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standard
English
Noun
(en noun )
A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
# A level of quality or attainment.
#*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
# Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
- the court, which used to be the standard of property and correctness of speech
#* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
- A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
# A musical work of established popularity.
# A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
# The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
#* (John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)
- By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.
# A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
A vertical pole with something at its apex.
# An object supported in an upright position, such as a .
#* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, chapter=Foreword, title= The China Governess
, passage=‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’}}
# The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
#* Fairfax
- His armies, in the following day, / On those fair plains their standards proud display.
# One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
# Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
# A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
#* Sir W. Temple
- In France part of their gardens is laid out for flowers, others for fruits; some standards , some against walls.
# The sheth of a plough.
A manual transmission vehicle.
(botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
(shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
A large drinking cup.
- (Greene)
Adjective
(en adjective )
Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
(of a tree or shrub) Growing on an erect stem of full height.
Having recognized excellence or authority.
- standard”’ works in history; ”’standard authors
Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
(not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
As normally supplied (not optional).
Derived terms
* bog standard
* gold standard
* double standard
* standard-bearer
* standard fare
* standard gauge
* standard lamp
* standard language
* Standard Model
* standard of living
* standard poodle
* standard time
* standard transmission
* standard deviation
* time standard
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benchmark
English
Noun
(en noun )
A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
* 2013 , Martina Hyde, Is the pope Catholic?” (in ”The Guardian , 20 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/20/is-pope-catholic-atheists-gay-people-abortion]
- Is the pope Catholic? Forgive the posing of a question that is usually rhetorical, the absolute benchmark of certainty, and traditionally regarded as even more settled than the one pertaining to the lavatorial arrangements of bears.
A surveyor’s mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
(computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
Verb
(en verb )
To measure the performance of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.
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