Stand by

Definition

stand /stænd / v ( pt, pp stood /stƱd / stod/ ၁။ မတ္တတ္ရပ္ သည္။ မၿပိဳလဲဘဲ တည္ေနသည္။ ရပ္သည္။ She was too weak to stand. ❍ After the bombing only a few houses were left standing. ❍ Don't just stand there—help your mother with her bags! ❍ I was standing only a few feet away. ❍ Stand still while I take your photograph. ❍ flamingos standing on one leg ❍ We all stood about in the corridor waiting. ၂။ ~ (up) မတ္တတ္ရပ္သည္။ ထသည္။ Everyone stood when the President entered. ❍ We stood up in order to see better. ၃။ ေထာင္သည္။ မတ္တတ္ ရပ္ေစသည္။ Don't stand cans of petrol near the fire. ❍ I stood the little girl on a chair so that she could see out of the window. ❍ Stand the ladder up against the wall. ၄။ ျမင့္သည္။ The tower stands 60 metres high. ၅။ တည္ သည္။ ရိွသည္။ a clock standing on the mantelpiece ❍ A tall poplar tree once stood here. ❍ Further up the road stands St John's Chruch. ၆။ ရပ္ေနသည္။ the train standing at platform 3 ❍ The car stood at the traffic lights for a few moments, then moved off. ၇။ (ေရ၊ အရည္စသည္) မစီးဘဲေနသည္။ (အရည္အေဖ်ာ္ စသည္ကို) အသာထားသည္။ standing pools of rainwater ❍ Mix the batter and let it stand for twenty minutes. ၈။ တည္သည္။ မူတည္သည္။ The agreement must stand (ie can not be altered or cancelled). ❍ My offer still stands. ❍ His argument stands or falls on (ie is valid or fails depending on the truth of) the assertion that a language must be shared. ၉။ (က) (အေျခအေနတစ္စံုတစ္ရာတြင္)ရိွသည္။ The house has stood empty for months. ❍ The emergency services stand ready to help if necessary. ❍ She now stood convicted of fraud. ❍ ‘You're wrong about the date—it was 1988. ’ ‘I stand corrected (ie I accept that I was mistaken). ’ မွားေၾကာင္းဝန္ခံသည္။ ❍ I never know where I stand with Tracey—one minute she's friendly, the next she hardly speaks to me. ❍ As things stand, there is little chance of a quick settlement of the dispute. (ခ) ~ at sth (၌၊ မွာ၊ တြင္၊ ဝယ္)ရိွသည္။ The church clock still stands at ten to four. ❍ Interest rates stand at an attractive 9%. ၁၀။ အလားအလာရိွသည္။ stand to win/lose/gain ❍ You stand to make a lot of money from this deal. ၁၁။ ရပ္တည္သည္။ Where do you stand (ie What is your opinion) on these issues? ❍ stand firm against powerful pressure groups. ၁၂။ (အျငင္းဝါက်မ်ား၌) သည္းခံသည္၊ ခံသည္။ He can't stand hot weather. ❍ I can't stand his mother! ❍ His heart won't stand the strain much longer. ❍ He can't stand being kept waiting. ❍ I can't stand people interrupting all the time. ၁၃။ ဒကာခံသည္။ stand drinks all round ❍ She was kind enough to stand us a meal. ၁၄။ ( esp Brit ) (also esp US run ) ~ (for sth) (ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္)ဝင္အေရြးခံသည္။ stand for parliament ❍ stand for President ❍ She stood unsuccessfully in the local elections. See also STANDING n ၁။ [sing] ရပ္တည္ခ်က္။ She has always taken a firm/strong/tough stand on nuclear disarmament. ၂။ [C usu sing ] ခုခံတိုက္ခိုက္မႈ။ ႀကံ႕ႀကံ႕ခံရပ္တည္ခ်က္။ the rebels' last stand ❍ The troops made a brave stand against the enemy. ❍ The time has come to make a stand on the issue of environmental pollution. ၃။ [ C ] စင္၊ ခံု စသည္ တင္စရာ၊ ထားစရာ။ an umbrella stand ❍ a cake stand ❍ a matching stand for your video recorder. See also MUSIC STAND ၄။ [C] (က) ဆိုင္ခန္း။ ဆိုင္ကနား။ set up a market-stand. See also NEWS-STAND (ခ) ကုန္ပစၥည္း တင္၍ ျပသထားသည့္စင္။ one of the stands at a book fair. ၅။ [ C often pl ] (အားကစားကြင္း၊ ႐ံုရိွ)ပြဲၾကည့္စင္။ A cheer rose from the south stand. ❍ FOOT BALL See also GRANDSTAND ၆။ [C usu sing ] ( US ) (တရားခြင္တြင္) သက္ေသထြက္ဆိုရာ၌ မတ္တတ္ရပ္ ေနရာယူရေသာ ေနရာ။ Please take the stand. ၇။ ( esp US ) အငွားယာဥ္မ်ား ခရီး သည္ေစာင့္ရန္ ေနရာ။ (တကၠစီ)ဂိတ္။ a taxi stand ❍ a stand for six taxis. See also ONE-NIGHT STAND ❏ on stand-by [ IDM ] အရန္သင့္ (ေနသည္၊ ထားသည္)။ Hendry was put on stand-by for Scotland's last match. ❍ The troops are on 24-hour stand-by (ie ready to move within 24 hours of receiving the order). ❏ stand-alone adj သီးျခားရပ္တည္ႏိုင္သည္။ သီးျခားရပ္တည္ သည္။ stand-alone insurance policies ❍ a stand-alone computer. ❏ stand aside [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေဘးကပ္ေပးသည္။ လမ္းဖယ္ေပး သည္။ She stood aside to let us pass. ၂။ လက္ပိုက္ၾကည့္ သည္။ Don't stand aside and let others do all the work. ❏ stand back (from sth) [ PHRV ] ၁။ ဆုတ္ေပးသည္။ The police ordered the crowd to stand back (from the building). ၂။ လွမ္းလွမ္းတြင္ တည္ရိွသည္။ The house stands back a little (from the road). ❏ stand by [ PHRV ] ၁။ လက္ပိုက္ၾကည့္သည္။ How can you stand by and let him treat his dog like that? ၂။ အရန္သင့္ေနသည္။ The troops are standing by. See also stand-by ❏ stand-by n ( pl -bys ) အရန္။ အေရးေပၚသံုး။ a stand-by electricity generator ❍ A plain dark suit is a reliable stand-by for most formal occasions. ❏ stand by sb [ PHRV ] တစ္စံုတစ္ဦးဘက္မွ ရပ္တည္သည္။ ကူညီ႐ိုင္းပင္းသည္။ I'll stand by you whatever happens. ❏ stand by sth [ PHRV ] ခိုင္ခိုင္မာမာ ရပ္တည္သည္။ She still stands by every word she said. ❏ stand-by ticket n ေလယာဥ္တစ္ေခါက္စာ ခရီးသည္ မျပည့္သည့္အခါသက္သာေသာေဈးႏႈန္း ျဖင့္ လိုက္ႏိုင္ရန္ ႀကိဳတင္စာရင္းသြင္းထား သူ ရရိွသည့္ လက္မွတ္။ အေစာင္ ေလယာဥ္ လက္မွတ္။ ❏ stand down [ PHRV ] ၁။ ႏုတ္ထြက္သည္။ ဖယ္ေပးသည္။ The President is standing down after five years in office. ၂။ (esp US ) သက္ေသထြက္ဆိုၿပီး၍ သက္ေသခံရာေနရာမွ ထြက္ခြာသည္။ ❏ stand for sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ …အတြက္ အတိုေကာက္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ‘The book's by T C Smith. ’ ‘What does (the) ‘T C’ stand for?’ ၂။ ကိုယ္စားျပဳသည္။ I reject fascism and all it stands for. ၃။ ရပ္တည္သည္။ a party that stands for racial tolerance. ၄။ ( infml ) (အျငင္းဝါက်မ်ား၌) သည္းခံ သည္။ ခံသည္။ I won't stand for any more of your rudeness! ❍ I'm not standing for it any longer. ❏ stand-in n (အထူးသျဖင့္စတန္႔႐ိုက္ကြက္႐ိုက္ရာ တြင္ ဇာတ္ေဆာင္၏ေနရာ)အစားဝင္ေပးသူ။ ❏ stand in (for sb) [ PHRV ] အစားဝင္ေပးသည္။ My assistant will stand in for me while I'm away. See also STAND-IN ❏ stand-off n ( esp US ) လိပ္ခဲတည္းလည္း အေျခအေန။ a stand-off between management and uions. ❏ stand out (from/against sth) [ PHRV ] ထင္ေပၚသည္။ ထင္းေနသည္။ ထင္ရွားသည္။ အလြန္သိသာသည္။ She's the sort of person who stands out in a crowd. ❍ The bright lettering stands out well from/against the dark background. ❍ You must realize that he's not being honest with you—it stands out a mile (ie very clearly)! ❏ stand out (from sb/sth) [ PHRV ] ပိုမိုေပၚလြင္သည္။ In a long career, certain memories stand out from the rest. ❏ stand out for sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ႀကံ႕ႀကံ႕ခံသည္။ ေပခံ ေနသည္။ The nurses have been offered a 5% pay rise, but they're still standing out for 7%. ❏ stand over sb [ PHRV ] ႀကီးၾကပ္သည္။ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္သည္။ I don't like you standing over me while I am cooking. ❏ stand-up adj ၁။ (က) ပရိသတ္ေရွ႕ေမွာက္ မတ္တတ္ရပ္ရင္း ျပက္လံုးတစ္ခုၿပီးတစ္ခုထုတ္ေသာ လက္တန္း(လူရႊင္ေတာ္)။ a stand-up comic. (ခ) ျပက္လံုးသက္သက္ တင္ဆက္ေသာ။ a stand-up comedy routine. ၂။ ( esp Brit ) ေတ့ေတ့ဆိုင္ဆိုင္ (ရန္ပြဲ)။ I had a stand-up row with my boss today. ၃။ မိုးတိုးမတ္တတ္ စားရေသာ(ထမင္းစားပြဲ)။ a stand-up buffet. ❏ stand sb up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ခ်စ္သူႏွင့္ခ်ိန္းၿပီးမွ လာ မေတြ႕ဘဲထားသည္။ She was meant to be going out with Adam last night, but she stood him up. ❏ stand up for sb/oneself/sth [ PHRV ] ရပ္တည္ေပးသည္။ ရပ္တည္သည္။ Always stand up for your friends. ❍ You must stand up for yourself/your rights. ❏ stand up (to sth) [ PHRV ] မွတ္ေက်ာက္ အတင္ခံႏိုင္သည္။ အစစ္အေဆး ခံႏိုင္စြမ္းသည္။ His argument simply doesn't stand up (to close scrutiny). ❍ I'm afraid this document will never stand up in a court of law. ❏ stand up to sb [ PHRV ] မ်က္ႏွာခ်င္းဆိုင္ဝံ့သည္။ ရင္ဆိုင္ ရဲသည္။ It was brave of her to stand up to those bullies. ❏ stand up to sth [ PHRV ] (အၾကမ္းပတမ္း)အသံုးခံသည္။ This carpet is designed to stand up to a lot of wear and tear.

Examples

1. The train was full and we had to stand all the way to Edinburgh.
2. [stand by/at/on/behind etc] : Mrs Carter was standing by the open window.
3. The man standing behind him spoke.
4. [stand with your back to someone/something] : He was standing with his back to her.
5. [stand doing something] : He stood looking at them in silence.
6. [stand and do something] : The children stood and watched.
7. [stand still] : They all stood still and listened to the sound coming from outside.
8. Stand still and let me brush your hair.
9. [stand motionless/transfixed/open-mouthed etc] : She stood transfixed as the man lurched unsteadily across the busy road.
10. The whole courtroom stood as the judge entered.
11. [stand on/in] : He apologized for standing on my foot.
12. I just stood in something disgusting.
13. His statue stands in the city square.
14. Their house stood at the top of a hill.
15. Stand the bookcase against the far wall.
16. [still standing] : The ancient family home is still standing.
17. [left standing] : Only a few homes were left standing after the earthquake.
18. The house stood neglected for nearly 100 years.
19. [stand empty/idle] : The old factory now stood empty.
20. Several ships are standing idle in the port as the dock strike continues.
21. Luckily
22. the train was still standing at the platform.
23. Their father stands well over six feet.
24. The structure stands 40 metres high.
25. [as it stands/as things stand] : As it stands
26. the law doesn’t allow local government to take such action.
27. [where/how something stands] : How do negotiations stand at the moment?
28. [know where you stand (with someone)] : He might seem rude
29. but at least you know where you stand with him.
30. He stood aloof from the daily operations of the office.
31. [stand ready/prepared] : We stand ready to sign any reasonable agreement that you produce.
32. [stand together/united] : So long as we all stand together
33. we’ll win.
34. Her world record has stood for nearly 20 years.
35. [still stands] : Tell him my offer still stands.
36. I can’t stand his lies any more.
37. I won’t stand any more arguing from you.
38. How can you stand all that noise?
39. [stand someone doing something] : I won’t stand them interrupting me all the time.
40. [where someone stands on something] : Where does the Prime Minister stand on this issue?
41. These are plants that do not stand the cold well.
42. [stand the strain] : I didn’t think these boots would stand the strain of such a long walk.
43. She’s not intending to stand at the next election.
44. [stand as] : He’ll be standing as the candidate for Falkirk West.
45. Soil where water stands in the winter
46. [leave/allow something to stand for something] : Leave the mixture to stand for 20 minutes.
47. [stand guard (over someone/something)] : Two men were left standing guard over the prisoners.
48. [stand bail/surety (for someone)] : No one would stand bail for him.
49. He could not leave the country unless the Embassy stood surety for him.
50. [stand someone something] : I’ll stand you a cup of coffee if you’ve no money.