Word Meanings - STANDSTILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.
Related words: (words related to STANDSTILL)
- STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - MOVER
1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These - MOVELESS
Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope. - MOVABLE
1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable - STANDARD
The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend, - 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. - 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 - MOVE
To transfer from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king. 3. To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. Minds desirous of - STATE SOCIALISM
A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to - BACKWARD; BACKWARDS
1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events; - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - MOVIE
A moving picture or a moving picture show; -- commonly used in pl. - STATECRAFT
The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship. - FORWARDLY
Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson. - STATESMANLY
Becoming a statesman. - STATESMAN
1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light - STANDAGE
A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - ENMOVE
See EMMOVE - BYSTANDER
One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer. - KATASTATE
A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic. - BAYOU STATE
Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous. - PROMOVE
To move forward; to advance; to promote. Bp. Fell. - REESTATE
To reëstablish. Walis. - BLACKWATER STATE
Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil. - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - ARISTATE
Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray. - BICOSTATE
Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf. - IRREMOVABLE
Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv. - TRIPLICOSTATE
Three-ribbed.