standing
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
standing/ˈstandɪŋ/
▶noun
- 1 position, status, or reputation.
- 2 duration: a squabble of long standing.
- 3 a stall for cattle or horses.
- 1 (of a jump or start of a race) performed from rest or an upright position.
- 2 long-term or regularly repeated: a standing invitation.
- 3 (of water) stagnant or still.
- 4 (of corn) not yet reaped.
- 5 Printing (of metal type) kept set up after use.
– phrases
all standing Sailing without time to lower the sails.
in good standing on good terms.
leave someone/thing standing informal be much better or faster than someone or something else.
all standing Sailing without time to lower the sails.
in good standing on good terms.
leave someone/thing standing informal be much better or faster than someone or something else.
'standing' also found in these Oxford entries:
aerostat
- all-seater
- Amidah
- ampersand
- antinode
- attention
- bacteriostat
- bearing
- block
- breakaway
- burpee
- calibre
- campanile
- capriccio
- chimenea
- ciborium
- column
- common jury
- corded
- cromlech
- crop circle
- croupier
- dead lift
- doghouse
- dream ticket
- easy
- ecstasy
- effendi
- egregious
- fall
- fisherman's bend
- fisherman's knot
- frame tent
- free-standing
- gatehouse
- gentlewoman
- gerenuk
- gondola
- grandfather clock
- half hitch
- hatstand
- horrent
- Huron
- iconostasis
- inveterate
- jumping jack
- knee-trembler
- kouros
- lectern
- lee wave
