"stand at attention" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stands at attention",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "standing at attention",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood at attention",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood at attention",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stand<,,stood> at attention"
      },
      "expansion": "stand at attention (third-person singular simple present stands at attention, present participle standing at attention, simple past and past participle stood at attention)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn",
          "text": "It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during “God save the King” than of stealing from a poor box.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stand straight with eyes forward and feet together."
      ],
      "id": "en-stand_at_attention-en-verb-m-sQmM4L",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) To stand straight with eyes forward and feet together."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "stand to attention"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "seisoa asennossa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "garde à vous"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "stawać na baczność"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "stać na baczność"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "estar firme"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "estar en posición de firme"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand at attention"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stands at attention",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "standing at attention",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood at attention",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood at attention",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stand<,,stood> at attention"
      },
      "expansion": "stand at attention (third-person singular simple present stands at attention, present participle standing at attention, simple past and past participle stood at attention)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn",
          "text": "It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during “God save the King” than of stealing from a poor box.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stand straight with eyes forward and feet together."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) To stand straight with eyes forward and feet together."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "stand to attention"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "seisoa asennossa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "garde à vous"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "stawać na baczność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "stać na baczność"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "estar firme"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "estar en posición de firme"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand at attention"
}