rule meaning
EN[ˈɹuːl] [ˈɹuːɫ] [-uːl]US
WRule
- Rule and ruling usually refers to standards for activities. They may refer to:
- NounPLrulesSUF-ule
- A regulation, law, guideline.
- All participants must adhere to the rules.
- A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
- A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
- A regulating principle.
- The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
- A normal condition or state of affairs.
- My rule is to rise at six o'clock.
- As a rule, our senior editors are serious-minded.
- (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
- (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
- (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
- a rule for extracting the cube root
- (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
- A regulation, law, guideline.
- VerbSGrulesPRrulingPT, PPruled
- (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
- And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
- (slang, intransitive) To excel.
- This game rules!
- (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
- (intransitive) To decide judicially.
- The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
- (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
- (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The defendent has abided by my ruling in good faith.
- Your lurryman as a rule is proud of his horse and careful of its appearance [ …]
- It is much safer to test a few drops from each candle you use for waxplay, than to depend on a rule like "red candles usually burn hotter than white."
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- After the new guy corrected all our inventory values I had to go back and recorrect all of them applying our internal rules.
- The Voortrekkers left the Cape Colony because of dissatisfaction with English rule.
- When quoting others, take care not to run afoul of copyright rules.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of rule in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary