Word Meanings - STAND-BY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant use or in an emergency.

Related words: (words related to STAND-BY)

• CONSTANTIA
  A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.
• EMERGENCY
  1. Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion. Most our rarities have been found out by casual emergency. Glanvill. 2. An unforeseen occurrence or combination of circumstances which calls for immediate action or
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• CONSTANT
  Remaining unchanged or invariable, as a quantity, forc, law, etc. 4. Consistent; logical. Shak. Syn. -- Fixed; steadfast; unchanging; permanent; unalterable; immutable; perpetual; continual; resolute; firm; unshaken; determined. -- Constant,
• SOMETHING
  1. Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing. There is something in the wind. Shak. The whole world has something
• STANDSTILL
  A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.
• CONSTANTLY
  With constancy; steadily; continually; perseveringly; without cessation; uniformly. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Acts. xii. 15.
• UNCONSTANT
  Not constant; inconstant; fickle; changeable. Shak. -- Un*con"stant*ly, adv. -- Un*con"stant*ness, n.
• INCONSTANTLY
  In an inconstant manner.
• INCONSTANT
  Not constant; not stable or uniform; subject to change of character, appearance, opinion, inclination, or purpose, etc.; not firm; unsteady; fickle; changeable; variable; -- said of persons or things; as, inconstant in love or friendship.