What's the difference between holder and stand?

Holder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, holds.
  • (n.) One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant.
  • (n.) The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (2) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
  • (3) The government did not spell out the need for private holders of bank debt to take any losses – known as haircuts – under its plans but many analysts believe that this position is untenable.
  • (4) During collection, the rat was restrained in a plastic holder where it was free to eat.
  • (5) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
  • (6) The US media reported Holder was sickened by what he read in Helgerson's report.
  • (7) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.
  • (8) Features of this spectrometer which make it more suitable than the previously employed scintillation spectrometers for the observation of granulocyte and other chemiluminescent systems include; (1) the ability to measure CL immediately upon reaction initiation; (2) simplicity of photomultiplier tube exchange; and (3) built-in optical filter holders for spectral analysis.
  • (9) The contribution of the holder to the continuum spectrum is consistent with theoretical predictions.
  • (10) Stephen Twigg, the shadow education secretary, wrote to the chairman of the Commons education select committee, Graham Stuart, the Conservative MP for Beverley and Holderness, on Friday, to demand a parliamentary inquiry to restore confidence in the exam system.
  • (11) The unexpected announcement by Eric Holder, the attorney general, contradicts Utah’s refusal to recognise some 1,300 same-sex marriages that were licensed during a brief window in December when a federal judge ruled the state’s ban was unconstitutional .
  • (12) The assembly consists of an electrode holder and a fixed support (implanted stereotaxically) which is cemented to the rat skull.
  • (13) This relationship identifies the surgical needle holder that can be used with surgical needles without deformation.
  • (14) It can’t be worse than what’s on there already,” says Holder.
  • (15) I tell you very frankly, no Iraqi power can take action on this.” Over the past four months, some of Iraq’s top office holders, led by prime minister Haider al-Abadi, have tried to do just that.
  • (16) The bacteriological quality of pooled human milk donated to the Oxford milk bank was analysed and the effects on bacteriology of sterilisation of the milk-collecting vessels in the home with hypochlorite solution and of Holder pasteurisation in a purpose-built human-milk pasteuriser were studied.
  • (17) Royal Bank of Scotland Group has promised that its account holders whose transactions were frozen by a computer glitch will be compensated, but thousands of customers of other banks may find themselves out of pocket because of the six-day disruption.
  • (18) The FBI’s “justifiable homicides” database is considered the best measure of cop killings in the US, but even the attorney general, Eric Holder, called the lack of comprehensive numbers “unacceptable” last month .
  • (19) News that gave me a teeny bit of hope for 21st century politics: attorney general Eric Holder and the Department of Justice filed suit against a North Carolina voting law.
  • (20) "They've got to put some morale back into the company," William Smith, founder of SAM Advisers who is a long-term holder of Citigroup shares, told Bloomberg News in an interview advocating a three-way split.

Stand


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To abide by; to submit to; to suffer.
  • (n.) To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position
  • (n.) To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc.
  • (n.) To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation.
  • (n.) To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine.
  • (n.) To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.
  • (n.) To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources.
  • (n.) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
  • (n.) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
  • (n.) To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.
  • (n.) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
  • (n.) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
  • (n.) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
  • (n.) To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor.
  • (n.) To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate.
  • (n.) To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless.
  • (n.) To measure when erect on the feet.
  • (n.) To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide.
  • (n.) To appear in court.
  • (v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the cold or the heat.
  • (v. t.) To resist, without yielding or receding; to withstand.
  • (v. t.) To set upright; to cause to stand; as, to stand a book on the shelf; to stand a man on his feet.
  • (v. t.) To be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to stand a treat.
  • (v. i.) The act of standing.
  • (v. i.) A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand.
  • (v. i.) A place or post where one stands; a place where one may stand while observing or waiting for something.
  • (v. i.) A station in a city or town where carriages or wagons stand for hire; as, a cab stand.
  • (v. i.) A raised platform or station where a race or other outdoor spectacle may be viewed; as, the judge's or the grand stand at a race course.
  • (v. i.) A small table; also, something on or in which anything may be laid, hung, or placed upright; as, a hat stand; an umbrella stand; a music stand.
  • (v. i.) A place where a witness stands to testify in court.
  • (v. i.) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business.
  • (v. i.) Rank; post; station; standing.
  • (v. i.) A state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do.
  • (v. i.) A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
  • (v. i.) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, -- used in weighing pitch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
  • (2) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
  • (3) Such was the mystique surrounding Rumsfeld's standing that an aide sought to clarify that he didn't stand all the time, like a horse.
  • (4) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
  • (5) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (6) Where he has taken a stand, like on gun control after the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama was unable to achieve legislative change.
  • (7) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
  • (8) "In a sea of bubblegum-cute popsters, Sistar stand out for their cool and sexy image," says Scobie.
  • (9) Cas reduced it further to four, but the decision effectively ends Platini’s career as a football administrator because – as he pointedly noted – it rules him out of standing for the Fifa presidency in 2019.
  • (10) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
  • (11) Pickles said that to restore its public standing, the corporation needed to be more transparent, including opening itself up to freedom of information requests.
  • (12) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
  • (13) Every time I have seen him since – you stand up straight and it’s: ‘Hi, boss.
  • (14) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
  • (15) "Everyone knows what it stands for and everyone has already got it in their home.
  • (16) The affected bowel was replaced through the laceration, and the vaginal defects were sutured with the mares standing, utilizing epidural anesthesia.
  • (17) Brazil and Argentina unite in protest against culture of sexual violence Read more The symbolic power of so many women standing together proves that focusing on victims does not mean portraying women as passive.
  • (18) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
  • (19) In January a similar group of MPs warned of a threat to Cameron in 2014 unless he improves the Tories' standing.
  • (20) Why Corporate America is reluctant to take a stand on climate action Read more “We have these quantum leaps,” Friedberg said.