DAILY VOCABULARY WITH PICTURES.

• stand [countable]
• 1

  for support

  a piece of furniture or equipment used to hold or support something:
• a music stand
• a cake stand
• He adjusted the microphone stand.
• coat stand/hat stand (=for hanging coats or hats on)
• 2

  for selling

  a table or small structure used for selling or showing things [= stallBritish English]
• a hotdog stand
• an exhibition stand
• The shop was crowded with display stands and boxes.
• One week three magazines hit the stands (=became available to buy) with Peace Corps stories.
• 3

  opinion/attitude

   [usually singular] a position or opinion that you state firmly and publicly
• stand on
• the Republicans' conservative stand on social and environmental issues
• She was accused of not taking a stand on feminism or civil rights.
• 4

  oppose/defend

  a strong effort to defend yourself or to oppose something
• take/make/mount a stand (against something)
• We have to take a stand against racism.
• 5

   the stands

   [plural] also stand British English a building where people stand or sit to watch the game at a sports ground [↪ grandstand]:
• In the stands, fifty of Jess's friends and family have come to watch her last game.
• 6

   the stand

  a witness box:
• Will the next witness please take the stand (=go into the witness box)?
• 7

  cricket

  the period of time in which two batsmen are playing together in a game of cricket, or the points that they get during this time
• 8

  taxis/buses

  a place where taxis or buses stop and wait for passengers:
• There's a taxi stand on Glen Road.
• 9

  trees

  a group of trees of one type growing close together
• stand of
• a stand of eucalyptus trees

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.