"stand still" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stands still",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "standing still",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood still",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood still",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stand<,,stood> still"
      },
      "expansion": "stand still (third-person singular simple present stands still, present participle standing still, simple past and past participle stood still)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "derived": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "standstill"
        },
        {
          "word": "time stand still"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Robert Jonathan Tristani, A Virtual Kill, page 303",
          "text": "Time seemed to stand still as an idea came to him. He could not outrun the car behind him, but he could outdrive his opponent. And the Fiat was more nimble.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stop moving, to remain motionless."
      ],
      "id": "en-stand_still-en-verb-p3HL2I~d",
      "links": [
        [
          "stop",
          "stop"
        ],
        [
          "moving",
          "move"
        ],
        [
          "remain",
          "remain"
        ],
        [
          "motionless",
          "motionless"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sometimes figurative) To stop moving, to remain motionless."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand still"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stand stills",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "stand still (plural stand stills)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "standstill"
        }
      ],
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          "_dis": "58 42",
          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of standstill"
      ],
      "id": "en-stand_still-en-noun-tzwfkEG9",
      "links": [
        [
          "standstill",
          "standstill#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand still"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "standstill"
    },
    {
      "word": "time stand still"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stands still",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "standing still",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood still",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood still",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stand<,,stood> still"
      },
      "expansion": "stand still (third-person singular simple present stands still, present participle standing still, simple past and past participle stood still)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Robert Jonathan Tristani, A Virtual Kill, page 303",
          "text": "Time seemed to stand still as an idea came to him. He could not outrun the car behind him, but he could outdrive his opponent. And the Fiat was more nimble.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stop moving, to remain motionless."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stop",
          "stop"
        ],
        [
          "moving",
          "move"
        ],
        [
          "remain",
          "remain"
        ],
        [
          "motionless",
          "motionless"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sometimes figurative) To stop moving, to remain motionless."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand still"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stand stills",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "stand still (plural stand stills)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "standstill"
        }
      ],
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        "English obsolete forms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of standstill"
      ],
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        [
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          "standstill#English"
        ]
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    }
  ],
  "word": "stand still"
}