Lean vs Stand - What's the difference?
lean | stand |
To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to'', ''toward , etc.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .
* (1809-1892)
* , chapter=23
, title= To hang outwards.
To press against.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
(of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
(of meat) having little fat.
Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
Of a fuel-air mixture, having more air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; more air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
(printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
* {{quote-magazine
, year=1938
, month=July
, author=Blaine and Dupont Miller
, title=Weather Hop
, page=25
, magazine=Boy's Life
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* {{quote-magazine
, year=2002
, month=July
, author=Tom Benenson
, title=Can Your Engine Run Too Lean?
, volume=129
, issue=7
, page=73
, magazine=Flying
, issn=0015-4806
(lb) To or be positioned physically.
#(lb) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,
#(lb) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
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# To remain motionless.
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#*Bible, (w) ii, 9
#*:The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
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#*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
#(lb) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
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#*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.
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#*:He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom.
#(lb) To place in an upright or standing position.
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#(lb) To occupy or hold a place; to be situated or located.
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#(lb) To measure when erect on the feet.
#* (1809-1892)
#*:Six feet two, as I think, he stands .
(lb) To or be positioned mentally.
# To be positioned to gain or lose.
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# To tolerate.
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#*, chapter=7
, title= #(lb) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
#*Spectator
#*:readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall
#(lb) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
#*Bible, (w) viii. 11
#*:The king granted the Jewsto gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.
#*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
#*:the standing pattern of their imitation
# To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
#*Bible, (w) ix. 10
#*:sacrificeswhich stood only in meats and drinks
#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:Accomplish what your signs foreshow; / I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
#*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
#*:Thou seest how it stands with me, and that I may not tarry.
(lb) To or be positioned socially.
# To act as an umpire.
#(lb) To undergo; withstand; hold up.
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#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:Love stood the siege.
#*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#*:Bid him disband his legions,/ And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.
#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
#*:He stood the furious foe.
# To seek election.
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#*(Izaak Walton) (c.1594-1683)
#*:He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.
#(lb) To be valid.
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#(lb) To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
#*1957 , (Matt Christopher),
#*:"Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. ¶ "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron.
#* R. J. Childerhose,
#*:The game stopped while sides were sorted out. Andy did the sorting. "Okay," he said. "Jimmy is coming out. He and Gaston and Ike and me will stand you guys."
#*1978 , (Louis Sachar),
#*:"Hey, Louis," Dameon shouted. "Do you want to play kickball?" ¶ ""All right," said Louis. "Ron and I will both play."¶ "Ron and I will stand everybody!" Louis announced.
#To cover the expense of; to pay for.
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#(lb) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
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#(lb) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
#*(Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)
#*:Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing / But what may stand with honour.
#(lb) To appear in court.
#:(Burrill)
Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
*1630 , John Smith, True Travels , in Kupperman 1988, p.40:
*:To repaire his defects, hee stood for the coast of Calabria, but hearing there was six or seven Galleyes at Mesina hee departed thence for Malta.
(lb) To remain without ruin or injury.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:My mind on its own centre stands unmoved.
*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
*:The ruin'd wall / Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.
(lb) To stop asking for more cards.
The act of standing.
*Spectator
*:I took my stand upon an eminenceto look into their several ladings.
A defensive position or effort. (rfex)
A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
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A period of performance in a given location or venue.
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A device to hold something upright or aloft.
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand , and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
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A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
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(lb) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
*1625 , (Francis Bacon), “Of Truth”, Essays
*:One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is at a stand , to think what should be in it, that men should love lies; where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie’s sake.
*1819 , (Lord Byron), , I.168:
*:Antonia's patience now was at a stand — / "Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there," / She whispered
A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I have found you out a stand most fit, / Where you may have such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass you.
The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
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(lb) grandstand (often in plural)
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 11, author=Rory Houston, work=RTE Sport
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*1927 , Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld , Paragon House (1990), ISBN 1-55778-348-9, p.170:
*:The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.
(lb) Rank; post; station; standing.
*(Samuel Daniel) (1562-1619)
*:Father, since your fortune did attain / So high a stand , I mean not to descend.
(lb) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
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A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
(lb) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
(Webster 1913)
As a proper noun lean
is .As a noun stand is
stall, booth, bench, stand (place to sell items or make deals).lean
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; via Proto-Indo-European with climate, cline.Verb
- They delight rather to lean to their old customs.
- He leaned not on his fathers but himself.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
- His fainting limbs against an oak he leant .
Derived terms
* lean back * leaning * lean on * lean-toEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- a lean''' budget; a '''lean harvest
- lean copy, matter, or type
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)citation, passage=He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose. }}
citation, passage=Even the Pilot's Operating Handbooks (POH) for our training airplanes add to our paranoia with their insistence that we not lean the mixture until we're above 5000 feet density altitude. }}
Etymology 3
Icelandic (leyna)?; akin to (etyl) word for "deny". Compare .See also
*References
* *stand
English
Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=“[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand' that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't ' stand is to have them togs called a livery.
Basketball Sparkplug, Ch.7:
Hockey Fever in Goganne Falls, p.95:
Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Ch.21:
Usage notes
* In older works, standen is found as a past participle of this verb; it is now archaic. * (tolerate) This is almost always found in a negative form such as can’t stand', or ' No-one can stand… In this sense it is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (term) or infinitive . See .Derived terms
* bestand * offstand * a leg to stand on * stand alone/stand-alone * stand aside * stand and deliver * stand back * stand by * stand corrected * stand down * stand easy * stand firm * stand for * stand from under * stand guard * stand off/stand-off * stand on * stand on ceremony * stand out * stand over * stand-in * stand in for * * stand on end * * stand pat * stand still * stand tall * stand to reason * stand watch * stand up/stand-up/standup * understand * upstandNoun
(en noun)Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland, passage=The end of the opening period was relatively quite [sic] as Vassiljev's desperate shot from well outside the penalty area flew into the stand housing the Irish supporters and then Ward's ctoss [sic] was gathered by goalkeeper Pareiko.}}
England v West Indies: Hosts cruise home in Lord's Test, passage=England wrapped up a five-wicket victory in the first Test as a stand of 132 between Alastair Cook and Ian Bell saw off an early West Indies charge.}}