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Standard   /stˈændərd/   Listen
adjective
Standard  adj.  
1.
Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.
2.
Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.
3.
(Hort.)
(a)
Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees.
(b)
Not of the dwarf kind; as, a standard pear tree.
Standard candle, Standard gauge. See under Candle, and Gauge.
Standard solution. (Chem.) See Standardized solution, under Solution.


noun
Standard  n.  
1.
A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign. "His armies, in the following day, On those fair plains their standards proud display."
2.
That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard.
3.
That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test. "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."
4.
(Coinage) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. "By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver."
5.
(Hort.) 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."
6.
(Bot.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
7.
(Mech. & Carp.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.
8.
(Shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
9.
The sheth of a plow.
10.
A large drinking cup.
Standard bearer, an officer of an army, company, or troop, who bears a standard; commonly called color sergeantor color bearer; hence, the leader of any organization; as, the standard bearer of a political party.





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"Standard" Quotes from Famous Books



... is said he used in celebrating mass, was made into a standard, which was believed to bring victory. That gained at Flodden Field was ascribed to it. The banner is said to have been burnt by the sister of Calvin, who was the wife of the first Protestant Dean of Durham Cathedral. No one ...
— Grace Darling - Heroine of the Farne Islands • Eva Hope
... wife had no idea of restricting Ida's education to the rather limited standard indicated by Rachel. So, from the first, they sent her to a carefully selected private school, where she had the advantage of good associates, and where her progress ...
— Jack's Ward • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... unbelievers, rebellious, political squabblers. They may say in scorn, You Protestants know not whither you are going; you have broken yourselves off from the old Catholic tree, and now, in the wild exercise of your own private judgment, you are losing all that standard of doctrine, all unity of belief. Our answer will be—It is not so: but even if it were so— even if we did not know whither we were going—we should go forward still. For though we know not, God knows. We have committed ourselves to ...
— Sermons for the Times • Charles Kingsley
... looked upon poor dead Kitty, and wondered what was the flaw in her intellect that made her the slave of a gambler and a villain. You argued that only an unsophisticated school girl could be deceived as was poor Madeline. Oh, you have been very proud, and very high has been your standard of manly worth, Miss Claire Keith! So high that the man who has occupied it might easily slip ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch
... suppose it's a question of what one values most, or perhaps what most strongly appeals to one's fancy. It would be difficult to fix an accurate standard for judging suitors by, wouldn't it?" Then her tone grew scornful. "Besides, as those who are eligible aren't numerous, a girl's expected to wait with an encouraging smile and thankfully ...
— Prescott of Saskatchewan • Harold Bindloss


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