Meaning of standard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc
2. Criterion, standard.
3. Denoting the name of a universal language in various works.
4. A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
5. A level of quality or attainment.
6. Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
7. Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc
8. A musical work of established popularity.
9. Having recognized excellence or authority
10. A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
11. Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality
12. The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
13. Having a manual transmission
14. standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
15. A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
16. Grade level in primary education.
    India
17. A vertical pole with something at its apex.
18. An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
19. The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
20. One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
21. Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
22. A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
23. 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.
24. The sheth of a plough.
25. a cairn or tumulus
    Northern-England, Scotland
26. a hill with a cairn or tumulus at its summit
    Northern-England, Scotland
27. A manual transmission vehicle.
28. The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
29. An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
30. A large drinking cup.
31. A collar of mail protecting the neck.
    historical
32. Ellipsis of standard poodle.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
33. A measure for timber.

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Examples

“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;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.”

“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.”

“I was disappointed when the concert ended with a "Tribute to Irving Berlin" that included "God Bless America" and two John Philip Sousa numbers, the "Washington Post" and "Stars and Stripes Forever." […] I think it's wrong, wrong, wrong for a gay band to play music that celebrates the martial life. There's plenty of other rousing music around, so how about dumping some of those armed forces standards.”

“The Biden administration finalized the first national standard to limit dangerous “forever chemicals” found in nearly half of the drinking water in the United States.”

“In stark opposition to what CBS editorial leadership told staff on Monday, Redstone said that she did not believe Dokoupil had violated the network’s editorial standards when he grilled Coates over the contents of his new book.”

“By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.”

“I am in fifth standard.”

“I finished my twelfth standard with less than stellar marks.”

“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.”

“His armies, in the following day, / On those fair plains their standards proud display.”

“In the more temperate parts of France [gardens are] part laid out for Flowers, others for Fruits, ſome Standards, ſome againſt Walls or Paliſades, [...]”

“It [Loranthus europaeus] grows chiefly on the branches of standards over coppice.”

“Frolic, my lords; let all the standards walk, / Ply it till every man hath ta’en his load.”

“The scales generally showed on the face of the garment or defence, and we find body armour, gorgets, habergeons, standards or neck defences, and even the camailt of this class of armour.”

“Goldsmiths also made gold and silver mail for the decorations of helmets and gorgets. The will of Duke Philip the Good shows that he owned a mail standard (collar) made of solid gold.”

“The throat and upper chest was protected by the gorget plate, mail standard or a metal wrapper. Whichever helm Richard chose to wear, it might have had a keyhole at the top to allowed insignia to be inserted.”

“[page 286:] A defense for the neck variously described as a combination of gorget and bevor worn with a salade, and as a standard of mail, or collar, worn under the plate gorget. [page 426:] Baron de Cosson says (Helmets and Mail 110): “Thus in the British Museum there is a standard of mail of which the rings of the top edge are exceedingly close and stiff, […]"”

“Mail was also used to provide skirts substituting for tassets, for collars called "standards" substituting for gorgets, as well as for coats (long) and shirts (short). Consequently finding a few links gives little or no clue to their source. The few from the Fort, however, include copper-alloy (brass?) links, ...”

“Since standards are large dogs, they grow much more rapidly than miniatures and toys, which means that they require more supplements.”

“To clear the fallen timber quickly, arrangements were made between British Railways and the Home Timber Merchant's Association of Scotland for the purchase of timber in the form of sleepers, crossing timbers, and wagon timbers. These arrangements have now terminated, and since the storm a total of 19,000 standards of timber have been purchased by British Railways at a cost of £1,250,000.”

“"I felt that I had to come," she said, as if she could tell from my face that I still wasn't getting it. She spoke Standard, with no real accent. She was dressed in pragmatic, sexless human clothes; if we hadn't been face-to-face, she could have passed for a human.”

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