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Standard

adjective

1.

Conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind. "Standard sizes" , "The standard fixtures" , "Standard brands" , "Standard operating procedure"

2.

Commonly used or supplied. "Standard car equipment"

3.

Established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence. "The classical argument between free trade and protectionism"

4.

Conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers. Synonym: received. "Received standard English is sometimes called the King's English"

5.

Regularly and widely used or sold. Synonym: stock. "A stock item"

noun

1.

A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated. Synonyms: criterion, measure, touchstone. "They set the measure for all subsequent work"

2.

The ideal in terms of which something can be judged. Synonym: criterion.

3.

A board measure = 1980 board feet.

4.

The value behind the money in a monetary system. Synonym: monetary standard.

5.

An upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support). "Lamps supported on standards provided illumination"

6.

Any distinctive flag. Synonym: banner.

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"Standard" Quotes from Famous Books

... rung on the church bells in the towns and villages in all parts of Kent; and copies of a proclamation were scattered abroad, signifying that the Spaniards were coming to conquer the realm, and calling on loyal Englishmen to rise and resist them. Wyatt's standard was raised at Rochester, the point at which the insurgent forces were to unite; his friends had done their work well, and in all directions the yeomen and the peasants rose in arms. Cheyne threw himself into Dover Castle: Southwell and Abergavenny held ...

— The Reign of Mary Tudor • James Anthony Froude

... gaining the slightest military advantage by going on fighting; and that the raising of a white flag in any case by an unauthorised person—i.e. not the officer in chief command—in such a manner as to compromise the resistance of a force, deserves sentence of death, though in view of the high standard of discipline and honour prevailing in her Majesty's army, it might not be necessary to carry the sentence into effect. I earnestly trust that in justice to gallant officers and soldiers, who have languished these ...

— London to Ladysmith via Pretoria • Winston Spencer Churchill

... the trouble to combine the different lengths of pieces having like thicknesses and widths into pieces of standard lengths, he will be able to save himself some expense at the mill with ...

— Mission Furniture - How to Make It, Part 2 • H. H. Windsor

... understand that these splendid dissertations will be given to the public in the more acceptable form of a volume. The popular lecture is not a suitable medium for such discussions, or certainly not for such thinking: one of Mr. James's sentences, diluted to the lecture standard, would serve for an entire discourse, which by those who should understand it, would be deemed of a singularly compact body, as compared with the ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 • Various

... every conjecture of this kind must be very uncertain, all I can do is to lay before Congress the relative expense, as far as I can learn it, between the different places at which our Ministers reside, taking Philadelphia for the common standard. ...

— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI • Various

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