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stand out

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stand out (third-person singular simple presentstands out,present participlestanding out,simple past and past participlestood out)

(intransitive) To persist inopposition or resistance (against something); to refuse tocomply (with someone).
- 1789,John Moore,Zeluco, Valancourt, published2008, page131:
  Indeed he had no notion that Madame de Seidlits, or her daughter, had a serious intention ofstanding out against a match which he thought so advantageous to both.
(intransitive) To beobvious orconspicuous, in contrast to the surroundings.
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Tourist guides often carry umbrellas so that theystand out in a crowd.
- 1918 September–November,Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, inThe Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.,→OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, inHugo Gernsback, editor,Amazing Stories,(please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.:Experimenter Publishing,1927,→OCLC:
  The path led straight across the clearing into another forest, lying upon the verge of which I saw a bit of white. It appeared tostand out in marked contrast and incongruity to all its surroundings, and when I stopped to examine it, I found that it was a small strip of muslin—part of the hem of a garment.
- 1950 January, Arthur F. Beckenham, “With British Railways to the Far North”, inRailway Magazine, page 5:
  At Stirling, we obtained a wonderful silhouette view of the Wallace Monument, and the dark line of the Ochil Hills, and the castlestood out clearly against the afterglow of the sunset.
- 2020 August 26, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, inRail, page 4:
  A ray of light amid all this nonsense was Gwyn Topham's piece in theGuardian, which was timely, measured, accurate and of appropriate tone. That this single reportstood out so clearly as an exemplar is a scathing comment in itself on the volumes of drivel surrounding it.
(intransitive) To be extraordinary and different or to have features and qualities which make someone or something special.
Shestood out from the other candidates and was offered the job.
- 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 – 0Wigan”, inBBC Sport‎^[1]:
  The Scottish midfielder had an impressive game for Villa and his passing and visionstood out throughout.
- 2013 June 7,Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, inThe Guardian Weekly‎^[2], volume188, number26, page19:
  It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with Americastanding out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.
(intransitive, nautical) Tosail in a direction away fromshore.
- 1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e.,Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], translated by H. L. Brækstad,Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London:Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington,→OCLC,page181:
  One morning in the early grey of the dawn westood out to sea to troll for mackerel.
- 2008,Amitav Ghosh,Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published2015, page23:
  The next day the breeze freshened and theIbis dulystood out to sea.