standard
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
standard
- Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
- (of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
- 1863, Anthony Trollope, Rachel Ray:
- There are women who cannot grow alone as standard trees;—for whom the support and warmth of some wall, some paling, some post, is absolutely necessary […].
- 1863, Anthony Trollope, Rachel Ray:
- 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).
- (linguistics) Conforming to the standard variety.
- German: üblich, standardmäßig
- Italian: standard, regolare
- Portuguese: padrão
- Russian: станда́ртный
- Spanish: estándar
- Russian: литературный
standard (plural standards)
- A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
- A level of quality or attainment.
- Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
- RQ
- the court, which used to be the standard of propriety and correctness of speech
- A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
- RQ
- 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.
- 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.
- (India) Grade level in primary education.
- I am in fifth standard.
- A vertical pole with something at its apex.
- An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
- The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
- 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.
- 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.
- (sociolinguistics) standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
- French: standard
- German: Standard
- Italian: standard, livello, tenore
- Portuguese: padrão
- Russian: станда́рт
- Spanish: estándar, dechado, padrón, nivel, tenor, prototipo, estándard
- French: standard, étalon
- German: Standard
- Italian: standard, tipo, norma
- Portuguese: padrão
- Russian: станда́рт
- Spanish: modelo, patrón, norma
- French: étendard
- German: Banner, Standarte
- Italian: stendardo, bandiera, insegna
- Portuguese: estandarte
- Russian: зна́мя
- Spanish: estandarte
- Russian: станда́рт
- (slang) An expression of agreement
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