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STAND FOR
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tolerate or bear
Example:
I won't stand for this kind of behavior!
Synonyms:
hold still for; stand for
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "stand for" is one way to...):
abide; bear; brook; digest; endure; put up; stand; stick out; stomach; suffer; support; tolerate (put up with something or somebody unpleasant)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
Example:
What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?
Synonyms:
represent; stand for; symbolise; symbolize; typify
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "stand for" is one way to...):
intend; mean (mean or intend to express or convey)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stand for"):
be; embody; personify (represent, as of a character on stage)
epitomise; epitomize; typify (embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Denote or connote
Example:
An example sentence would show what this word means
Synonyms:
intend; mean; signify; stand for
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Verb group:
signify (convey or express a meaning)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stand for"):
denote; refer (have as a meaning)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to
Example:
Because of the sound changes in the course of history, an 'h' in Greek stands for an 's' in Latin
Synonyms:
correspond; represent; stand for
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "stand for" is one way to...):
be; equal (be identical or equivalent to)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Context examples:
As I was getting on the stool opposite, to talk to him more conveniently, I observed that he had not such a thing as a smile about him, and that he could only widen his mouth and make two hard creases down his cheeks, one on each side, to stand for one.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And you're the last above board of that same meddling crew; and you have the Davy Jones's insolence to up and stand for cap'n over me—you, that sank the lot of us!
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I won't stand for it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
'He would not,' he said, 'stand for more than a moment between that vast assembly and the treat which lay before them. It was not for him to anticipate what Professor Summerlee, who was the spokesman of the committee, had to say to them, but it was common rumor that their expedition had been crowned by extraordinary success.'
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"And he says you've got to tear it up. He says he won't have no wife of his with such things written about her which anybody can read. He says it's a disgrace, an' he won't stand for it."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
