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Rule

noun
1.
A principle or condition that customarily governs behavior.  Synonym: regulation.  "Short haircuts were the regulation"
2.
Something regarded as a normative example.  Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, pattern.  "Violence is the rule not the exception" , "His formula for impressing visitors"
3.
Prescribed guide for conduct or action.  Synonym: prescript.
4.
(linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice.  Synonym: linguistic rule.
5.
A basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct.  Synonym: principle.
6.
The duration of a monarch's or government's power.
7.
Dominance or power through legal authority.  Synonym: dominion.  "The rule of Caesar"
8.
Directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted.
9.
Any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order.
10.
A rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system.  Synonym: principle.  "The principle of jet propulsion" , "The right-hand rule for inductive fields"
11.
(mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems.  Synonym: formula.  "He gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials"
12.
Measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths.  Synonym: ruler.
verb
(past & past part. ruled; pres. part. ruling)
1.
Exercise authority over; as of nations.  Synonym: govern.
2.
Decide with authority.  Synonym: decree.
3.
Be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance.  Synonyms: dominate, predominate, prevail, reign.  "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood"
4.
Decide on and make a declaration about.  Synonym: find.
5.
Have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac.
6.
Mark or draw with a ruler.
7.
Keep in check.  Synonyms: harness, rein.



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"Rule" Quotes from Famous Books



... The mats of Sind were famous even in my day, but under English rule native industries are killed out by Manchester ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... weakened by their state of exhaustion. The whole of the towns of Tanjore and Trichinopoly were, he says, filled with living skeletons, there was hardly an able or vigorous man to be found, and in this distress it was necessary to relax the ordinarily wise rule of never giving any assistance to a person under preparation for baptism, since to withhold succour would have been ...
— Pioneers and Founders - or, Recent Workers in the Mission field • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... Jones's quitting me at Abergavenny, I had made it an invariable rule always to dress and undress my infant. I never suffered it to be placed in a cradle, or to be fed out of my presence. A basket of an oblong shape with four handles (with a pillow and a small bolster) was her bed by day; at night she slept with ...
— Beaux and Belles of England • Mary Robinson
... of credit to herself for her active and indefatigable philanthropy. The government of her household is admirably administered: all she does is well done, from the writing of a history down to the quietest female occupation. No sort of carelessness or neglect is allowed under her rule, and yet she is not over-strict, nor too rigidly exacting: her servants and her poor neighbours love ...
— The Life of Charlotte Bronte • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... proselytize for the soul's welfare; decry or uphold the national drink; advertize a commercial Firm deriving prosperity from the favour of the multitude; exhort to patriotism. All is accepted. Politeness is the rule, according to Skepsey's experience of the Southern part of the third-class kingdom. And it is as well to mark the divisions, for the better knowledge of our countrymen. The North requires ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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