"stand fire" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stands fire",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "standing fire",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood fire",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood fire",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stand<,,stood> fire"
      },
      "expansion": "stand fire (third-person singular simple present stands fire, present participle standing fire, simple past and past participle stood fire)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "68 32",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "68 32",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "70 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1909, Joseph John Doke, M. K. Gandhi: Indian Patriot in South Africa, Chapter 13:",
          "text": "They were again under fire at Vaal Krantz, the shells dropping a few yards in front of them as the bearers removed the men. Hospital orderlies, water-carriers, nurses, bearers, all were willing to do or be anything in this dire need; and although not infrequently obliged to accept insults or to stand fire, they acquitted themselves with great credit, and earned the unstinted praise of the soldiers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, Harris Dickson, s:The Unpopular History of the United States by Uncle Sam Himself, Chapter 14:",
          "text": "It is perfectly possible to take a thousand individuals, each of whom is individually fearless, form them hastily into a regiment, and collectively they will not stand fire. A thousand individual heroes may easily make one collective regimental coward. Such is the incomprehensible psychology of the mob.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put oneself in the way of an enemy's firing."
      ],
      "id": "en-stand_fire-en-verb-39RPI06L",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, military) To put oneself in the way of an enemy's firing."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "firing line"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To put oneself in a position vulnerable to rebuke or criticism"
      ],
      "id": "en-stand_fire-en-verb-XUiEvliu",
      "links": [
        [
          "rebuke",
          "rebuke"
        ],
        [
          "criticism",
          "criticism"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To put oneself in a position vulnerable to rebuke or criticism"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "face the music"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand fire"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stands fire",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "standing fire",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood fire",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood fire",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stand<,,stood> fire"
      },
      "expansion": "stand fire (third-person singular simple present stands fire, present participle standing fire, simple past and past participle stood fire)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "firing line"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1909, Joseph John Doke, M. K. Gandhi: Indian Patriot in South Africa, Chapter 13:",
          "text": "They were again under fire at Vaal Krantz, the shells dropping a few yards in front of them as the bearers removed the men. Hospital orderlies, water-carriers, nurses, bearers, all were willing to do or be anything in this dire need; and although not infrequently obliged to accept insults or to stand fire, they acquitted themselves with great credit, and earned the unstinted praise of the soldiers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, Harris Dickson, s:The Unpopular History of the United States by Uncle Sam Himself, Chapter 14:",
          "text": "It is perfectly possible to take a thousand individuals, each of whom is individually fearless, form them hastily into a regiment, and collectively they will not stand fire. A thousand individual heroes may easily make one collective regimental coward. Such is the incomprehensible psychology of the mob.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put oneself in the way of an enemy's firing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, military) To put oneself in the way of an enemy's firing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put oneself in a position vulnerable to rebuke or criticism"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rebuke",
          "rebuke"
        ],
        [
          "criticism",
          "criticism"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To put oneself in a position vulnerable to rebuke or criticism"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "face the music"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand fire"
}