to continue to navigate a vessel on the same heading
2. (preposition)
to insist on
to stand on ceremony
3. stand on one's own feet
stand on in American English
1.
to be based or founded upon; depend on
2.
to insist upon; demand due observance of (ceremony, one's dignity or rights, etc.)
3. Nautical
to hold the same course or tack
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Examples of 'stand on' in a sentence
stand on
They carried in rusting machinery too heavy to stand on my table.
Gash, Jonathan THE TARTAN RINGERS
Besides, deep down, I knew I didn't have a leg to stand on.
Val McDermid DEAD BEAT (2002)
Gasping, he staggered back against the wall, until a voice from beyond the door said: "Don't stand on ceremony.
Clive Barker THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW (2001)
They couldn't, they said, stand on pride the way Orfe could.
French, Vivian & Fisher, Chris (illustrator) IAN AND THE STRIPY BATH PLUG (1993)
All related terms of 'stand on'
on stand-by
in a state of readiness for action or use
stand on ceremony
to insist on or act with excessive formality
stand on one's head
If you stand on your head , you balance upside down with the top of your head and your hands on the ground .
stand on one's own feet
to be independent
have a leg to stand on
If you say that someone does not have a leg to stand on , or hasn't got a leg to stand on , you mean that a statement or claim they have made cannot be justified or proved .
stand on your own two feet
to show that you are independent and do not need anyone to help you or support you
make one's hair stand on end
to terrify or horrify one
not have a leg to stand on
to be in a very weak position, for example because you are unable to prove a claim or statement you have made
stand on one's own (two) feet
to be independent
stand/turn sth on it's head
If you stand an idea or argument on its head or turn it on its head , you think about it or treat it in a completely new and different way.
make someone's hair stand on end
to make someone very frightened or shocked
to make your hair stand on end
Something that makes your hair stand on end shocks or frightens you very much.
to stand on your own two feet
If someone has to stand on their own two feet , they have to be independent and manage their lives without help from other people.
turn something on its head
to use the same facts of an argument or theory to produce a different or opposite conclusion