Stand Up

Definition: Stand Up

Stand Up

Verb

1. Rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded".

2. Refuse to back down; remain solid under criticism or attack.

3. Put into an upright position; "Can you stand the bookshelf up?".

4. Be standing; be upright; "We had to stand for the entire performance!".

5. Defend against attack or criticism;"He stood up for his friend"; "She stuck up for the teacher who was accused of harassing the student".

6. Resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.; "Her shoes won't hold up"; This theory won't hold water".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Stand Up

Approbation

Stand up for, stick up for; uphold, hold up, countenance, sanction; clap on the back, pat on the back; keep in countenance, indorse; give credit, recommend; mark with a white mark, mark with a stone.

Contention

Free fight, stand up fight, hand to hand, running fight.

Elevation

Stand up, rise up, get up, jump up; spring to one's feet; hold oneself, hold one's head up; drawn oneself up to his full height.

Resistance

Verb: resist; not submit; repugn, reluct, reluctate, withstand; stand up against, strive against, bear up under, bear up against, be proof against, make head against; stand, stand firm, stand one's ground, stand the brunt of, stand out; hold one's grounds, hold one's own, hold out, hold firm.

Verticality

Verb: be vertical; Adjective: stand up, stand on end, stand erect, stand upright; stick up,Verb: be vertical; Adjective: stand up, stand on end, stand erect, stand upright; stick up, cock up.

Vindication

Advocate, defend, plead one's cause; stand up for, stick up for, speak up for; contend for, speak for; bear out, keep in countenance, support; plead say in defense; plead ignorance; confess and avoid, propugn, put in a good word for.

Crosswords: Stand Up

Stand up and see for yourself (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

If we don't stand up for the kooks, who will (The Iron Giant; writing credit: Brad Bird)

Who now has the strength to stand up against both Saruman and Sauronand the union of the two towers (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

I stand up for sense and justice (Sleepy Hollow; writing credit: Kevin Yagher)

When an alibi is full of bourbon, sir, it can't stand up. (Strangers on a Train; writing credit: Raymond Chandler; Whitfield Cook)

I will stand up for you no matter what you are going through, (Still On Your Side; performing artist: BBMak)

Just can't stand up for fallin' apart (The Flame; performing artist: Cheap Trick; writing credit: Bob Mitchell and Nick Graham)

They make you stand up (In France; performing artist: Frank Zappa)

And I'd gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today (God Bless the USA; performing artist: Lee Greenwood)

This time I'm 'a stand up and shout (My Way; performing artist: Limp Bizkit)

Stand Up and Fight (1939)

America Stand Up (2003)

Custer's Last Stand Up (2001)

Get Up Stand Up Comedy (2001)

Stand Up with Alan Davies (2000)

Get Up, Stand Up (performing artist: Steve Marriott)

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Books

• Stand Up for Your Life 2003 Calendar (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• VeggieTales - Heroes of the Bible - Stand Up, Stand Tall, Stand Strong! (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Stand Up (reference)

• Stand Up [Bonus Tracks] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• Stand Up Now (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Conair CID 154GT Sport Design Stand Up with CID (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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B. anthracis Colony Characteristics: A. Consistency sticky (tenacious). When teased with loop, colony will stand up like beaten egg white. Credit: CDC.

Chinese people stand up. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1962)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He could stand up, put one foot before the other and walk out softly and then run, run, run swiftly through the dark streets

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Health

For the majority of patients, blood pressure is low when the patients stand up and high when the patients lie down. Other symptoms that may develop include impaired speech, difficulties with breathing and swallowing, and inability to sweat. (references)

Business

In order to fit customer needs, some manufacturers are also introducing height-adjustable worktops that are particularly suited for one-to-one stand up discussions. (references)

Human Rights

Venezuela

Before Ferrer could stand up to provide his identification card, a Guard member beat him. (references)

Pakistan

The judiciary, on the other hand, faults the police for presenting weak cases that do not stand up in court. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "stand up": stand up against ♦ Stand up and walk ♦ stand up fight ♦ stand up for ♦ stand up for oneself ♦ stand up straight ♦ stand up to ♦ stand up to smb. ♦ stand up with ♦ stand up with a spring ♦ To stand up ♦ To stand up for. Additional references.

Afrikaans

opstaan (arise, ascend, get, get up, go up, lift, rise, stand). (various references)

Albanian

stendë (board, hoarding, rack, scute, scutum, stall), qëndrueshmëri (constancy, durability, firmness, fixity, lasting, permanence, permanency, resistance, stability, stamina), ngrihem (ascend, get up, jump, overlook, proceed, raise, regelate, revolt, rise, stand, stand up to, take off, take wing, tower, turn out, upheave), i drejtë (candid, correct, direct, disinterested, downright, equitable, erect, even, fair, impartial, just, kosher, lank, regular, right, Square, straight, straightaway, true, upright, upstanding, virtuous, white), çohem (rise, start up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مستقيم (correct, direct, erect, honest, right, straight, straightforward, through, upright), ‏نهض (arise, arisen, arose, awake, get up, raise, rise, turn out, uplift), ‏قام (depart, get up, rise, show a leg), ‏قاوم البلى, ‏وقف منتصبا (square, stand at attention, stand erect), ‏وقف (bait, bristle, carry, cessation, check, come to a halt, devote, discontinuation, disposal, get up, halt, pause, pull up, refraining, rise, severance, stand, stasis, stood, stoppage, stopping), ‏واجه (be faced with, be facing, brave, confront, cope, encounter, experience, face, head, manage, meet, pull faces, shoulder, square, stand up to), ‏تزوج (espouse, get married, hitch, join, knot, marry, marry off, take the plunge, wed), ‏على نحو ثابت (habitually, indelible), ‏إنتصب (rear, recover, sit up, stick, straighten up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стоя прав (stand), ставам на крака, оставям валиден, опъвам се (demur, jib, kick, stick up to smb., strain at), не се явявам на среща, зарязвам (abandon, cut out, drop off, overboard, pack in, put away, put on the shelf, quit, run out, throw over, throw up, walk out on), противопоставям се на (dare), прав (continuous, direct, erect, flat, forehanded, right, standing, straight, swerveless, undeviating, unseated, upright, upstanding), изправям (detect, erect, peak, planish, put up, raise, rectify, remedy, repair, right, righten, set right, straighten, true, uncurl, unkink), изправен (erect, go, soldierlike, soldierly, straight, upright, upstanding), издържам на (outride, ride out). (various references)

Chinese 

起來 (beginning or continuing an action, upward movement), 翻身 (free oneself, turn over). (various references)

Czech

vstát (get out of bed, get up, uprise). (various references)

Danish

stå op (get up, rise, stand). (various references)

Dutch

zich voordoen (attitudinize, get up, pose, put on airs, rise, stand), opstaan (arise, ascend, cook, get up, go up, lift, rise, stand), gaan staan (get up, rise, stand). (various references)

Esperanto

stariĝi (get up, rise, stand), ekstari (get up, rise, stand). (various references)

Faeroese

fara á føtur (get up, rise, stand). (various references)

Finnish

nousta seisomaan (rise), nousta seisaalleen (rise), nousta pystyyn (get up, rise), nousta (arise, get into, get up, increase, rise, take off). (various references)

French

sursauter (stand, start), surgir (stand, stick), se tenir debout (stand, stand still), se redresser (sit up straight, straighten), se lever (stand), se dresser (stand, stand erect, stick), résister (stand, stand up to, struggle), faire face, être garçon d'honneur. (various references)

Frisian

oandoare (dare, dare to fight, stand up to, venture). (various references)

German

sich stellen (confront, face, get up, give oneself up, go and stand, position oneself, pretend, rise, set itself, stand, surrender), aufstehen (arise, be open, get down, get off, get up, rise, stand, stand on, to arise, to arise (arose, to get up, to rise, to stand up, uprise). (various references)

Greek 

σηκώνομαι (arise, get up, rise), ορθώνομαι. (various references)

Hebrew 

לקום (arise, get up, happen, rise, set upon, take place), לעמו�" זקוף, עומ�" (about to, going to, intending, platform, post, stand, standing, standing place), זקוף (erect, on end, sit up, standing, straight, upright, upstanding). (various references)

Hungarian

feláll (get up, Marshal, rise, stand, to erect, to get on one's feet, to get up, to up, to upend, up). (various references)

Indonesian

terdiri (consist, consist of, endwise, suddenly stand up), mendirikan (build, cause to stand up, erect, establish, found). (various references)

Inuktitut

nikuvittuq (to stand up). (various references)

Italian

levarsi (arise, get up, rise, take off, uprise), drizzarsi (rise, straighten), alzarsi (arise, get, get up, heave, rise, shoot up, spring up, stand, stir), alzare (erect, get up, heave, Jack, lever, lift, lift up, pick up, put up, raise, rear, to raise, turn up, up, uplift), accanito (acrimonious, bitter, dogged, exacerbates, hard, hardy, obstinate, pitiless, rancorous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

蹶起 (jump to one's feet, rising to action, stand up against), 逆立つ (to oppose, to stand up), 腰が抜ける (to be paralyzed, to be unable to stand up), 突っ立つ (to stand up), 立ち上がる (to stand up), 立ち並ぶ (to be equal to, to line in a row, to stand up), 振り立てる (to raise one's voice, to stand up energetically, to toss, to wave), 決起 (jump to one's feet, rising to action, stand up against), 大地�'踏まえて立つ (stand up on the ground). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たちならぶ (to be equal to, to line in a row, to stand up), たちあがる (to stand up), さか� つ (to oppose, to stand up), ふりたてる (to raise one's voice, to stand up energetically, to toss, to wave), つったつ (to stand up), けっき (ardor, ardour, jump to one's feet, rising to action, stand up against, vigor, vigour). (various references)

Malay

bangkit (get up, rise, stand). (various references)

Manx

irree (accrue, ascent; passion, climb, emotion, get off, get up, heave, levee, lift, lilt, rise, step up, swarm, take off, take off as plane, tip, turn out). (various references)

Maya

wa'al (to stand up). (various references)

Pig Latin

andstay upay.(various references)

Polish

przeciwstawiać się (confront, stand up to, withstand). (various references)

Portuguese

levantar-se (arise, get up, rise, rising, set out, stagemanage, stand, upheave), elevar-se (aspire, loom, rise, soar), elevar (advance, aggrandize, elate, elevate, enhance, erect, get up, heave, heighten, increase, lever, lift, make, mount, prefer, pump up, raise, rise, set up, up, uplift). (various references)

Romanian

se scula (be up, rise, tumble out), se ridica în picioare, vertical (erect, pedimental, perpendicularly, Plumb, upright, upstanding, vertical, vertically), drept (as, attribution, claim, correct, Dexter, direct, directly, due, end on, endways, equitable, erect, even, evenly, exactly, fair, fairly, for, forthright, honest, just, justice, justly, kind, law, legitimate, patent, permission, plain, point blank, precisely, privilege, real, reasonable, right, right foot, right leg, righteous, Square, stand, straight, straightforward, true, truly, truthful, unprejudiced, upright). (various references)

Russian 

вставать (emerge, get up, rise). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ustati (arise, crawl out, get up, rebel, rise up), uspravan (erect, ortho-, plumb, straight, upright, upstanding, vertical), ne doći, koji stoji, koji se radi stojećki, biti prihvatljiv (wash). (various references)

Spanish

levantarse (arise, break up, get up, getup, lift, pant, pick oneself up, raise, raise oneself, rise, run high, set in, stand, tip up, tumble out, turn out, uprise). (various references)

Swedish

stå upp, uppstående, resa sig (get up, pick oneself up, rear up, rebel, rise, tower), regelrätt (correct, regular, technical), på stående fot. (various references)

Turkish

sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), savunmak (advocate, argue, argue for smth., assert, champion, declare oneself, defend, fence, fight, justify, line up with, plead, protect, stand up for, stick up for, vindicate), dik dik olmak, ayağa kalkmak (alight on one's feet, arise, get on, rise, stand), ayaküstü alınan, ayakta yapılan (standing), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), bekletmek (hang on, keep smb. waiting, wait), ağaç etmek, dik (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bold, erect, horny, jagged, perpendicular, precipitous, rapid, right, rough, scarped, sheer, Square, steep, stiff, straight, up, upright, uprightly, upstanding, vertical), yılmamak (keep one's pecker up, soldier on), dikilmek (be planted, be sewn, stand, stand on, stand upon, stick up), kalkık (erect, raised, tip-tilted, turnup, upright, upturned), kalkmak (arise, get a hard on, get up, have a hard on, leave, lift, lift off, pull, pull away, pull away from the kerb, rise, stand on, stand upon, start, straighten, straighten up, take off), taraftarı olmak (stand up for, support), dayanmak (abut, be based on, be predicated on, bear up, bear up against, bear with, Brook, consist, endure, found, go on, ground, hang, hang on, hinge on, hold, hold on, hold one's own, hold out, hold up, last, lean, lean upon, offer resistance, osculate, put up with, rely on, rely upon, repose, repose on, resist, rest, rest against, root in, stand, stand on, stand the racket, stand upon, stay, stick, stick it, stick out, survive, sweat out, take, take it, thole, tolerate, trace, wear, withstand). (various references)

Turkmen 

turmak (awake), gobsynmak (raise oneself). (various references)

Ukrainian

вставати (arise, get up, rise, uprise), підніматися у гору. (various references)

Zulu

-sukuma (get up, rise, stand). (various references)

adstabant, adstabit, adstabo, adstans, adstantes, adstanti, adstantibus, adstantium, adstat, adstetit, adstiterunt, adstitit, adsurrexisse, astet. (various references)

astandan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dustpan, standup, upstand.

-1 letter: daunts.

-2 letters: adust, aunts, daunt, dauts, dunts, pants, punas, punts, sputa, stand, stupa, tunas, unapt.

-3 letters: ands, ants, anus, aunt, daps, daut, duns, dunt, dups, dust, naps, nuts, pads, pans, pant, past, pats, puds, puna, puns, punt, puts, sand, snap, span, spat, spud, spun, stud, stun, tads, tans, taps, taus, tuna, tuns, tups.

+1 letter: dustpans, upstands.

+2 letters: disputant, supinated.

+3 letters: disputants, outspanned, pantsuited, supplanted, underpants, underparts, unstrapped, upstanding.

+4 letters: cuspidation, deputations, disputation, inaptitudes, pastureland, unaspirated, unseparated.

+5 letters: antependiums, cuspidations, deuteranopes, disputations, duplications, encapsulated, indisputable, indisputably, outspreading, pasturelands, postdiluvian, repudiations, thunderclaps, undisputable.