
gisement1864
orientation1875
?c1400 in J. O. Halliwell Rara Mathematica (1839) 60 Peraventure you standes in an aley, and þe thyng þat you wolde mete es vp on an hegh hille, first þan biholde þe heghte of þe hille by both þe holes of þe quadrant, and þat by tuo stondynges of D and C as we taght nowe next bifore, and marke þat wele in þi mynde.
c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) l. 6591 Touchyng hir povnes..y Haue declared..The maner and the ordynaunce Of ther stondyng.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iii. 127 The order and standing of the Vitellian army I dare not for certaine auouch.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xliv. 510 That you may fitly appoint the standings of trees.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 84 If the Eye be applied too near the Stick, a Defect in the standing of the others can't be so well perceived.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 350 The double Rows were apt to heat each other by their close standing.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > actually occupied > in respect of surroundings
site?c1400
situationc1485
standing1538
seat1549
neighbourhood1668
emplacement1780
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Situs,..also the settynge or standinge of a place, which is now called the syte.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 51 To sette and fasten some of them [sc. stars] in theyr standinges so that they can not moue, and to other some, to grant a free course.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 83 Baroch is visible by reason of her high standing a good way distant.
1682 N. Crouch Admirable Curiosities 67 Yet is the Structure better than the standing thereof, as being somewhat low on the one side.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 231 They..resolv'd, ‘That the Standing of the Communion-Table in all Churches should be alter'd’.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > [noun]
standing1540
gesture?1548
site1573
posture1605
positure1621
figure1658
pose1818
body mechanics1922
the world > space > relative position > posture > action of standing up or rising > [noun] > action or posture of standing
station1526
standing1540
stature1605
plant1817
the world > space > relative position > [noun] > as erect, horizontal, etc.
standing1683
1540 R. Morison tr. J. L. Vives Introd. Wysedome (new ed.) sig. A viijv A ryght gentyll man is he, whom nature hathe fashyoned and set, as it were in a standyng for the recepte of vertue.
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 31 The fyrste poynte is..to take suche footyng and standyng as shal be..cumlye to the eye.
1611 Second Maiden's Trag. (1909) ii. ii. 33 I like the standing of my head to well To haue it mended.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 277 [They] try whether the Stone lye truly Horizontal, which they know by the standing of the Water: For if the Water delate itself equally about the middle of the Stone, the Stone lies Horizontal.
1801 T. Roberts Eng. Bowman 294 The Standing, the posture in which an archer stands, when he shoots.
d. The position of the indicator of a graduated instrument; (also) a reading taken on such an instrument. Cf. stand v. 21. Now rare.Used for the position of a pointer on a graduated scale and for the height of the column of liquid in a thermometer, barometer, etc.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > graduated instruments > indicator's position on graduated instrument
standinga1652
a1652 S. Foster De Instrumentis Planetariis (1659) 16/2 The former observation of the standing of the compasses, either above or below the threed, will resolve.
1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 293 The standing of the Mercury, in the Tube, is always taken upon the Distance of the upper from the lower Superficies.
1869 Rep. Comm. Heating, Lighting, & Ventilation S. Kensington Museum 30 in Parl. Papers XIII. 621 I have tried to find out what would be the average standing of the thermometer in the National Gallery during the winter, and it is about 55°.
1920 W. Sheppard Pract. Navigation 26 The average standing of the barometer for the sea level is 30 inches.
2010 Zygon 45 386 A captain turns his ship after having noticed the standing of the compass needle.
6. A standing place, a station; standing room.† c. A place or position where someone stands; accommodation or space for one person to stand, esp. as a spectator. Also in to take (or) keep one's standing. Also figurative. Obsolete.Cf. stand n.1 14a.† d. A place at which a race ends; a finish line. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.† e. A settlement or encampment. Obsolete.
a. A place from which a hunter shoots game; = stand n.1 16. rare and historical after 17th cent.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > place to shoot from
standa1425
standinga1425
batterya1841
shooting-hole1850
butt1880
box1884
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxxv. 115 Þenne shulde þe maister of þe game..meete þe kynge and brynge hym to his stondynge and telle hym what game is withinne þe sette.
1551 J. Williams Acct. Monastic Treasures (1836) 87 For newe makinge a standinge in Combes parke.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxvi. 187 And thus you may trayne a Foxe to a standing, and kyll him in an euening with a Crossebowe.
1600 Maydes Metamorphosis iii. 1 And yet my maister wayteth with his bowe, Within a standing, for to strike a Doe.
1616 Manifest. Abp. of Spalato's Motives App. iii. 6 Imitating the Huntsman, who bending his bow to strike a faire Stagge, puts forth towards the Standing, for shew, other raskall Deere with him.
1828 W. Scott in Q. Rev. Mar. 312 The honoured guests, being stationed in fit standings, had an opportunity of displaying their skill in venery, by selecting the buck which was in season,..and bringing him down with the cross-bow.
2014 M. de Belin in N. Sykes et al. Deer & People xxi. 253 The deer were driven by dogs, and held to course by men..stationed along the route to the standings.
b. A place in which cattle, horses, or other livestock may be kept; a stable. Also: a stall or accommodation in a stable for a single animal; (spec.) accommodation for a horse in a stable. Now English regional.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > animal house
houseOE
stablec1250
standing?1440
helm1501
barth1570
stablet1585
hive1653
barn1770
animal shelter1891
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 523 Let make an hous for bestis..Of forkis, & of boord, & bouwes colde, A stondyng most be maad.
1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula (new ed.) sig. C.v Stabulum, a stable or a stondynge.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 610 They also had a care to couer all the flower [of their sheep-stables] with strawe..to the end they might not be annoyed in their owne standings.
a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 71 Sir, don't you forget to pay for your Horse's standing?
1813 Sporting Mag. Apr. 54 Converting..all the stalls of a stable into loose standings.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) So John 've a-tookt the Dree Cups (Inn); I do year 'tis capical premises, an stannins for up thirty osses.
1962 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday Surv. Eng. Dial. I. i. 60 Stall. Q[uestion]. What do you call this?.. Range, Stall, (Cow-)Stand, [Northumberland, Yorkshire] Standing.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > position for standing in
standing placec1425
fundamenta1450
standinga1450
podisma1460
footing placea1568
pou sto1831
the world > space > [noun] > sufficient space or room > for standing
standage1603
standing room1603
standinga1627
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1913) II. l. 14196 (MED) Alle that weren jn here stondyng they Slowen down ryht as they come.
?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xvi. sig. E2v Thei must take standings in shoters hill, in newmarket heath, and in stangate hole.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 837/2 God..hath founde a way by this facultie of printyng..to cast downe the foundation of his [sc. the pope's] standyng.
c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 59 Himselfe toke his standinge on the open deck.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiv. x. 255 The rest of the souldiors..gained the passing high and difficult bankes, and firmely kept their standing.
a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women i. iii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 104 Now they come... You sirra, get a standing for your Mistress.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 99 In this [hollow] Tree they both took their standing.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xii. i. 371 Along the streets where the procession was to pass, were scaffolds, on one of which I purchased a standing.
1856 N. Brit. Rev. 26 43 What should prevent our receding and taking a still lower standing?
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c1510 Gesta Romanorum (de Worde) sig. A.iiv The whyle she was in takynge vp the thyrde balle the knyght gate afore her and was fyrst at the standynge.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > camp or encampment > [noun] > site of
standing1598
camping-place1606
outspanning1841
yayla1864
camping-ground1867
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales i. x. 19 The fift, and one and twentith legion, lodged in winter standings threescore miles off, at Vetera.
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. iv. i. 137/2 But then no longer able to hold out against them, they left their standings & departed the land.
f. A place where horse-drawn cabs, taxis, etc., wait for passengers; = stand n.1 21. Now somewhat rare.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by vehicles plying for hire > [noun] > driving or hiring of cabs > station for vehicles plying for hire
standa1732
rank1829
standing1831
cab stand1832
coach-stand1834
hazard1836
ranking1903
taxi rank1907
taxi station1912
1831 London Hackney Carriage Act (1 & 2 Wiiliam IV, c. 22) §35 Every Hackney Carriage..shall..be deemed to be plying for Hire, although such Hackney Carriage shall not be on any Standing.
1853 Act 16 & 17 Victoria c. 33 §6 The several standings for hackney carriages..within the Metropolitan district.
1934 Taxi 27 Jan. 3/3 The Commissioner has cancelled the standing at Rosebery Avenue, junction of Faringdon Road.
7. † b. The continuance in time or existence of something; the lasting or enduring of something. Obsolete.
a. With modifier or modifying phrase: the state or fact of having existed for a specified length of time; the state of beginning in or belonging to a specified time in the past. Chiefly in phrases such as of old standing, ancient standing, and †late standing.See also long standing n.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > degree of antiquity
standing1566
1566 J. Rastell Third Bk. beware of M. Iewel f. 38v The foundation of six hundred yeres standing on sure grounde, let him pull downe all.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. l. 65 The Titolati were of much later standing than Doctors.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 318/2 Another fashion of Compasses..not much differing from them though of an Elder standing.
a1741 C. Fiennes Through Eng. on Side Saddle (1888) 68 The Skull was whole and the teeth firme, tho' of so many yeares standing.
a1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 49 This is reckoned a proverb of a late standing.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod i. i. 13 These privileges were of ancient standing.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. i. ii. 21 There is a quarrel of twenty-five years' standing with the Parlement.
1995 K. Ishiguro Unconsoled xxii. 324 Someone glimpsing them from the gate might easily have mistaken them for an elderly couple of many years' standing taking an habitual walk together in the sunshine.
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the world > time > duration > [noun]
lengtha1240
date?1316
durationc1384
hautesse1399
quantity?a1425
periodc1475
tracta1513
allowance1526
continuance1530
wideness1535
continue1556
protense1590
countenance1592
stay1595
standing1600
dimension1605
longanimity1607
longinquity1607
insisture1609
existence1615
unprivationa1628
continuity1646
protension1654
measure1658
course1665
contention1666
propagation1741
protensity1886
1600 J. Hamilton Facile Traictise Sacram. 443 This heresie [sc. adultery] baith repugnes to the trew law of God and is preiudiciable to the lawful standing of Noble houses.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 431 The Fabrick of his Folly, whose foundation Is pyl'd vpon his Faith, and will continue The standing of his Body. View more context for this quotation
1690 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 26 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. A) XII. 65 All..teynd duties payable furth of the estate during the standing of the marriage.
8. † c. A person's age. Obsolete. rare.† d. The length of time an object has been in existence. Obsolete. rare.
a. Length of service, experience, or residence; position as determined by seniority in membership of a university, a profession, etc. in (also of) good standing: (of a member of a religion, club, etc.) that has fulfilled all one's obligations, esp. the payment of dues, fees, tithes, etc., as a member.
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the world > time > duration > [noun] > length of service, residence, etc.
standing1579
longevity1905
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > [noun]
nameeOE
talec1175
fame?c1225
lose1297
creancec1330
stevenc1374
opinionc1384
credencec1390
recorda1393
renowna1400
reputationc1400
reportc1425
regardc1440
esteema1450
noisea1470
reapport1514
estimation1530
savour1535
existimationa1538
countenancea1568
credit1576
standing1579
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perfumec1595
estimate1597
pass1601
reportage1612
vibration1666
suffrage1667
rep1677
face1834
odour1835
rap1966
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skill acquired by experience > length of experience
standing1579
1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 60 What greater and more odious infamye for on of my standinge in the Universitye and profession abroade then to be reckonid in the Beaderoule of Inglish Rimers?
1648 W. Jenkyn Ὁδηγος Τυϕλος i. 7 Sundry who exceed Master Goodwin in standing, and very much in understanding.
1651 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 26 They came in order to the king (from the youngest in standing to the eldest).
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 252. ⁋3 I am a Practitioner in the Law of some standing, and have heard many eminent Pleaders in my time.
1803 Gradus ad Cantabrigiam 131 Standing; academical age, or rank. ‘Of what standing are you? I am a Senior Soph.’
1841 W. M. Thackeray Hist. Samuel Titmarsh in Fraser's Mag. Oct. 392/1 The Company was only four years old, and the oldest clerk in it had not six months more standing in it than I.
1868 Monthly Jrnl. (Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) Apr. 118/1 Our Division is doing as well as can be expected, numbering some sixty members, all in good standing.
1892 Law Times 93 550/1 To whose kind co-operation I, as a judge of long standing, feel that I ought to pay my tribute.
1970 G. Schwartz Sect Ideol. & Social Status vi. 187 Every Seventh-day Adventist member in good standing is able to vote for church officers, except for the pastor, who is appointed.
1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Mar. 46/3 A French teacher of some 20 years standing.
2013 M. L. Dauber Sympathetic State vii. 209 She offered that she was a ‘member in good standing in the Rebekah lodge’ where she and her husband had served as ‘Grands’.
b. The age of a tree, forest, etc. Cf. standing adj. 10.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by age or life cycle > [noun] > age
standing1660
1660 J. Howell Lex. Tetraglotton Dict. at Oak An Oak of about 60 years standing.
1716 Worlidge's Compl. Syst. Husbandry & Gardening 162 Copses being of a competent growth, as of twelve or fifteen years, are esteemed fit for the Axe; but those of twenty years standing are better.
1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 245 If we estimate its [sc. the oak's] standing upon the principle of the usual rule, we shall have to give it an antiquity of upwards of 2000 years.
1960 Plant & Soil 12 166 The total nitrogen immobilisation in a forest of not more than 50 years standing was 1,825 lb./acre.
2014 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) (Online ed.) 27 Aug. The government had opened protected reserves of many years standing to environmentally destructive logging.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun]
eldOE
yearsOE
oldc1175
statea1350
agea1387
springs1597
seniority1776
standing1789
1789 C. Smith Ethelinde II. vi. 127 You was considering how much younger you look than she does, though you are I suppose about the same standing.
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1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter i One of those gigantic Highlanders of wood which have almost risen to the standing of antiquities.
9. A growing tree or group of trees, esp. that has been left standing after coppicing or harvesting. Also: †an upright pole (obsolete). Cf. standard n. 13. Now rare. [Perhaps < standing adj.]
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habitat > [noun] > forest tree > tree left standing
standard1473
staddle1543
waver1555
standing1580
sampler1652
stemmer1858
the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > a vertical support, post, or stake
stakec893
studeOE
studdleeOE
stealc1000
stockc1000
postOE
stander1325
pillar1360
stilpc1380
bantelc1400
puncheon1423
stanchion1433
standard1439
side tree1451
stancher1488
stanchel1586
stipit1592
shore1601
trunch1622
arrectary1628
staddle1633
standing1800
mill-post1890
1580 Lease (All Souls Coll. Oxf. Archives: Edgware Leases No. 16) Christopher Hovenden..shall allwayes leave sufficient standardes and standinges according to the custome of the contry there, and according to the lawes & statutes of this Realme.
1800 Hull Advertiser 7 June 3/3 The country people went into the hop-gardens..and some pulled down the standings.
1930 Investig. Communist Propaganda: Hearings before Special Comm. House of Representatives: Pt. 5 (71st Congr., 2nd Sess.) I. 190 We left standings of an entire species of wood, that is, hemlock; we did not cut the hemlock in the woods at all.
2002 E. J. Graham Maritime Hist. Scotl. 288 (note) The accessible prime standings of timber suitable for shipbuilding on the Norwegian coast had been steadily depleted since the 1750s.
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1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes at Priapismo The standing of a mans yard.
1654 Mercurius Fumigosus No. 13. 121 She after a slight wooing, easily consented to accompany him that Night in a Truckle-bed under his own standing.
11. A period during which someone remains in an upright standing position; the length of time someone stands without sitting or resting.
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the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > spell of some action > specific activities
gradation1613
standing1653
sea-time1663
travel time1851
alert1920
block time1930
screen time1991
the world > space > relative position > posture > action of standing up or rising > [noun] > action or posture of standing > period during which one stands
standing1653
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler ix. [xii.] 181 They may be at one standing, all catch'd one after another. View more context for this quotation
1850 Lady Lyttelton Corr. (1912) xvi. 407 I never was more knocked up than last night, by..several long standings with Her Majesty.
1904 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 112 The gentleman in Horace who could reel you off two hundred verses at a standing.
1988 Eng. Jrnl. 77 iv. 27/2 Each poster presenting more images and text than one can take in at one standing.
12. Law (chiefly U.S.). A position from which one has the right to prosecute a claim or seek legal redress; the right itself. Cf. locus standi n.
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society > law > legal capacity > [noun] > legal standing
locus standi1809
standing1844
locus1866
1844 Aris's Birmingham Gaz. 22 Apr. They (the plaintiffs) could have no standing in a court of equity to seek to restrain the defendants from the full exercise of those indisputable legal rights.
1924 G. Sutherland in U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 264 271 The complainants have no standing, to vindicate the rights of the public.
1972 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 24 Oct. 3/3 It is sufficient for purposes of standing that plaintiff establish a causal connection between the violations alleged, be they fraud or breach of fiduciary duty, and plaintiff's loss.
2004 Jrnl. Afr. Law 48 157 The appellant's standing to sue was challenged in the Court of Appeal which ruled that he had no standing.
Phrases
P1. standing (still) of the sun: = solstice n. 1. Now rare and historical.In quot. c1425 with Apollo as personification of the sun.
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the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [noun] > solstice
sunsteadOE
solsticea1325
stinting of the suna1387
solsticionc1400
standing of the sun?1440
solstitium?1521
stay of the sun1538
solstacionc1540
sunstay1545
conversion1553
staying of the sun1555
solstitial1561
solsticy1570
trope1599
solstead1601
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 630 (MED) He had made in þe crabbis hede His mansioun..Wher halowed is þe standyng estyval Of fresche Appollo with his golden wayn.]
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) vii. l. 71 Brasike is sowe at stondyng of the sonne.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at Heate Solstitium..is sometyme more aptlye taken for the staye or standynge of the sunne, whyche is twise in the yeare.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Den stil-standt der Zonne, the Solstice, or the Standing still of the Sunne.
1989 S.-M. Kang Divine War in Old Test. & Anc. Near East iv. 156 The last element of holy war in the battle of Gibeon is the standing of the sun and moon in heaven which is cited from the Book of Yashar.
P2. in good standing with: on good terms with; in favour with. Cf. sense 8a.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > favour > in favour [phrase]
in (also into) a person's books1618
well1670
in good standing with1755
in (also into) a person's good books1839
1755 R. Abercrombie Acct. Proc. Presbytery 25 The Presbytery should esteem me in good Standing with them.
?1815 Sketches Hist. Dartmouth Coll. & Moors' Charity School 26 This venerable religious establishment..is in good standing with all the regular and orthodox.
1912 Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. 652 For a number of years after this Eustace was in good standing with the English king.
2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 Jan. 28/4 Despite the Club for Growth's remonstrations, Huckabee is in good standing with Americans for Tax Reform, whose famous ‘pledge’ not to raise taxes under any circumstances he has agreed to.
Compounds
C1. With adverbs, forming compound verbal nouns corresponding to phrasal uses of stand, as in standing by, standing up, etc.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. lxvi. 1 Heuene my sete: & erþe þe stonding-vp place [a1425 L.V. stool] of my feet [L. scabellum].
c1475 (?c1400) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 431 (MED) Ȝif apostasie is stondyng bihynde, hou myche stondiþ bihynde ilche siche þat shal be dampned?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. ii. 189 Poore Trespasses, More monstrous standing by. View more context for this quotation
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 162 They raise a Bur on the Face..to keep the Matrice off the Carriages and Bodies... But..the hollow standing off of the Face of the Matrice from the Carriages and Bodies, subjects the Mettal to run between them.
1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 26 790 In order to shew acquiescence he must shew a standing by with full knowledge of what was being done.
1903 C. R. Coleridge C. M. Yonge: Life & Lett. iii. 98 It was the week before the ‘Standing up’ i.e. the repetition of an incredible number of lines of Latin or Greek Poetry.
1991 B. Leigh Catch of Hands 82 There was a standing-still of everything, a lack of tempo, an alteration in the direction of my living and some little change in me, felt but not seen.
2010 Independent 27 Oct. 11/3 The technical name for the phenomenon is ‘piloerection’, defined as a visible standing up of the body hair and a poultry-like appearance of the skin's surface as tiny muscles attached to hair follicles contract.
C2. General use as a modifier, as in standing area, standing post, etc.
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1611 B. Jonson Catiline v. sig. M2v Cras... Let vs now take the standing part. Caes. We must... Yet I would faine helpe these wretched men.
1731 T. Salmon Mod. Hist. XIV. vi. 295 Within this Court or Yard..are about 100 standing Stalls for Butchers, for the selling of Beef only.
1845 J. T. Headley Lett. from Italy 126 The ordinary price of a seat, or even of a good standing spot in one of these houses, is a scudi or dollar.
1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism I. xiv. 400 A track leading to it from our standing-post.
1989 A. Aird 1990 Good Pub Guide 836/1 Bar in front with standing areas, dining area behind, dim lighting.
2000 D. Yue tr. X. Xi Flying Carpet ii. 272 Falibaba returns to his standing post outside the entrance of the safety vault.
C3. General use as a modifier and in various other types of compound.For standing place, see the main entry.† standing out n. Obsolete a projection or protrusion from an adjacent surface; something that protrudes in this way; cf. stand v. 18d.
standing bar n. rare (in figurative contexts) a barrier that brings something to a halt.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > that brings a person to a stand
standing bar1720
1720 D. Waterland 8 Serm. Divinity of Christ viii. 319 Baptism; which was one of the Best Fences to the true Faith, and a standing-Bar to most Heresies.
1950 Irish Times 10 May 3/4 I do say that the Roman Church has created a standing bar to Christian unity in the exaltation of these doctrines into essential Articles of Faith.
standing bench n. a bench or work table designed to be used by a person standing upright.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > work-benches, seats, etc. > [noun] > work-bench > for work to be done standing
standing bench1854
1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 Dec. 356/1 For the shoemaker, an upright bench has been invented... A standing-bench is really better.
1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 691/1 A simple..work-bench, at which shoes may be made standing. Of this standing-bench, we offer a sketch.
2015 i-Independent (Nexis) 10 Aug. (First ed.) 5 Standing benches and sinks for those working in clay or other media.
standing desk n. a desk designed to be used by a person standing upright, esp. (now) one used with the aim of reducing the amount of time spent sitting.
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1660 C. Hoole New Discov. Old Art of teaching Schoole iv. vi. 266 There should be two standing de [s] ks set opposite in the midst of the Schoole, for boyes to stand at, when they pronounce.
1801 Morning Post & Gazetteer 11 June Patent Library or Office Tables, that rise to a sitting and standing desk for reading and writing, as the altitude may be varied at pleasure.
1910 Pop. Mech. Nov. 722/1 A flexible leaf, which may be pulled out in front to form a rigid writing surface at the height of the ordinary standing desk.
2014 Time 8 Sept. 23/3 Try standing up more than you sit at your desk. Or look into getting a standing desk.
standing ground n. (a) ground upon which a person or thing may securely stand (chiefly figurative); (b) ground upon which a contest may be fought or a stand may be made (literal and figurative).
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun]
fieldeOE
place?c1225
fletc1275
champ of battlec1300
champany?a1400
o laundon?a1400
palaestrac1425
battle-stead1487
fighting-stead1487
open fielda1500
spear-field1508
joining-place1513
camp1525
foughten field1569
battleground1588
Aceldama1607
champian?1611
field of honour1611
champaign1614
standing ground1662
fighting-field1676
battlefield1715
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > [noun] > fixing, establishing > basis of
standing ground1662
on the sure side1668
society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > place where contest is fought out > ground on which contest may be fought
battleground1809
standing ground1866
1662 M. Mead Εν ολιγω Χριστιανος 243 Conversion ground is standing ground, it is terra firma, but a graceless profession of Religion is slippery ground, and falling ground.
1848 W. H. Mill Five Serm. ii. 51 In opposing them we shall proceed..on that firm standing-ground which all our truly great Divines have marked out, of adherence to the principles of the Ancient Church.
1864 T. H. Huxley Lect. Compar. Anat. vi. 87 Only those [systems of classification] published..since our knowledge of the anatomy of these animals has approached completeness, have now any scientific standing-ground.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. vii. 193 How villainous for men on foot, not only to face knights, but to bring them down to their own standing ground by basely cutting off their horses' heads!
1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. iv. 60 The concessions..had given the invaders a standing-ground.
1895 Educat. Rev. Sept. 120 It offers us a sure standing-ground for our educational theory.
1997 Times 5 Apr. (Weekend section) 5/1 Fork-lifts and heavy machinery are required both to move the trees to their standing ground and also to install them at planting time.
2018 O. C. Hood Army of Tennessee in Retreat 3 The engagements..were not fought as pitched battles of two opposing forces facing each other over standing ground.
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c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 28v (MED) The þridde principal part of þe necke is seid guttere, and it is þe firste knotte of þe þrote..& it is þe eminence or þe stondinge out of þe Epigloti.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 247 About the mouth there appeare and seeme to bud forth three eminenties or standings out.
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush v. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mm3v/2 And since the standing out of Bruges, where Hemskirke had hid her, till she was neer lost.
1912 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Nov. 62/2 The standing out of the petrous bone as a very dense, roughly triangular area.
standing point n. †(a) (originally) a degree of advancement, development, etc. (obsolete rare); (b) (in later use) = standpoint n. (in various senses). [In sense (b) after German Standpunkt: see standpoint n.]
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun]
sightc1515
standing point1606
station1659
aspect1660
point of view1701
viewpoint1839
visual point1842
standpoint1843
eye-point1875
1606 E. Forset Compar. Disc. Bodies Nat. & Politique 85 The state or standing point of a disease.
1847 W. Smith tr. J. G. Fichte Characteristics Present Age xvii. 254 A view taken from the standing-point of this Age itself.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 80 A lovely and almost level ridge..connected it [sc. the mountain top] with our standing-point.
2010 G. Tyrer Learning to Lead 56 Ask the students to discuss what they were thinking when they chose their standing point.
standing stool n. a device that resembles a stool and is designed to support a baby while it learns to stand upright and walk.historical after mid 19th cent.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > stool > [noun] > other stools
standing stool1578
Turkey stool1640
back-stool1762
bar-stool1922
riempie stool1933
step-stool1966
1578 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 91 A presse and a standdyne stole.
1600 Weakest goeth to Wall sig. F3 Get him a standing stoole, And then perhaps the child will learne to goe.
1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 130 The elf dares peep abroad, the pretty foole Can wag without a truckling standing-stoole.
1834 D. Atkins Med. & Surg. Cases & Observ. 86 He was placed in a standing stool upon rollers, and made to push himself about.
1899 A. M. Earle Child Life Colonial Days i. 23 A standing-stool a century old in which Newburyport babies stood and toddled is a rather crude frame of wood with a ledge or narrow table for toys.
2008 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 9 Nov. (Herald-Times ed.) f5/3 Standing stools, also called baby walkers or baby minders, were shown in pictures as early as the 15th century.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
standingadj.n.2
/ˈstandɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈstændɪŋ/ A. adj.
I. That remains at rest or in a fixed position.† 2. Cookery. Of a mixture: having a stiff consistency; thick, viscous. Cf. running adj. 18a. Obsolete.† 6. Designating the axis of a rotating object or device that remains stationary while the remainder of the object or device moves around it. Obsolete.
1.
a. Of water or a body of water: not running or flowing; having no current or tide; still, stagnant. Also in extended use.
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the world > matter > liquid > fact of being still or not flowing > [adjective]
stillOE
standingOE
settled1600
commorant1610
restagnant1651
stagnant1669
stagnated1703
stagnate1706
OE tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. iii. 23 Seððan ðær wæs standende wæter ofer þam lande, swa hit þære ea flod ær gefleow.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xi. 9 Al þat haþ fynnes & scalys [L. squamas], as wel in þe see as in floodes & stondynge wateres: ȝe shol eten.
a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 79 Þay ar vnhelfull, as þes stondyng waters.
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. E5v Noisome parbreak of the Stygian Snakes, Which fils the nookes of Hell with standing aire.
1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 5 The standing Lake soon floats into a Flood.
?1789 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 5 But eels never breed in standing waters that are without springs.
1860 Amer. Agriculturist Dec. 354/1 Keep all stock from the fields. See that the drains remove all standing water.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xvii. 392 The females select standing water—as water barrels, cisterns, tanks, polluted ponds, marshes, catch basins, or other water containers—on which to lay their eggs.
1992 Guardian (Nexis) 24 Apr. 32 A forest of mossy banks and standing pools in which bare winter gives place to well-apparelled spring.
2005 H. Mantel Beyond Black vii. 219 Al caught the scent of standing water.
b. Mining. Designating a fire caused by flammable gas in a coal mine that typically smoulders for an extended period of time; (also) designating (a body of) such gas, esp. methane. Chiefly in standing fire, standing gas. Now chiefly historical.
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1821 Glasgow Herald 29 Oct. The foul air..burst into the pit and ignited, but being what is called a standing fire soon went out.
1857 Trans. North of Eng. Inst. Mining Engineers 5 272 There were strong indications of fire..it was difficult to distinguish clearly whether these, or how much of them were attributable to the blast, and how much to the standing fire.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 238 Standing gas, a body of fire-damp known to exist in a mine, though fenced off.
1988 Okla. Reg. 5 All mines liberating any dangerous, explosive or noxious gases shall be kept free of standing gas.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [adjective] > stiff or thick
standingc1400
chargeantc1425
woolly1687
clunch1776
stodgya1852
c1400 Forme of Cury (Harl.) 129 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 127 (MED) Wesche þi ryse clene & do þerto sugur roche and salt; let hyt be stondyng.
?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 431 Thyck hit with floure of ryse, that hit be welle stondynge.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 14 But loke þat hit be not to þyn, But stondand.
a1500 tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1977) 5 (MED) Ete first þi rinning potage..and last þi stonding potage.
3. † c. Of furniture: taken in its existing condition as the contents of a property. Cf. as it stands at stand v. Phrases 3a. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
a. That remains in one place; that is not transported or relocated; stationary. Later also: that is positioned at a specific site. Now only in fixed collocations, such as standing camp, standing guard, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining in one place
stablea1400
dormantc1440
standing1469
remanent?a1475
ledger1547
fixed1559
restiff1578
statary1581
permanent1588
consistent1604
stationary1631
fundamental1633
resident1653
sedentary1667
statual1752
loco-restive1796
untransmigrated1821
stabile1896
static1910
sessile1917
1469 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 98 The estate, rule, and governaunce of the seid Prince in his ridinge, beinge departed from his standing housholde.
1553–4 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 289 The sowme..debursit be the farmorars of the commoun mylnis..upon the standing grayth thairof.
1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 75 Besides the standing watches all in bright harnesse in euery warde..there was also a marching watch, that passed through the principall streetes thereof.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiv. xii. 258 We trusted upon our standing campe.
1642 in W. H. Black Docquets Lett. Patent at Oxf. (1837) 336 The Office of Keeper of his Majesties standinge Wardrobe within the Castle of Windsor.
1746 W. Cooke tr. Sallust Jurguthine War in tr. Sallust Wks. 114 Albinus..kept the Army for the most part in a standing camp, except when the Stench or Want of Forage had compell'd him to change the situation.
1897 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign ix. 247 We got back to our standing camp outside the hills about mid-day.
2006 J. Burrell Rental Prop. Manager's Toolbox viii. 216 Standing guards are the most expensive of the two security systems, particularly when they are hired on a full-time basis.
2008 P. Lenihan in T. Pollard & I. Banks Scorched Earth 210 Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery's desiderata for a standing camp include a nearby river from which to drink and into which to tip dung and waste.
b. Printing. Of or relating to type that is not removed from the forme after use; (also) designating such type. Also as present participle, as in the type was standing.
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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > composed type > [adjective] > forme not distributed
standing1587
1587 in E. Howe London Compositor (1947) 16 No formes of letters be kept standinge to the preiudice of Woorkemen at any tyme.
1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. 21 Irregular Bodied Letter of the smaller sizes sometimes serves the ends of proprietors of standing and selling Copies.
1861 Amer. Publishers' Circular & Lit. Gaz. 22 June 215/2 If the author had chosen, while the type was standing, to strike off a few copies of the dialogue portions only.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 131 Standing, formes not distributed after printing are said to be ‘standing’.
1916 Estimating for Printers 24 If a job repeats and the printer has kept it standing without..rent, the job should be estimated as though it were reset, and the advantage of standing type kept by the printer.
2007 P. Mulholland in G. Taylor et al. Thomas Middleton & Early Mod. Textual Culture 509/1 Shared printing makes standing type a more realistic proposition.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > presence > [adjective]
boundc1175
present1340
towarda1375
presentlya1425
assistant1485
presentiala1500
presentaneous1668
assisting1670
standing1788
on the spot1886
on-site1939
1788 T. Jefferson Writings (1853) II. 407 He rented a house with standing furniture, such as tables, chairs, presses, &c., and brought all other necessaries.
4. Of an object: that is fixed or stationary; (also) designating a machine that is not currently functioning. Now historical.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining stationary
standing1525
restinga1616
stationary1668
society > occupation and work > equipment > [adjective] > not in operation
standing1697
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [adjective] > not in operation
standing1697
stripped-down1973
1525 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 221 The fermoraris of the mylnis..maid fayth that thai had maid expenssis vpoun the standand graith of the commoun mylnis in stra, scowis, rauchteris, lyme, sande and werkmanschip.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 143 Ixion..leans attentive on his standing Wheel. View more context for this quotation
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 237 Standing, not at work, not going forward, idle.
1918 Textile World Jrnl. 12 Jan. 473/2 The question was raised the other day whether standing machinery soon spoilt. One of the parties said that he had known spinning machinery to stand over six years and then be run all right.
1930 in F. Verulam Production for People (1940) vii. 97 This estimate of the amount of surplus capacity available is corroborated by the statement of the managing director..at the annual meeting in 1930 that ‘the average standing looms throughout 1929 in the Bradford area is 40 per cent.’
5. Of equipment, tools, etc.: installed or used in a fixed position.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > stable > firmly fixed > used in fixed position
standing1604
1604 W. Willymat Loyal Subiects Looking-glasse (new ed.) i. 51 It is the manner of fishers who vse to take fish with standing nets in running waters, that..they first blunder and muddle the waters, so that thereby their net cannot easily be seene by the fish.
1634 Act 10 Charles I Sess. 3. c. 14 §1 in Statutes at Large, Ireland (1765) II. 113 Setting of stop-nets, still-nets, or standing-nets fixed upon posts.
1767 T. Lillie & W. Turnet Proof adduced before Sheriff of Berwickshire 31 It has always been held unlawful..to block up a River with Standing-nets.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2308/1 Standing-vise.
1895 G. J. Burns Gloss. Techn. Terms Archit. Standing waste, an overflow pipe fixed to the bottom of a cistern.
1994 Chapman No. 77. 66 The fact that she had to go for water to a standing pipe at the end of the house ‘would do’ for her.
2001 Jrnl. Coastal Conservation 7 94/2 The use of standing nets has furthermore significantly increased the numbers of turtles and dolphins caught inside the National Park.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining stationary > while other parts move
standing1661
1661 T. Salusbury tr. Galileo Syst. World in Math. Coll. & Transl. I. 357 By the revolution diurnal about the standing Axis A B, all the points of the parallel EF passe by the same point F.
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiii. 228 Then remove the standing point of the Compasses to either of the next Devisions..and in like manner describe another Circle.
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic ii. 27 The rotation should be effected round a standing axis by wheels and pinions.
1896 C. H. Benjamin Notes Mech. Lab. Pract. v. 73 The end of one bar carries the standing point P which is the pole of the instrument.
1919 U.S. Patent 1,318,694 1/2 The rear edge of the tray terminates, preferably, opposite the standing pivot PV of the rear spring shackle.
II. That stands upright or on end.
7.
a. Of a thing: that stands upright or on end; that is oriented vertically; esp. (of a collar) upright rather than folded over or turned down. †Also occasionally standing-up.Recorded earliest in standing stone n.
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the world > space > relative position > vertical position > [adjective] > upright or erect
upstandingc1000
standing1180
erectc1386
upright1398
standard1538
top-right1562
steya1586
upstraight1598
struttinga1643
straight reacheda1649
surrect1692
stand-up1749
stick-up1808
to sit up and beg1869
1180 Charter (NRS GD55/111) in G. W. S. Barrow Acts of William I, King of Scots (1971) 275 & de pot usque ad standande stan.
a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) (1988) 169 (MED) The plute is a gyn of defence made like to þe side of an hous, wiþ a grounsel & ii stondinge postes and a cros beem.
a1539 in J. C. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiae de Rievalle (1889) 339 Other iij wyndows wt a standyng bar in euery wyndow and iii crosse barres.
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. xi. f. 321 Standing lines are called those fower right lines of euery parallelipipedon which ioyne together the angles of the vpper and nether bases of the same body.
1611 S. Rowlands Knaue of Harts (1612) B 3 Let vs haue standing Collers, in the fashion.
1794 Uniform for Navy of United States in G. Washington Papers (2011) Presidential Ser. XVI. 428 The Lappels to have Ten Buttons, and one to the Standing Collar.
1846 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. Gloss. at Fall The fall..not being so readily put out of order as the large standing-lace ruff, inasmuch as it reposed on the shoulders.
1893 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour (rev. ed.) i. 9 His waistcoats..were..made with good honest standing-up stiff collars.
1967 Guardian 1 Aug. 5/5 A close-fitting standing collar to which Paris is now giving the name Mao.
2003 S. Vincent Dressing Elite iv. 147 A rebato was a large standing collar, wired and starched to maintain its shape.
b. Of a building or its parts: that is or remains erect; not fallen or collapsed.
ΚΠ
1643 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1938) VIII. 40 Understanding that the sea daylie does incroatche upon the Touns houf in Leyth at the eist end theirof..ordaines the thesaurer to caus build the same from the present standing wark northward for the spaice of twentie fowr fute or therby [etc.].
1695 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 211 We made report of the state of Gr: House, & how the standing part might for 6000 pounds be made servicable at present & what Ground would be requisit for the whole designe.
1829 R. Mignan Trav. in Chaldea x. 220 Each face of this higher portion [of the ruin] is of greater dimensions than the standing turret-like building on the top of the mound of Nemroud.
1892 P. Lindley Tourist-guide to Continent (new ed.) 36 Broken flights of steps ascend..into yet standing fragments of the keep.
1920 G. L. Morrill Curse of Caribbean 242 The standing ruins of the Cathedral are decorated with falling vines; the empty windows filled with wild flowers.
2015 Brit. Mus. Mag. Winter 30/3 Medieval Muslim travellers passing through the Nile Valley, some on hajj, were fascinated by the standing remains of ancient Egyptian temples and tombs.
8. Of a body part: in an upright position; standing up or on end. Of the penis: erect. Also (rarely) of the eyes: projecting. In later use only of hair. [With reference to eyes (compare quot. 1649) perhaps after classical Latin stantēs oculī ‘standing eyes’ (Ovid Fasti 6. 133).]
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the world > life > the body > loose or stiff condition > [adjective]
leathwakec1000
lithebyc1000
starka1275
stiffc1305
standing1340
bainc1440
waldinc1485
resolveda1500
supplea1500
lash1513
limber1582
sagging1599
laxed1623
unslakeda1625
laxated1652
springy1674
gangling1764
lithesome1768
swack1768
unslackened1770
lissoma1800
wandle1803
loose-limbed1823
loose1846
unslacked1848
saggy1853
loose-jointed1859
loose-hung1869
gangly1871
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc.
steepc1000
standing1340
glazenc1380
glassy1412
ungladlyc1450
sparklinga1500
goggle1540
pinking1566
whally1590
vailed1591
unweeping1598
dejected1600
unwet1601
glossed1602
haggard1605
saucer-like1612
saucer1618
glaring1622
uncast1629
startling1648
poppinga1696
upraised1707
glancy1733
glazed1735
almond1786
open-eyed1799
bald1807
glazing1808
lustreless1810
unfathomable1817
vague1820
soulless1824
beady1826
socketless1833
fishy1836
glazy1838
popped1849
agoggled1860
uprolled1864
unfaceted1893
shoe-button1895
poppy1899
googly1901
slitty1908
bead-berry1923
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 216 Ase byeþ þe fole wyfmen þet guoþ mid stondinde nihcke [emended in ed. to nhicke].
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xv. 71 Þe good alauntes..shuld be white with a blake spotte aboute þe eres; smale eyenn ond white; stondyng eeres and sharpe aboue.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 54 And a stif standand thing staiffis in mi neiff.
1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) iv. 79 A hollow and standing eye.
1789 A. Hilditch Rosenberg I. 137 The poor peasant..with pale face, chattering teeth, and standing hair, presented such a picture of horror to his wife..that she was almost as frightened as himself.
1827 E. Griffith tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom IV. 364 The neck rather long, maned with black standing hair down to the withers.
1882 Sheffield Daily Tel. 1 Apr. 11/4 ‘How big was he?’ asked the cashier, with round eyes and standing hair.
2011 J. C. Whaley Where Things come Back vii. 69 A Mohawk-style cut with the tips of the standing hair died [sic] a bright red.
9.
a. Designating a bed on a stationary frame, esp. one mounted on posts with a space underneath, as distinguished from a bed that lies directly on the floor. Also: relating to a bed of this type. Chiefly in standing bed. Now chiefly historical.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > high bed
standing bed1380
stand bed1489
1380 in A. H. Thomas Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1929) II. 268 (MED) [A] stondyngbed, [2 s.].
1485 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 28 In the Cheffe Chaumbre a standyng bed, made with estrychborde.
1588 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 75 The great standinge bedd wth the wheele bedd under yt in the greate chamber.
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iv. v. 6 Sir Iohn, theres his Castle, his standing bed.
1624 Fairfax Inventory in Archaeologia (1884) 48 138 In the childrens chamber, a standing and a trundle bedsteed.
1765 S. Johnson Plays of Shakespeare II. 537/1 A standing-bed, under which was a trochle, truckle, or running bed.
1818 W. Kennedy Ann. Aberdeen ii. 353 One standing bed of oak; one long saddle seat of oak.
1931 Fortune Aug. 11/2 Sunlight, outside air, controllable heat and ventilation, standing beds, dressing lights and mirrors, ship-to-shore telephones.
2012 V. Harding in M. P. Davies & J. A. Galloway London & Beyond viii. 145 The first-mentioned chamber..had a standing bed with tester and curtains, featherbeds, and a coverlet with flowers, a trundle bed, and a child's cradle.
b. Of a piece of furniture: that rests on a base or feet when set up for use, as distinguished from one meant to hang from or lean on something else; free-standing.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [adjective] > types of furniture generally
standing1444
plush1615
Queen Elizabeth1673
occasional1749
Adametic1774
French-polished1836
upholstered1837
Adamish1838
Chippendale1855
Queen Anne1863
knock-down1875
Wellington chest1880
Adamesque1881
Sheraton1883
Hepplewhite1897
quaint1897
bombé1904
lowboy1915
Jacobean1918
overstuffed1922
spool1928
Williamsburg1931
thermed1952
stackable1958
Scandinavian1959
wall-to-wall1959
Populuxe1986
1444 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 99 Lego..j. standyng counter.
1503 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 62, No. 7) 1 standyng cuppord.
1612 Edinb. Test. XLVII. f. 142v in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Standand Ane standing chandler for the buirde.
1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xx. 227 A standing screen which perpetually belies its name.
1999 Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair: 1999 Handbk. 104 (caption) An 18th-century Georgian mahogany standing corner cupboard with a moulded cornice, the canted sides with fluted pilasters to the top.
10. Of or relating to vegetation that is growing and stands upright, as distinguished from vegetation that has been cut or felled, as in standing timber, standing corn, etc. Cf. standing crop n. (a) at Compounds 3.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [adjective] > standing or spiring
standingc1384
upright1597
spiry1602
spiring1612
spired1834
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Hosea viii. 7 A stondynge [L. stans] stalk is not in hem.
1564 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 279 The woddis and growand tymber..ar swa decayit..be the peling of the bark of the standand treis.
1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts ii. i. sig. D1v I'le make my men breake ope his fences; Ride o're his standing corne.
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 cxii. 29 When rowling thunders roar, And sheets of Lightning blast the standing field.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 427 I suppose I shall be asked how, in a standing Wood, I could carry the Path so streight.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. ii. 19 It was found advantageous to sell the standing grass.
1980 M. Thelwell Harder they Come ii. 61 He approached the standing woods, the uncultivated virgin forest that crowned the mountain.
2018 Tulsa (Oklahoma) World (Nexis) 28 Nov. Approximately 600 acres of woodland were burned over with a heavy loss in both small trees and matured standing timber.
11. Of an object: having a base, foot, etc., on which to stand, esp. in standing bowl, standing cup, standing nut (see nut n.1 2), standing piece. Now historical.standing salt: see standing salt n. at Compounds 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > relating to or forming a base > having a (specific) base
footedOE
standing1412
well-couchedc1475
bottomed1582
baseda1616
foundeda1616
well-bottomeda1628
well-founded1671
clawed1768
claw-feet1823
substructured1952
1412 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/291/5) j Stondyng pipe precii xij d'.
1459 Inventory Fastolf's Goods in Paston Lett. (1904) III. 169 Item, ij. stondyng candilstikkes.
1565 Will of Henry Lacie (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/48) f. 16v My standing Mazer of silver gilte, with a pale of silver aboute the foote.
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. D3v Fetch me that sweete wine..Powre it into a standing bowle of gold.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiii. xii. 483 A broad goblet or standing peece there was of his making.
1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 452 King James..came to Newcastle upon Tyne..and..was presented by the mayor..with a great standing bowl, to the value of an hundred jacobuses, and an hundred marks in gold.
1820 W. Scott Monastery III. ix. 219 There was neither mazer-dish nor standing-cup upon the little table.
1843 A. W. Pugin Apol. Revival Christian Archit. 81 b On the step, two high standing candlesticks.
1961 M. W. Barley Eng. Farmhouse & Cottage i. ii. 36 Water ran over the hands into a standing bowl of iron, or into a ‘sinkstone’.
2014 Brit. Mus. Mag. Spring 44/2 The standing cup was a high-status object and surviving examples can also be seen at the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, such as the Warden's Grace Cup from New College, Oxford.
12.
a.
(a) Of an action: performed in an upright position with the body supported by the feet.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action of standing up or rising > [adjective] > of an action
standing1604
stand-up1820
1604 in H. Paton Dundonald Parish Rec. (1936) 59 He tuik ane standing drink with thame..bot denyit that he sat dovn..with thame.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 243 That Warr..somtimes on firm ground A standing fight, then soaring on main wing Tormented all the Air. View more context for this quotation
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxviii. 284 Now, with incessant labour and standing-hauls, she moved at a snail's pace.
1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 119/1 Knee-trembler, a standing embrace; a fast-fuck; a perpendicular.
1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. v. 105 At ‘smoke-oh’ he used to take a standing jump over a bale of wool and then Brucksaw..used to carry it out of the shed single-handed.
2005 Yoga Apr. 14 Morning practice began with surya namaskar (sun salutations) followed by standing asanas such as trikonasana (triangle pose),..and sirsasana (headstand).
(b) Sport (esp. Athletics). Of a jump, pass, etc.: performed from a standing position. Cf. crouch n.2 b.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of play, actions, or postures > [adjective] > other actions or types of play
short1545
standing1728
unpenetrative1795
loose1802
scratched1869
cannonball1872
scratchy1881
punishable1910
wrong-footing1928
open1934
overhead1938
power1959
run-and-gun1960
tight1961
1728 Stamford Mercury 4 Apr. 112/1 The famous Stoned Horse..he's fit to carry 16 Stone a Fox-Hunting, and takes a standing or flying Leap as well as any.
1834 Caledonian Mercury 13 Oct. The following is the order of the games and the different prizes awarded for each... Standing High Leap—Thomas Tait, Silver Medal.
1891 H. H. Griffin Athletics 85 The standing long and high jumps are rarely ever heard of.
1960 E. S. Higham & W. J. Higham High Speed Rugby vii. 63 When a long pass is needed, the ‘dive’ pass, done properly, has advantages over the ‘standing’ pass.
2006 Athletics Weekly 14 Dec. 16/2 26 athletes..completed both a test quadrathlon and test octathlon comprising a variety of different events from traditional standing long jump and overhead shot, to more specific weight throws.
b. Of a posture or position: that is upright with the body supported by the feet.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > upright or erect posture > [adjective]
uprightOE
erectc1530
erected1604
straighta1616
straight-pighta1616
standing1631
undeclining1820
1631 W. Saltonstall Picturæ Loquentes sig. D12v His common standing posture is crossleggd.
1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) I. iii. xii. 276/2 On the side of the Church, in a handsome Frame of Architecture, are placed, in a standing Posture, two Savages, or Hercules, with Clubs erect; which quarterly strike on two Bells hanging there.
1817 Sporting Mag. 50 2 The wide area between his feet, when in a standing position, gave him so firm a ‘plant’, if I may so say.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vi. v. 376 And we,..endeavoured to talk gallantly in a standing posture.
1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo iii. 23 The male would occasionally try to bluff us off by raising himself to a standing position, and uttering threatening roars.
2007 Yoga Mag. Oct. 46/2 I will then do one or two standing postures, such as triangle and warrior; these help to energize the body and limber me up generally.
c. Of a person, animal, etc.: that is in an upright position with the weight of the body supported by the feet. †Also (rarely) of the limb used.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action of standing up or rising > [adjective]
upstandingc1000
struttinga1643
stationary1656
standing1672
stake-stuck1751
1672 J. Lacey tr. A. Tacquet Mil. Archit. iii. xx. 48 in T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline ii. Its least depth must be such, that may cover a standing man.
1713 T. Parkyns Inn-play 22 Hop full forwards with your standing leg.
1899 M. Benson & J. Gourlay Temple of Mut i. 8 Two colossal standing statues.
1956 K. Clark Nude iv. 117 The standing woman is not so datelessly naturalistic. Her..complex pose seems to have been derived from an antique relief.
1994 Dog World June 52/3 Knuckling over: Fault structure of corpus (wrist) joint allowing it to flex forward under the weight of the standing dog.
1999 Victorian Aug. 8/2 At the angles of the fountain Brock placed standing lions..representing Power.
2011 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 June 54/2 The standard Gandharan image of the standing Buddha is thought to have been inspired by statues of the Roman emperors.
d. slang. Of a person engaged in an occupation: performing in an upright position with the body supported by the feet. Chiefly and now only in standing patterer.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action of standing up or rising > [adjective] > of an occupation
standing1859
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Budge Standing-Budge, the Thieves Scout or Perdu.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 102/2 An elderly man..stood up to speak on behalf of the ‘paper-workers’, ‘flying-stationers’, and ‘standing-patterers’.
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 101 Standing patterers, men who take a stand on the curb of a public thoroughfare, and deliver prepared speeches to effect a sale of any articles they have to vend.
2003 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 3 May (Mag.) 9 Henry Owler, a standing patterer by trade, whose rap-like street poetry is all that separates him and his two daughters from the poor house.
13. Shipbuilding. Of a bevel or bevelling: forming an angle greater than a right angle; obtuse. Cf. under-bevelling n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [adjective] > forming more than right angle (of bevel)
standing1754
1754 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation ii. iv. 165 But if the timber is not hewed square..[and] if a square be applied to it, there will be wood wanting either at the upper or lower side... When the wood is deficient at the under side, it is called under bevelling; and when it is deficient in the upper side, it is called standing bevelling.
1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. i. iv. §44. 53 Their bevellings are always standing, or greater than a right angle.
2013 W. L. Crothers Amer.-built Packets & Freighters 1850s xi. 146/2 They were two types of bevel required, they being the standing bevel and the under bevel.
III. That stands or continues.
14.
a. Of rent, fees, income, wages, etc.: fixed over a specified period; regularly accruing. Of prices: not subject to fluctuation or alteration; set, fixed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [adjective]
truea1225
certain1297
standing1457
surec1475
stable1481
finite1493
resident1525
determinate1526
staid?1541
constantc1550
undiscomfitablea1555
inveterate1563
sound1565
unwanderinga1569
fixed1574
undisturbable1577
wishly1578
unremovable1579
inveterated1597
immoved1599
rigid1610
staple1621
consistent1648
irradicable1728
incoercible1756
hard and fast1822
unstrangulable1824
lockstep1831
statical1853
static1856
flatline1946
society > occupation and work > working > career > [adjective] > established
standing1457
afloat1656
settled1774
1457 Ayr Burgh Court Bks. 27 May in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Standand Thom Dauison has tane the fisching of Ar..for the termes of viii ȝeris..for viii markis of standand male ȝerly.
1473 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 190 He payand..ȝerly to ws of standand male xlb of vsuale mone.
1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. Diiv I know not what god geueth in standynges fees But the deuyls seruauntes haue casweltees A hundred tymes mo then goddes seruauntes haue.
1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 5 Many of theim [sc. artificers] liue as well as they that haue standyng liuinges.
1622 Pursuit Hist. Lazarillo (1672) T 3 To hear her..threaten with such arrogancy, a man would have thought she had given me..thirty duckets a year standing wages.
1670 R. Montagu Let. 12 Mar. in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Duke of Buccleuch (1899) I. 468 in Parl. Papers (C. 9244) XLVI. 1 My standing allowance from Michaelmas last till Christmas.
1730 Let. to Sir W. Strickland relating to Coal Trade 19 Keeping a Fleet in standing Pay.
1901 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 455/1 There are some booksellers who have no standing-price for their wares, but rate them according to what they think each customer will give.
2001 P. C. Click Time Full of Trial viii. 184 When hired by the year for a standing wage, the freedman agreed that half of the wages would be kept until the contract was up.
2020 Impact News Service (Nexis) 2 Jan. The standing fee that is charged per day for putting a pitch into use.
b. Of an attribute, trait, etc.: permanently belonging to the person or thing specified; immutable, indelible.
ΚΠ
1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions ii. 11 The byas and force of mens desires are oftentimes turned, by reason of some sudden emergent occurrences, contrarie to the standing temper and complexion of the Body.
1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 118 'Tis true, a Man cannot command the standing Features and Complexion; but the Diversities of Passion are under Disposal.
1835 J. Sterling Let. 29 May in T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling (1851) ii. ii. 147 Under this head, of language, may be mentioned..two standing characteristics of the Professor's style.
a1860 J. A. Alexander Gospel Matthew (1864) 153 The use of strong and paradoxical expressions, to arouse attention and provide for extreme cases, is..a standing characteristic of our Saviour's didache or mode of teaching.
2008 Ethics 118 414 I think of the self-concept as including a representation of his standing traits, his personal history, and the occurrent thoughts and feelings that he has at the present time.
15. † b. Of a work of art or literature: regarded as enduring or exemplary. Cf. standard adj. 3a. Obsolete.† c. Mathematics. Of a quantity or parameter: not varying in value; fixed; cf. variable adj. 6b. Obsolete.
a. Continuing without diminution or change; stable, constant, permanent. Of colours: permanent, unfading.
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective]
stablea1300
durablec1386
during1398
durant1455
permanent?a1475
standingc1480
perseverablea1500
indelible1532
of long standinga1568
permansible1568
long-established1589
dureful1595
subsistent1603
subsisting1613
staple1621
constant1645
long-standing1655
throughout1701
untemporary1784
pukka1801
rock-ribbed1903
hardwired1971
the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [adjective] > fast dyed
in grainc1386
grained1455
engrained1598
fast1658
standing1716
ingrain1766
fixed1791
fast-dyed1815
colourfast1851
wash-fast1963
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective] > remaining in specified condition > not fading
unwalloweda1500
indelible1579
standing1716
fade-proof1909
c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 22 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 7 Peter of ‘petra’ may be tane..for men may a stane neuir bow;..and þis petir, a-beove þe lafe, a stannand luf to criste can hafe.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) l. 2280 (MED) Liquour is a thing moveable, Of fletinge substance and vnstable; Alle such thingis folowyn the moone More than stondinge kyndes doone.
1587 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1587/7/24 The tenendriis haldin of uther superiouris becuming in our handes be escheit, as last air, be foirfaltour standand or be bastardie.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 292 Pitching our Tents beside a source or standing Well.
1716 J. Addison Free-holder No. 22. ⁋2 The Landlord..worked up his complexion to a standing crimson by his zeal for the prosperity of the church.
1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. ii. iv. 200 This ground being a standing dye is not removed by the proof.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iii. 9/2 His age, which was of that standing middle sort you could only guess at.
1900 ‘R. Guthrie’ Kitty Fagan 183 Broon an' black, good stan'in'colours!
1995 B. Maund Colours ii. 38 My hand has a standing colour that is mottled pink and cream.
2005 Middle Eastern Stud. 41 651 Those who seek their [sc. voters'] suffrages are under a standing temptation to flatter, if not to exacerbate, their passions.
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > qualities of works generally
wateryc1230
polite?a1500
meagre1539
over-laboured1579
bald1589
spiritless1592
light1597
meretricious1633
standing1661
effectual1662
airy1664
severe1665
correct1676
enervatea1704
free1728
classic1743
academic1752
academical1752
chaste1753
nerveless1763
epic1769
crude1786
effective1790
creative1791
soulless1794
mannered1796
manneristical1830
manneristic1837
subjective1840
inartisticala1849
abstract1857
inartistic1859
literary1900
period1905
atmospheric1908
dateless1908
atmosphered1920
non-naturalistic1925
self-indulgent1926
free-styled1933
soft-centred1935
freestyle1938
pseudish1938
decadent1942
post-human1944
kitschy1946
faux-naïf1958
spare1965
1661 T. Reeve England's Restitution 66 He [sc. Polycletus] must have a standing piece (as his Master-piece) that might please wise men, and skilful Artists.
1698 W. Wotton in Evelyn's Mem. (1857) III. 372 I had almost forgotten to thank you for your honourable mention of my poor performances in so standing a work.
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 114 The standing Pieces of good Artists must be form'd after a more uniform way.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > describing particular qualities > constant
standing1685
invariable1704
stable1728
constant1753
parametric1864
parametral1865
1685 J. Wallis Treat. Algebra xv. 68 I use also very often..to denote by Capitals or Great Letters, such Quantities as..are constant and standing Quantities; and by small Letters, such as are variable.
1730 E. Stone tr. G. F. A. de L'Hôpital in D. J. Struik Source Bk. Math. 1200–1800 (1969) v. 313 The ordinates and abscisses of a parabola are variable quantities, but the parameter is a constant or standing quantity.
1743 W. Emerson Doctr. Fluxions 4 The first Letters of the Alphabet, a, b, c, &c. are..put for standing Quantities; and the last, x, y, z, &c. for variable or flowing Quantities.
1756 N. Saunderson Method Fluxions 6 If a be a standing Quantity, and v a variable one, the Fluxion of the Product av will be av.
16. Originally: †(of clothing, a horse's trappings, etc.) ordinarily worn, for everyday use (obsolete). In later use more generally: habitually or regularly used; commonplace, ordinary, stock.See also standing dish at dish n. 2b.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > for specific purpose > everyday wear
standing1492
workday1516
workaday1554
everydaya1640
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > commonplace > habitually used or stock
standing1600
standard1724
stock1738
stereotype1824
stereotyped1849
stereotypic1884
1492 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 75 My best stondyng gowne furred wt bever.
1533 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 178 To be standing housouris to the grete hors, xviij elnis braid gray.
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iii. i. sig. Hiiv Hee hath shift of names Sir: some call him Apple Iohn, some Signior Whiffe, marry his maine standing name is Cavalier Shift. View more context for this quotation
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 101 There are Four Standing Characters that enter into every Piece that comes on the Stage, the Doctor, Harlequin, Pantalone and Coviello.
1758 S. Johnson Idler 1 July 97 He had a standing Elegy and Epithalamium of which only the first and last leaves were varied.
1861 T. A. Trollope La Beata II. xv. 148 He was fain to plead the standing excuse of a bad headache.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. App. 641 ‘Feri’ seems to be a standing epithet for all Saxons.
1993 News at Six Summer 5/1 A matter is an individual assignment for a client. You can set up a series of standard matters that make it faster to put in some of the standing information such as the partner responsible.
17. † a. Of a house: that is a permanent residence. Only in standing house and standing mansion-house. Obsolete.Cf. to keep, take up (one's) standing house.† b. Of a building or structure: permanent, not temporary. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [noun]
houseeOE
homeOE
houseOE
roofa1382
housinga1400
bike1508
dwelling-house1530
firehouse1530
standing house?1532
mansion house1533
maisonc1540
beinga1616
smoke-housea1687
drum1846
khazi1846
casa1859
shack1910
kipsie1916
machine for living (in)1927
?1532 C. St. German Treat. Diuision Spirytualtie & Temporaltie vi. f. 16 And that it be ferther enacted, that no man shall haue a chapleyne hereafter, but he haue a stondynge house, and that onely in his stondyng house, and none to haue a rydyng chapleyne vnder the degree of a baron.
1586 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. ii. vi. 167/2 The beere that is vsed at noble mens tables in their fixed and standing houses, is commonlie of a yeare old.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. xviii. 26 That your Grace would settle a standing Mansion-House and Family, that Suitors might know whither to repair constantly.
1671 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 5) i. xiii. 203 The Yeomen of the Guard... Their Office is to wait upon the King in his standing Houses.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > [adjective] > qualities of building generally
substantious1529
lightsome1548
standing1624
substantial1624
prospectless1656
light1765
pukka1777
low-browed1810
tavernous1866
barrack-like1915
demountable1939
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > types of building generally > [adjective] > other specific
standing1624
walk-up1928
LU1969
unlisted1970
mature1975
smart1984
1624 in F. Devon Issues Exchequer James I (1836) 294 For making divers new ridings within his Majesty's park at Theobalds,..making of standing bridges, levelling of ground, [etc.].
c. That continues in existence or operation; that continues to be the case; ongoing.
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective] > remaining in specified condition
unbrokena1300
unbrokea1325
unperisheda1400
upstandingc1450
unviolate1548
uncancelled1557
yet1608
voidless1642
indissolved1659
standing1673
unruinablea1684
unworn1748
decayless1828
1673 Bp. S. Parker Reproof Rehearsal Transprosed 249 Some standing jest that may give rellish and picquancy to all the other insipid and phlegmatick parts of the discourse.
1686 A. Horneck Crucified Jesus xiv. 326 The very Heathens..made it a standing maxim. That the Gods sold all their gifts for labour and industry.
1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. x. 275 These are the standing Proofs of the Being and Goodness of God.
1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) xix. §15 It is a standing topic of complaint.
1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty ii. 40 The beliefs..have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.
1869 J. Tyndall in Fortn. Rev. Feb. 237 The two great standing enigmas of meteorology—the colour of the sky, and the polarization of its light.
1974 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Jan. 54 Neither has time..for the old-fashioned ‘standing appointment’ at the hairdresser's.
1994 Wall Street Jrnl. 25 Nov. a1/4 He has a standing invitation to visit the presidential palace a few blocks away.
2005 New Yorker 17 Oct. 154/1 Collectors with whom the dealer has a standing relationship often take precedence.
18.
a. Permanently and authoritatively established or constituted; accepted, confirmed.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [adjective] > founding or instituting > settled or established
rootfastlOE
stablec1290
institutec1325
sad1340
firmc1374
rooteda1393
stabledc1400
substantialc1449
well-foundeda1450
surec1475
standing1549
afloat1551
well-established1559
steadyc1571
naturalized1590
erected1603
established1642
instituted1647
settled1649
riveted1652
radicate1656
inrooted1660
institute1668
statuminated1674
planted1685
stablished1709
deep-seated1741
founded1771
set-up1856
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Gal. v. f. xvii Whoso is content to receyue circumcision, muste lykewise therwith receyue sacrifices..standing fasting dayes [L. stata ieiunia], with suche other lyke.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Place & Time of Prayer i. sig. N nn j The godly Christian people..began to chose them a standyng day in the weke, to come together in.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης vi. 58 Which not onely the general Maxims of Policy gainsay, but eev'n our own standing Laws.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1661 (1955) III. 279 Masters of standing Offices being no Councellers viz. of the Tents, Revells, Ceremonies, Armorie, Wardrob, Ordnance.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 269 This standing, unalterable, fundamental government would make..that territory truly and properly an whole. View more context for this quotation
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iv. §29. 318 The Schools of the Prophets, and a standing Prophetic Order,..were formally established by Samuel.
2017 A. Brudner Owl & Rooster vi. 307 He rules not by monetary caprice but in accordance with standing laws.
b. Of an army, troops, etc.: maintained on a permanent basis, esp. in standing army, standing patrol.standing army is distinguished from military forces raised and disbanded according to need, as were the English armies before the 17th cent.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > [adjective] > regular
standing1600
commanded1651
regular1653
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. v. xxi. 1350 In the pitch and top of the hill,..you shall see the tower called Militiarum; where, in old time the souldiors of Trajane kept their standing guard.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 235 He kept alwaies a standing armie of fortie thousand horse, and threescore thousand foot.
1655 in C. H. Firth Clarke Papers (1899) III. 24 Commissions for raiseing of horse and foote, which are to bee in the nature of a standing Militia.
1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces i. 22 The States first refused to raise any more moneys either for the Spaniards pay, or their own standing-Troops.
1685 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 488 The King in his Speech requiring continuance of a standing force in stead of a Militia.
1732 J. Swift Beasts' Confession (1738) 17 'Twas known..That, Standing Troops were his Aversion.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. xxxviii. 55 He kept a standing army of 6000 mercenaries in his pay.
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 570 The standing navy of England consisted of sixteen ships.
1941 P. Richey Fighter Pilot 35 Germans..maintained a standing patrol on their own side, only crossing over to our side occasionally, and always very high.
2006 D. Runciman Politics of Good Intentions viii. 152 Al Qaeda seeks to possess many of the basic institutions of the state, including a standing army, a treasury, a permanent civil service, even a rudimentary welfare programme for its fighters and their families.
c. Of a legislative, administrative, or other body: permanently constituted.See also standing committee n.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [adjective] > permanently constituted
standing1608
1608 E. Grimeston tr. J. F. Le Petit Gen. Hist. Netherlands xiii. 1007 The Pollititians sought to assure them-selues in making of a standing councell.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 123 I commend also standing Commissions; As for Trade; for Treasure.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1671 (1955) III. 574 To Lond: about..as one of the standing Council for Plantations.
1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 37 A standing Parliament, or the same Parliament long continued, changes the very Nature of the Constitution.
1739 Bp. J. Butler Serm. in Wks. (1874) II. 217 A common form of Christian worship..with a standing ministry of instruction and discipline.
1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 155 In packing into a standing Board a set of dependent Commissioners.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iii. v. 195 Five Judges; a standing Jury,..they are subject to no Appeal.
1994 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 Jan. 140/3 He..was a member of the home secretary's Standing Advisory Council on Race Relations.
d. Of an official or officer: permanently appointed or holding permanent office.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > [adjective] > that cannot be displaced
standinga1626
undeprivable1643
irremovable1650
a1626 F. Bacon Proposition Lawes Eng. in Resuscitatio (1657) i. 275 In Athens, they had Sexvir, which were standing Commissioners, to watch, and to discern, what Lawes, waxed unproper, for the Time.
1656 T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 159 That there should be a standing treasurer.
1658 R. Parr Judges Charge 31 Sirs, you that are the standing Magistrates of the County, will it be for your honour (think you) to give license to such [Tipling-houses]?
1809 London Chron. 15 July 50/3 An opinion which the Court of Directors had taken upon the subject from the Attorney and Solicitor General, and their standing Counsel, Mr. Adam.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Standing Warrants, those officers who remain with a ship in ordinary, or on the stocks, as the gunner, carpenter, boatswain, and cook, and till 1814 the purser.
2004 S.-K. Lee in J. Carmichael et al. Aligning Financial Supervisory Struct. with Country Needs iv. 164 A government agency that consists of nine commissioners (chairman, vice chairman, standing commissioner, and six non-standing commissioners).
B. n.2
With the and plural agreement: those who stand (in various senses), considered collectively.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27581 We may se bitide and of-sise Þe standand fall, the falland rise.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. ci. 96 The field of battle exhibited strange groupes of the standing and the fallen.
1890 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 2 June 4/4 The sitting and the standing, the violent demonstrators and the cool on-lookers.
2015 S. Stern Pinch iv. 56 Some of the disciples were seated, some standing, and among the standing were those involved in various acts of penance.
Phrases
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [adjective] > specific with or to something
accordable1386
convenientc1400
agreeablea1450
to be standing withc1487
consonanta1492
consowningc1503
correspondenta1533
quadrant1536
constant1574
suitablea1586
uniforma1586
congruous1599
responsible1600
consentaneous1621
sympathizinga1627
consistible1642
consistent1646
consentany1648
consonate1649
quadratea1657
consonous1660
consentient1661
of a piece with1665
symmetrious1667
unison1675
consisting1700
one with ——a1848
congruent1875
c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica ii. 106 They supposed it was not standynge with with right that he shold be from his lyf depryued.
1511–12 Act 3 Henry VIII c. 23 §5 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 46 It is not convenient nor standing with good..ordre that [etc.].
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 288v Thy dooynges o Cato dooen more nere approche vnto the spirite of prophecie, but myne are muche better standyng with frendeship.
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1909) 34 But such stubburnesse..is not standing with Iustice.
1673 E. Coles Pract. Disc. God's Sovereignty 70 We cast out Works, as not standing with Grace.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > condition of not travelling > abstain from travelling [verb (intransitive)]
to keep (one's) standing house1589
1589 Mar-Martine A 2 Abbots were fat..The whoresons lov'de their ease, Yet standing house by them was kept.
1596 J. Norden Progr. Pietie f. 81v Hauing thus farre proceeded..wee must be forced to take vp our standing-house, and for a time abide in the earthly mansions of our bodies.
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P3. Nautical. all standing: see all standing at stand v. Phrases 3c.
Compounds
C1. Nautical. As a modifier, in the names of various ropes and equipment that are fixed in place or are part of the standing rigging (standing rigging n. at Compounds 2), as in standing backstay, standing block, standing bowsprit, standing lift, standing ropes, etc.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [adjective] > fixed (of rigging)
standing1581
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > fixed rigging
standing block1791
1581 Agreement conc. Galleon in E. G. R. Taylor Troublesome Voy. Capt. E. Fenton (1959) i. xiii. 21 Standing tackle & runnyng roapes, pulleys, shyvers,..bootes, toppes.
1642 H. Bond Boate Swaines Art 3 2 Lanniards of the Spritsaile standing Lifts.
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. (at cited word) Standing roapes, are counted all those roapes..which are not used to be removed, or to run in any blocks.
1745 Observ. conc. Navy 64 Every Ship should have her standing Masts constantly in and rigg'd, with her Booms and Stores aboard, sufficient to compleat her other Rigging.
1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §127 We fixed the standing block to the stern timbers of our vessel,..bringing the chain along the deck to the moveable purchase block.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 25 Ropes extended from the..mast heads, to the after part of each channel for the support of these masts. They are distinguished by the name of Standing-Backstays.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Standing Bowsprit, one that is fixed permanently in its place, not the running-in bowsprit of a cutter.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vi. 170 Sling a dipping lug 1/ 3 from the foremost yard arm; standing lug 1/ 4.
1996 J. R. King Remaking World 39 The rake and taper of the masts,..the dimension of standing ropes.
1997 Classic Boat May 52/1 (caption) The rig had a masthead jib and a standing backstay to the archboard of the counter stern.
C2. In senses of branch A. I.† standing prick n. Obsolete an archery target situated at a fixed distance from the archer; cf. prick n. 19a.† standing post n. Obsolete any one of a series of couriers or messengers stationed along a post route who carry letters, dispatches, etc., between one post-stage and another. Cf. post n.3 1.† standing quoin n. Nautical Obsolete a wedge placed between or among casks stored on a ship to hold them in place; cf. quoin n. 2c.
standing buddle n. Mining (now historical) a shallow inclined vat filled with water and used to sort and clean ore. Opposed to running buddle: see running buddle n. at running adj. Compounds 3b.
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1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 373 Sometimes the washing is performed in a square wooden trough,called a Standing-buddle.
1980 L. Willies Techn. & Organisational Devel. Derbyshire Lead Mining Industry (Ph.D. diss., Columbia Univ.) 164 It was cleansed by the swillers, either by a flow of water, or a vat (standing buddle), in which the material was either contained in a sieve, or held on a shovel.
standing ice n. a layer of immobile ice; spec. sea ice that is attached to the shore, ocean bottom, etc.; cf. fast ice n. at fast adj. Compounds 1.
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1821 tr. O. von Kotzebue in New Voy. & Travels VI. ii. 181 At midnight, at the moment we were dropping anchor, near the northern cape, we discovered, to our great consternation, standing ice, reaching as far as the eye could reach to N.E. and N.
1981 Associated Press (Nexis) 31 Jan. The crowd had waited for hours in sub-freezing temperatures near the floodlit tarmac, which had been salted periodically through the night to melt standing ice.
2019 R. G. Wealleans For Good of One 401 It's the thickness of the standing ice that is my concern. My ship's a five-meter breaker.
standing martingale n. Horse Riding a single adjustable strap fastened at one end to a horse's girth on the saddle, passed between the horse's front legs and fixed to the back of the noseband on the bridle; cf. running martingale n. at running adj. Compounds 3b.
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1822 Port Folio Mar. 211 For they, like all Asiatic horsemen, ride on wide-raised cushions, covered with cloths, have very short stirrups, and standing martingales.
1952 Times 17 Apr. 7/4 The theory, apparently, is that the running martingale lessens the strong effect of the standing martingale and helps to keep the horse's head well placed.
2008 Racing Post (Nexis) 2 Sept. 19 He always races in a standing martingale to help keep his head down.
standing part n. Nautical the end of a rope, sheet, etc., which is made fast, as distinguished from the other end used to trim sails, change course, etc.
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1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 100 The standing parts are those parts of running roapes (or rather that end of a running roape) which is made fast to any part of the ship, to distinguish it from the other part, whereon we use to hale.
1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 37 To have Bolts for the Top-tackles, standing Parts of the Sheets, Shank-painter Chains.
1847 J. Davis Jack Ariel I. iii. 62 A high aimed buzzing ball cut in two the standing part of the weather mizen-top-gallant brace.
1908 Man. Seamanship (1915) I. iii. 124 The standing part of the fall of this tackle is spliced into the strop at the arse of the single block.
2003 K. H. Marquardt Global Schooner 177/1 The runner had its standing part spliced round the boom end.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target
bercelc1440
butt1440
shell1497
rover1511
standing pricka1525
round1531
popinjay1548
prick-mark1553
Turk1569
twelve (also twenty-four) score prick1569
garden butt1572
parrot1578
clout1584
hoyle1614
shaw-fowl1621
prick wanda1650
goal1662
a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 338 Hit is ordeyned..þat noman..shote at Rovers, but at buttis & standyng prikkis.
1541–2 Act 33 Henry VIII c. 9. §2 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 838 Noe Man under thage of xxiiij yeres shall shoote at any standinge prick excepte it be [at] a Rover whereat he shall chaunge at every shoote his marke.
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > person or vehicle that carries letters or mail > [noun] > person > specific mounted
post1506
postman1529
through-post1552
standing post1584
postilion1616
horse-post1668
postrider1705
rider1714
1584 Orders Priuie Counsell for Postes 14 Jan. (single sheet) Whoseouer vpon any busines vrgent shal be occasioned to ryde in poste without comission, he shalbe likewise horsed by the standing poste of the place or by his appointment.
1609 Orders for thorough Postes in Rep. Secret Comm. on P.O. (1844) 42 The horsing of al through-, and persons riding in poste with horne or guide,..shall be performed by our standing Postes in their several stages; who..shall..have in a readinesse..a sufficient number of poste-horses.
1647 L. Haward Charges Crown Revenue 19 Thirty Standing Posts appointed by the Post-master.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > a stand or support to raise from the ground > others spec.
joistc1503
standing quoin1626
pot-board1696
urn-stand1862
check-stand1886
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 13 Ballast, kintlage, canting coynes, standing coynes.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) at Coin Standing Coins are Billets or Pipe-Stave to make the Cask fast that they cannot stir nor give way.
1711 Mil. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4) at Quoyn The standing Quoyns, made of Barrel-Boards, about four Fingers broad.
standing rigging n. Nautical the fixed ropes and associated fittings that support a vessel's masts and bowsprit. Opposed to running rigging n. at running adj. Compounds 3b.
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1655 Perfect Proc. State-affaires No. 310 4918 The States ship called the Recovery, now riding at Woollidge, with her Masts, yards, Furnaces and Boates, standing rigging of the lower Masts, being half worn.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. v. 56 The other ships of the squadron fixed new standing rigging.
1882 Cent. Mag. June 174/1 The standing rigging was set up anew, the shrouds rattled down, and..the men painted the weather-worn sides of the Three Brothers.
1947 H. Wyllie Let. in Mariner's Mirror (1948) 34 230 The unavoidable use of sisal instead of hemp for the standing rigging has been the cause of much trouble.
2015 D. McElvogue Tudor Warship Mary Rose iii. 25/2 The main and mizzen masts' standing rigging is spread by a timber shelf called a ‘channel’ running along the side of the summercastle.
standing start n. (of a horse, car, etc.) an instance of starting from a completely stationary state, esp. in a race or performance trial; (also) figurative.
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1811 Sporting Mag. Dec. 136/1 The town of Irvine, which has two remarkable sharp turns in it. At this place the mare fell; returned; took a standing start, and performed her task with ease.
1900 Motor-Car World Oct. 9/2 Jenatzy..covered..the first kilometre..with a standing start in 57 seconds.
1986 Parents Sept. 87/2 It's always amazed me..to see how each of my children progress from a standing start to a galloping command of English.
2006 R. Genat Hemi Muscle i. 24 From a standing start, the big DeSoto could reach 60 miles per hour in 9.8 seconds, an excellent time considering the weight of the car.
standing wave n. Physics a wave that oscillates in place having fixed positions of minimum and maximum displacement; = stationary wave n. at stationary adj. and n. Compounds.Contrasted with travelling wave n. at travelling adj. Compounds.
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > types of motion > [noun] > wave > types of wave
long wave1792
internal wave1804
stationary wave1833
solitary wave1838
standing wave1845
travelling wave1845
pressure wave1871
ripple1871
surface wave1887
sine wave1893
Rayleigh wave1903
shock wave1907
spherical wave1907
Love wave1924
bow shock1938
Rossby wave1951
soliton1965
1845 Rep. 14th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1844 389 All the waves of the second order, whether standing waves in running water or travelling waves in standing water, exhibit the forms of the curves..in fig. 1.
1929 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 123 388 We might have inside [sc. the nucleus] an alpha-particle, which has to be represented by a standing wave, whose energy is less than the potential energy at the top of the barrier.
2015 J. Schneider Contemp. Guitar (rev. ed.) iii. 49 This..occurs before the travelling waves excited by the pluck settle down into a standing wave and begin periodic vibration.
C3. In senses of branch A. II.
standing count n. Boxing a count of eight given to a boxer who has not been knocked down but who appears temporarily unfit to continue fighting; cf. count n.1 1c.
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1958 Nevada State Jrnl. 23 Mar. 13/4 Given a standing count by referee Eddie Cole, he lasted out the round.
1990 Ring Oct. 66/3 Suhara's southpaw hooks were so effective that Kim, a shorter rival, took a standing count thrice prior to referee Ken Morita's stoppage.
2018 Irish Independent (Nexis) 12 Nov. 41 The Irish champion forced his Czech opponent into a standing count in the third round with a left to the body and a right to the head.
standing crop n. (a) a growing crop; a crop that has been left uncut or unfelled (cf. sense A. 10); (b) Ecology the total biomass of an ecosystem or any of its components at a given time.
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > population > [noun]
increase1559
standing crop1683
populace1742
population1803
abundance1898
biota1901
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > standing crop
swath1577
standing crop1683
stand1833
swarth1880
1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike xvii. 1156 There was afterwards a standing crop of remedies collected, without number.]
1683 S. Hoadly Accidence xxi. 179 Standing crops are cut with sickles.
1723 R. Bradley Monthly Reg. Husbandry & Gardening, June–July 1722 6 Let us never be too late in preparing for our Winter Standing Crops; for we may lose a Third or Half Part of our Winter Store.
1861 J. Brown Forester (ed. 3) vii. 477 There is great danger of having it [sc. the work] carelessly performed, and very often to the damage of a considerable portion of the standing crop.
1919–20 Bull. U.S. Bureau Fisheries 37 241 The figures given in the various tables represent the amount of material [sc. plankton] that is present on a particular date—that is, the standing crop at that time.
1979 R. Brewer Princ. Ecol. iv. 129 At any one time each trophic level contains some amount of energy stored as biomass, often referred to as the standing crop.
2017 @bhartijainTOI 8 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 21 Dec. 2018) April rain in Delhi. Bad for the standing crop in north India?
standing crust n. Baking (now chiefly historical) a free-standing piecrust made and baked without the support of a dish or mould; a raised crust.In quot. 1688: a firm piecrust (cf. sense A. 2).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > [noun] > pastry crust or case
coffinc1420
rollera1475
pasty crust1562
custard coffin1581
piecrust1582
crust1598
kissing-crust1708
dripping crust1747
short crust1747
standing crust1747
huff1787
croustade1845
turban1846
1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Sss3/3 A standing Crust, Croûte ferme d'un Pâté.]
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery viii. 75 A Standing Crust for Great Pies... Work it [sc. Flour, Butter, and Water] well up into a Paste,..then make it up in what Form you will have it. This is fit for the Walls of a Goose-pye.
1868 ‘E. S. Delamere’ & ‘E. J. Delamere’ Wholesome Fare xv. 503 The pie-dish is here mentioned thus particularly, because it is not the general fashion to make Pigeon Pie with a standing crust.
2020 @DaisyMcDuck1 14 May in twitter.com (accessed 23 Nov. 2021) I really want to make a Tudor style meat pie with a standing crust.
standing cypress n. a North American herbaceous plant frequently cultivated for its tall spikes of bright red and yellow tubular flowers, Ipomopsis rubra (family Polemoniaceae); (also occasionally) summer cypress, Bassia scoparia (family Amaranthaceae).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > North American
innocent1600
lychnidea1733
swamp lily1737
atamasco lily1743
phlox1754
lychnis1760
painted cup1776
mountain pink1818
phacelia1818
innocence1821
Nemophila1822
clarkia1827
Physostegia1830
bitter root1838
standing cypress1841
false mermaid1845
lion's heart1845
shooting star1856
lewisia1863
satin flower1871
fame-flower1879
baby blue-eyes1887
mayflower1892
agastache1900
obedient plant1900
Pennsylvania anemone1900
rock rose1906
Virginia bluebell1934
parsley1936
poached egg flower1963
poached eggs1971
poached egg plant1977
1841 J. Darby Man. Bot. ii. 128 C[antua] Coronopifolia... Standing Cypress... One of the most beautiful of our native plants which has become extensively introduced into our gardens.
1935 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 22 529 Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad. Standing Cypress, Belvedere. Escaped from cultivation into waste ground and along railroads.
2011 L. Springer Ogden & S. Ogden in Waterwise Plants Sustainable Gardens 189 Larkspur... Lovely with orange poppies, gaillardia, yarrow, red standing cypress and butterfly weed.
standing image n. a statue or idol; (also figurative) a false god. [In early use translating classical Latin statua statue n., perhaps reflecting the ultimate derivation of statua from stāre to stand.]
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1535 W. Marshall tr. M. Bucer Treat. Images in Churches sig. C.iii. There is no cause why it maye nat be lawfull for vs to vse pictures & standynge images [L. statuis & imaginibus].
1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 86 The standing image [L. statua] which he hath set in ye Oratorie pulpit.
1611 Bible (King James) Lev. xxvi. 1 Ye shall make you no Idoles.., neither reare you vp a standing image . View more context for this quotation
1788 J. Trusler Habitable World Described II. 247 I saw some standing images with many arms and faces.
1892 S. Culin Loan Exhib. (Dept. of Archæol. & Palæontol., Univ. Pennsylvania) 157 Idol. Standing image, with head-dress, and hands on breast. Black clay. Height, 17 inches.
2019 Japanese Jrnl. Relig. Stud. 46 36 An altar sits on a wooden table in the middle of the front of the room with a standing image of Amida Buddha surrounded by flowers.
standing iron n. Canadian (usually in plural) a twisted metal spike on the collar of a sled dog's harness, to which a ribbon or similar decoration may be attached.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > keeping or affinity with dogs > place to exercise hounds > collars, leads, etc.
linea1000
collar1377
torretc1386
dog collar1485
doghook1528
terret1530
slip1564
dogwhip1583
trash1611
shangan1787
puzzle-peg1789
puzzle1792
shangy1825
leading-strap1856
nosepiece1865
dog tag1882
lead1893
harness1895
silent whistle1923
standing iron1934
1934 P. H. Godsell Arctic Trader 39 Bells jangled as the dogs proudly tossed their massive heads and shook their beribboned standing-irons in the gusty breeze.
1959 J. W. Godsell I was no Lady iv. 64 The fluttering rainbows of ribbons on the standing-irons of the harness.
2010 P. A. McCormack Fort Chipewyan & Shaping of Canad. Hist., 1788–1920s vii. 139 (caption) The dogs are decorated with fancy ‘tapis’ and standing irons.
standing knee n. Shipbuilding a type of knee (knee n. 7a) having the vertical part pointed upwards; opposed to hanging knee n.Cf. earlier standard-knee n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > angular supporting timber
knee1337
hook1611
standardc1620
carling-knee1626
standing knee1726
dagger-knee1850
hanging knee1850
beam-knee1869
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 279 The main Beam had Three Knees at each End, whereof one of them was a standing Knee.
1853 J. W. Griffiths Ship-builder's Man. v. 164/1 The ship is to have no standing knees.
2001 S. McGrail Boats of World v. 236/2 These beams..were fastened to the planking by hanging and standing knees.
standing ladder n. a ladder that rests on its feet when used; cf. sense A. 9b.
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1579 S. Novimola Despauterii Grammaticæ Institutionis Lib. VII (new ed.) iii. 96 Scalæ, standand ledderis.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. vii. 131 A kind of wooden Machine..formed like a standing Ladder.
1836 Spectator 17 Sept. 892/2 Could not a..hose be screwed on the mains, which being carried up a standing ladder, might pour the whole contents of the main upon a burning floor?
2005 Halifax (Nova Scotia) Daily News (Nexis) 13 May 2 We Irish are..a notoriously superstitious lot, ever mindful..of perilous adventures, like walking under a standing ladder.
standing O n. (also standing O.) colloquial (originally and chiefly North American) short for standing ovation n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > applause > [noun] > with audience standing
standing ovation1902
standing O1970
1970 J. Bouton Ball Four v. 168 And when they announced his name before the game he got a standing O, which is an ovation.
1979 Washington Post 2 Apr. b1/1 The crowd jumped so eagerly to its feet for the standard standing O that Olivier..gestured for everybody to sit down.
2001 K. Izzo & C. Marsh Fabulous Girl's Guide to Decorum (2002) 100 It is wise to reserve the standing O for those performances that you felt were stellar.
standing ovation n. a round of applause during which those seated stand up as a sign of sustained and enthusiastic praise or approval.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > applause > [noun] > with audience standing
standing ovation1902
standing O1970
1902 Gunton's Mag. Nov. 395 Senator T. C. Platt..received a standing ovation from the audience.
1971 H. Wilson Labour Govt. xxvii. 564 At the end there was a spontaneous and wild standing ovation.
2015 Daily Express 22 May 63/2 The standing ovations accorded Joe Root and Ben Stokes were acknowledgements of the way they took the fight to New Zealand.
standing pie n. now chiefly historical a pie with a free-standing crust, made and baked without the support of a dish or mould; a raised pie.Typically filled with meat and (esp. in later use) eaten cold.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > other pies
crustade?c1390
flampointc1390
custardc1450
standing pie1587
pudding pie1593
French pie1611
pirog1662
battalia pie1664
tourte1706
custard pie1729
raised pie1740
sea-pie1751
cream pie1816
pot-pie1823
scrap-pie1829
resurrection pie1831
chess pie1860
Washington pie1878
milk tart1896
angel pie1923
chiffon pie1929
melktert1938
plate pie1946
banoffi pie1974
banoffi1994
1587 T. Dawson Good Huswifes Iewell (new ed.) f. 13 Take a gammon of Baken... Close him vp in a standing pie, bake him and so serue him.
1693 E. Settle New Athenian Comedy 21 Not but a young Cook may add one corne of salt, and one grain of spice to an old standing Pye, But in short the Original Dish is all his own.
1822 Morning Chron. 17 Jan. At Christmas the hearts of the labouring poor..were gladdened by the distribution of four fat oxen, numerous large standing pies, and a quantity of other good cheer.
1912 J. D. Bacon Inheritance xiv. 199 I can see that table now : the great ‘standing pie’, the curry of Yorkshire ham the Captain compounded with turned-back cuffs, the plovers' eggs in aspic.
2012 J. Struthers Bk. Christmas 140 Standing pies were massive and complex affairs, the ingredients encased within a thick pastry crust.
standing pillars n. the door posts of a carriage or (in later use) a motor vehicle.rare after early 20th cent.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > specific frame timbers
standard1669
standing pillars1791
waist-rail1884
1791 World 27 Jan. (advt.) All the elegant high-finished stock in trade, of Mr. Thomas Howard, coach-maker, a bankrupt... Standing pillars, mahogany pannel board, and various other effects.
1837 W. B. Adams Eng. Pleasure Carriages 88 In the central portion of the bottom sides are framed the door posts, called ‘standing pillars’.
1934 Automobile Engineer July 272/2 The cant rails..run in one piece from front to back, terminating at the rear end at the back standing pillars. From the tops of these standing pillars corner pieces are run to join up with the back top rail.
standing press n. (a) Bookbinding a screw press with a heavy base used to press the pages of a book together; (b) an exercise in which a person raises a weight, such as a barbell or a dumb-bell, above the head.
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1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 352 He puts them into the Standing Press,..observing to set in every Pile..an equal number of Books, that each Pile may equally feel the force of the Screw.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1643/1 Pawl-press, a standing press used by book-binders and printers for pressing sheets, etc.
1953 Physical Educ. 45 Other fundamental weight-lifting exercises are the press on bench, snatch, pull-over, standing press and some form of back extension exercise.
2007 R. Dos Remedios Power Training xiv. 141/1 Even movements like standing presses and bentover rows require substantial core strength to stabilize during these exercises.
2013 Sunshine Coast (Queensland) Daily (Nexis) 11 June 20 The process of bookbinding began with folding and collating pages. The folded pages went into a standing press.
standing salt n. historical a large, often ornate salt cellar formerly placed in the middle of a dining table; cf. salt n.1 7a, 7b.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > vessel for sprinkling sugar, pepper, or salt > salt-cellar
saltfatc1000
salera1400
salt cellar1434
salt1493
drum salt1537
trencher salt1615
scroll salt1630
trencher salt cellar1681
standing salt1826
salt-sprinkler1864
salt-stand1869
salt-shaker1895
1826 S. W. Singer Dramatic Wks. Shakespeare IV. 17 (note) The company at great tables were divided according to their rank into higher and lower messes. Those of lower condition sitting below the great standing salt in the centre of the table.
1931 E. Wenham Domest. Silver v. 42 The imposing standing-salts.., from the Middle Ages to the third quarter of the seventeenth century, were the symbols of social distinction.
2013 B. C. Wees & M. H. Harvey Early Amer. Silver in Metrop. Mus. Art 123 Underscoring their elevated status, many standing salts are larger than necessary for the small quantity of salt that they hold.
standing seam n. Building a raised interlocking seam which joins two adjacent metal roof panels; frequently as a modifier.
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1867 Freedom's Champion (Atchison City, Kansas) 1 Aug. He has just received one of ‘Fay's Patent Standing Seam Tin Roofing Machines’.
2018 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 12 Sept. 1 D'Astice proposed a series of amendments in an attempt to cut out $720,000 worth of expenses from the project, such as..$80,000 for a standing seam roof instead of a shingled one.
standing strake n. Nautical †(a) a garboard strake which has a steep upward angle (obsolete); (b) a heavy strake of planking fastened through its width to a timber along its lower edge (now historical).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > planking > each continuous line of planking > others
standing strake1607
garboardc1617
bottom planks1724
stealer1805
stealing-strake1830
futtock-plank1846
bilge-plank1867
bottom boarding1869
1607 W. Raleigh Lett. (1999) 302 We are forced to lye or trye in them with our main course and mizen, which, with a deep keel and standing streak, she would perform.
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 102 Some ships are built, with a standing strake, or two, that is, when there is the whole bredth of a planck or two, rising from the keele, before they come to the floare timbers.
1884 H. Hall Rep. Ship-building Industry U.S. iii. 121 A binding and a standing strake, each 6 by 12 inches, were fitted close to the bilge log.
2013 W. L. Crothers Amer.-built Packets & Freighters 1850s xvii. 226/1 Most ships were built with one standing strake surmounting the waterway,..but fully one-third of the ships listed herein had two standing strakes in the tween decks ceiling.
C4. In senses of branch A. III.† standing measure n. Obsolete a standard unit of measurement; spec. a standard unit of monetary value.In later use often with reference to the collocation as it appears in the work of philosopher John Locke. Cf. quot. 1692.
standing charge n. chiefly British and Irish English. a fixed fee or payment; spec. a fixed surcharge paid for access to a service or product, esp. to a utility company, in addition to usage charges.
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1711 Address to Queen (Governor, Council & Assembly Mass. Bay) 17 Oct. in Cal. State Papers: Colonial Ser.: Amer. & W. Indies 1711–12 (1925) 115 The distressing circumstances of your Majesty's good subjects of this Province so greatly impoverished and enfeebled by the war and at a constant standing charge for the defence of the inland frontiers.
1827 Bristol Mercury 12 Feb. Is it expected that the same amount of taxes, of tithes, of parochial rates, and other standing charges can then be paid?
1894 Scotsman 7 Sept. 7/2 As regarded the expenditure for the coming year, he said it was £40,138, more than half of which was for standing charges.
1937 Manch. Guardian 26 Oct. 5/1 One-roomed houses with scullery attached, and let at an exclusive rental of 5s. 9d. per week, including a standing charge of 8d. for electricity.
2018 Bolton News (Nexis) 17 Dec. I have contacted my suppliers to ask why we have to pay these standing charges which can, over the year, add almost £100 to the bills.
standing committee n. a permanent committee appointed by an administrative or legislative body to deal with all matters within a particular sphere.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > other types of committee
committee1571
council of war1590
special committee1606
standing committeea1632
Committee of Safety1642
working party1744
finance committee1783
Board (also Court) of county commissioners1806
business committee1825
national committee1826
watch committee1835
working group1888
Central Committee1917
action committee1918
action group1927
ombuds-committee1964
PESC1969
a1632 H. Elsynge Expedicio Billarum Antiquitus (1954) 23 Even this doth prove that there was one Standing Committee for all Bills in parlement.
1749 J. Edwards Let. 6 Dec. in New Eng. Q. (1928) 1 238 A standing Committee of nineteen men..to oversee and manage the affair affectually.
1820 Times 20 Nov. 2/5 A standing committee was appointed to watch over the public affairs [of Spain] during the prorogation, and to lay its report before the legislative body at its meeting in 1821.
1967 J. D. Lees Comm. Syst. U.S. Congr. ii. 5 Standing committees..are permanent committees that continue from Congress to Congress.
2006 Australian (Brisbane) 28 July 5/1 The Standing Committee of Attorneys-General yesterday disagreed on moves to make it more difficult for companies to call extraordinary general meetings.
standing joke n. a person who or thing that regularly causes amusement or ridicule.standing jest: see sense A. 17c.
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1715 J. Addison Drummer Prol. Round-heads and Wooden-shooes are standing Jokes.
1864 C. Knight Passages Working Life I. i. 109 This is the standing joke nightly repeated.
1966 Southern Folklore Q. 30 230 The husband who stayed and put up with it all became a Monkey Man and a standing joke.
2014 Derby Tel. (Nexis) 29 Apr. 14 It is a standing joke among my friends and colleagues that, for me, holiday means a trip down the M5 to Cornwall.
standing lottery n. a lottery with a single drawing on a specified date, as contrasted with one that holds drawings on a daily basis.historical after the 17th cent.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > type of
Ragmana1393
lottery general1567
standing lottery1613
malt lottery1697
little go1795
great go1809
tombola1835
Tattersall1895
golden goal1968
1613 By His Maiesties Councell for Virginia (single sheet) The aduenturers to Uirginia..haue published a little standing Lotterie, consisting but of 12. pence for euery Lot.
1746 W. Harris Ware's Writers of Ireland ii. vi. 353 in tr. J. Ware Wks. conc. Ireland II He soon after..printed several Books... All which..were carried on and sold by Way of Standing Lotteries.
1937 Geogr. Jrnl. 90 531 Gregory King's first step was to organize..a standing lottery in London and another in Bristol.
2006 D. G. Schwartz Roll Bones vi. 125 The [Virginia] Company continued to promote lotteries, beginning a ‘running’ or ‘ring’ lottery that, unlike the standing lotteries conducted in London, would be held in various towns.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > [noun] > that by which one measures > an authorized measuring standard
assizea1400
standard1424
gaugec1450
stint1485
stand1550
standing measure1556
Johansson1918
1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 80 As I learned before, a degree is no standynge measure, but a rate of proportion, and dothe betoken the 360. parte of anye cyrcle.
1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 60 The value of any thing, compar'd with its self, or with a standing Measure.
1882 G. M. Weston Money ii. 31 Money is not a ‘standing measure’ like a bushel, but it is a measure by being the accepted medium of exchange for which everything is sold.
standing rent n. a fixed sum paid as rent; (in later use chiefly U.S.) a rent on land paid as a fixed amount of produce instead of money (now historical).
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1632 T. Reeve Nabals Arraignem. in Churches Hazard 52 He is not the sole proprietary of his goods, for God hath reserved (as it were) a standing rent of euery mans estate for the poore.
1807 T. Jefferson Let. 31 Oct. in Writings (1853) V. 208 From the Louisiana standing rent of one-tenth, and the offer of one-tenth for Indiana mine, I suspect that one-fifth may be too much for a permanent rent.
1982 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 42 329 Fixed-payment land rental might call for payment in money (‘cash rent’) or crops (‘standing rent’).
standing rule n. = standing order n. 1a, 1c, and 1b.
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1606 T. Hutton 2nd Pt. Reasons for Refusall i. 8 At any time will a Minister vary from the standing rule.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. v. §3 He layes this down as a standing rule among them.
1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes ii. 42 The Decisions of Judges..are made the standing Rules.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at March F ff 3/1 It is a standing rule in column, that every regiment should march with the same front, that the regiment does which precedes it.
1913 Aberdeen Daily Jrnl. 1 Nov. (Second ed.) 3/7 Is there a standing rule that the Corporation employees are prevented during their own hours..from taking any employment for the purpose of adding to their income?
2002 S. Turow Reversible Errors (2003) 58 In the P.A.'s office, there was a standing rule: once you touched a case it was yours.
Derivatives
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adverb]
usantlyc1450
coursably1483
vulgarly1617
standingly1637
habituallya1682
1637 T. Drant Royall Guest Ep. Ded. sig. A3v What your eares grac't with a liking in the passage, these sheetes speake to your eyes, but more standingly, my hopes are blest, if I please both sences.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 460 They used to pray, at the third, the sixth, the ninth houre,..standingly, besides other times and houres occasionally.
a1680 T. Goodwin Of Constit. Govt. Churches of Christ (1696) vii. vi. 347 Now the Lord's day and other occasional Ordinances meet but occasionally, but those that are conti[n]ual are standingly yoked together with it, and meet by mere Institution.
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