Standby may refer to: *

Standby (air travel) On most modern airlines, flying standby is when a passenger awaiting at the portline without a seat assignment waits at the gate to see if there is an extra seat after all scheduled passengers have boarded. There are several common circumstances ...

, a list in which passengers may request to be placed on to request an earlier or more convenient flight *

Standby (theater) In theatre, an understudy, referred to in opera as cover or covering, is a performer who learns the lines and blocking or choreography of a regular actor, actress, or other performer in a play. Should the regular actor or actress be unable to ap ...

, an actor or performer who will appear in a particular role if the regular performer is not present *

Sleep mode Sleep mode (or suspend to RAM) is a low power mode for electronic devices such as computers, televisions, and remote controlled devices. These modes save significantly on electrical consumption compared to leaving a device fully on and, upon resu ...

(in electronics), also known as standby mode—a mode in which electronic appliances are turned off but still under power and ready to activate on command ** Standby (or ACPI S3), an

ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and configure computer hardware components, to perform power management (e.g. putting unused hardware components to sleep), auto con ...

mode of a computer *

Modern Standby InstantGo, also known as InstantOn or Modern Standby (formerly Connected Standby), is a Microsoft specification for Windows 8 (and later) hardware and software that aims to bring smartphone-type power management capabilities to the PC platform, as ...

(or InstantGo), a computer power management system *

Standby power Standby power, also called vampire power, vampire draw, phantom load, ghost load, or leaking electricity, refers to how certain electronic and electrical appliances consume electricity while they are not actively in use, but which are still ...

, energy consumed by an electronic device while it is turned off or in sleep mode * ''Standby'' (TV series), a South Korean sitcom * Standby Records, an American independent record label * "Standby", a song by Macintosh Plus from ''

Floral Shoppe is the ninth studio album by the American electronic musician Ramona Andra Langley under the alias Macintosh Plus, released on December 9, 2011, by the independent record label Beer on the Rug. It was one of the first releases of the 2010s m ...

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