Stand Still

Definition: Stand Still

Stand Still

Verb

1. Remain in place; hold still; remain fixed or immobile.

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Permanence

Verb: let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest; stet; hold, hold on; last, endure, bide, abide, aby, dwell, maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast; subsist, live, outlive, survive; hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep one's footing; hold good.

Quiescence

Verb: be quiescent; Adjective: stand still, lie still; keep quiet, repose, hold the breath.

Pause, lull; (cessation); stand still; standing still; Verb: lock; dead lock, dead stop, dead stand; full stop; fix; embargo.

Crosswords: Stand Still

Always stand still until you're done shooting. (Barbarosa; writing credit: William D. Wittliff)

Can't stand Still while the music is playin' (Cherry Cherry; performing artist: Neil Diamond)

Stand still laddy! ("Another Brick in the Wall"; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

Making the Earth Stand Still (1995)

We Can't Stand Still Can We? (1976)

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Books

• Time Pacing: Competing in Markets That Won't Stand Still [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

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[Jerry "Beat to a stand still", Dr. Please 'Em's prescription,...] / Drawn & Engd. by I.R. & G. Cruickshank. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The oyster: The oyster family is not what it was, but we've got the lobster beaten to a stand still. Credit: Library of Congress.

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That made the sun stand still

Albanian

ndalem (break off, call on, drop in, drop off, dwell on, halt, lay off, light, pause, pull up, put up, stand, stop). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تجمد في مكانه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стихвам (drop, hush, lull, moderate, quiet, quiet down, quieten, sink, slacken, still, subside), не мърдам. (various references)

French

se tenir debout (stand, stand up), rester debout (keep standing, stand, stand at attention, stay up). (various references)

German

stehenbleiben (be left, be left behind, come to a standstill, cut out, halt, leave off, stay, stay up, stop). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעמו�" מלכת, לעמו�" ללא � יע�", ל�"ום (be silent). (various references)

Hungarian

nyugodtan marad (to keep still, to stand still). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

立ち止まる (to halt, to stand still, to stop). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たちどまる (to halt, to stand still, to stop). (various references)

Pig Latin

andstay illstay

Romanian

sta nemişcat (lie doggo). (various references)

Russian 

остановиться (come to a halt, stay). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stajati mirno. (various references)

Spanish

estarse quieto (sit tight). (various references)

Turkish

kıpırdamamak (lie doggo, not to move, steady), kımıldamamak (be at a standstill, hold still, keep still, lie still, not to move, sit tight, stay put), hareketsiz kalmak, hareket etmemek (be at a standstill, hold still, steady). (various references)

Ukrainian

зупинятися (alight, bait, draw up, pause, put in, run down, stanch, stay, stop). (various references)

consistant, consistens, consistentes, consistere, consisteret, consistite, consisto, consistunt, constiterant, ecclesiastes, interstetit, praestaturum, sta, stabam, stabant, stabantque, stabat, stabimus, stabis, stabisque, stabit, stabitis, stabitque, stabo, stabunt, stamus, standum, stans, stansque, stant, stante, stantem, stantes, stantibus, stantis, stantium, stare, starent, stares, staret, staretis, stari, stas, stat, state, statis, statu, statum, statura, staturae, staturam, stem, stemus, stent, stes, stet, steterant, steterat, stetere, steterim, steterint, steteris, steterit, steterunt, steteruntque, steti, stetis, stetisse, stetissent, stetisset, stetisti, stetistis, stetit, stetitque, stetur, sto, sto, steti, statum. (various references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: standstill.

-2 letters: installs.

-3 letters: distant, install, instals, islands, lattins, tanists.

-4 letters: distal, instal, island, lattin, sadist, saints, satins, slants, snails, stains, stalls, stands, stills, stilts, stints, taints, tallis, tallit, tanist, titans, tsadis.

-5 letters: adits, alist, anils, antis, atilt, dials, dills, dints, ditas, lands, lasts, lilts, lints, lists, litas, nails, nidal, nills, sadis, saids, sails, sains, saint.

+1 letter: standstills.

+3 letters: distillations.

+5 letters: redistillations.