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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law
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lawe, and gesetnes. More at (l).
Noun
(lb) The body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities.
:
*, chapter=22
, title= The Mirror and the Lamp
, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
A particular such rule.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
(lb) A written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and their consequences. Laws are usually associated with mores.
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A well-established, observed physical characteristic or behavior of nature. The word is used to simply identify “what happens,” without implying any explanatory mechanism or causation. Compare to theory.
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(lb) A statement that is true under specified conditions.
A category of English “common law” petitions that request monetary relief, as opposed to relief in forms other than a monetary judgment; compare to “equity”.
(lb) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC.
The police.
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(lb) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to chaos.
An oath, as in the presence of a court. See wager of law.
Derived terms
* above the law
* against the law
* a law unto oneself
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* Avogadro’s law
* Beer-Lambert law
* Boyle’s law
* bylaw
* canon law
* Charles’ law
* civil law
* common law
* contract law
* corn laws
* Coulomb’s law
* criminal law
* de Morgan’s laws
* employment law
* family law
* Faraday’s laws
* federal law
* feudal law
* Fourier’s law
* Gauss’s law
* Graham’s law
* Gresham’s law
* Henry’s law
* Hooke’s law
* Hubble’s law
* international law
* into law
* Kepler’s laws of planetary motion
* Kerchoff’s laws
* law and order
* lawful
* lawgiver
* lawlike
* law lord
* lawmaker, law-maker
* law of cosines
* law of large numbers
* law of sines
* law of small numbers
* law of tangents
* law of the land
* law of the tongue
* lay down the law
* long arm of the law
* lynch law
* martial law
* Moore’s law
* Murphy’s law
* natural law
* Newton’s law of cooling
* Newton’s law of gravitation
* Newton’s laws of motion
* Ohm’s law
* physical law
* power law
* Poiseuille’s law
* possession is nine points of the law
* property law
* Roman law
* statuate (statute)+law=statuate law (US)
* state law
* statute law (Commonwealth English)
* Stefan-Boltzmann law
* Stokes’ law
* sus law
* take the law into one’s own hands
* the law is an ass
* three laws of robotics
* unwritten law
* Zipf’s law
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Also spelled low.
Noun
(en noun)
(obsolete) a tumulus of stones
a hill
* 1892 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains
- You might climb the Law […] and behold the face of many counties.
Etymology 3
Compare (la).
Interjection
(en interjection)
(dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks.
References
Etymology] in [[:w:da:ODS, ODS]
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