Word Meanings - STANDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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• Standpipe
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level a
• Standpoint
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• Standstill
  A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.
• STANDARDBRED
  Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders. [U. S.]
• STANDARDWING
  A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
• Standard-bred
  Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders.
• STANDERATHSTANDERAT
  See Legislature, above.
• Standardize
  To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.
• Standard-wing
  A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
• Stander-by
  One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander.
• Standergrass
  A plant (Orchis mascula); -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long.

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