stand up meaning
ENWStand up
- VerbSGstands upPRstanding upPT, PPstood up
- (intransitive) To rise from a lying or sitting position.
- Stand up, then sit down again.
- (transitive) To bring something up and set it into a standing position.
- Laura stood the sofa up on end.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To avoid a prearranged meeting, especially a date, with (a person) without prior notification; to jilt or shirk.
- John stood Laura up at the movie theater.
- (intransitive, of a thing) To last or endure over a period of time.
- (intransitive, of a person or narrative) To continue to be believable, consistent, or plausible.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket-keeper) To stand immediately behind the wicket so as to catch balls from a slow or spin bowler, and to attempt to stump the batsman.
- (transitive) To launch, propel upwards.
- It was a dreadful goal to concede as Ariel Ibagaza was able to take a short corner and then receive the return ball in space on the left. He stood up a floated cross into the middle where Fuster arrived unmarked to steer a header into the corner.
- (US, military, transitive) To formally activate and commission (a unit, formation, etc.).
- (intransitive) To rise from a lying or sitting position.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- A properly made, fully sintered and fully annealed metal clay piece should be able to stand up to any traditional metalsmithing technique.
- She stood up for me when no one else would, and I've never forgotten it.
- You surely would have abandoned it as chicken-heartedly as you refused to stand up to him in the field.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- You can feel and kiss and stroke and suck, but you won't make that old one-eyed snake stand up.
- It’s funny to see these 20- and 30-year-old superathletes never standing up.
- I ended up having to beltloop when my teacher told me to stand up.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of stand up in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Phrases
- Phrasal verbs
- Phrasal verbs with particle (up)
- Phrasal verbs with particle (up)
- Phrasal verbs
- Verbs
- Phrasal verbs
- Phrasal verbs with particle (up)
- Phrasal verbs with particle (up)
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Phrasal verbs
- Phrases
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this idiom "stand up" is a phrase, more specifically, a phrasal verb. It's also a verb, more specifically, a phrasal verb, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.