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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



... will find many a pretty tea-house, standing at the rival doors of which Mesdemoiselles Sugar, Wave of the Sea, Flower, Seashore, and Chrysanthemum are pressing in their invitations to you to enter and rest. Not beautiful these damsels, if judged by our standard, but the charm of Japanese women lies in their manner and dainty little ways, and the tea-house girl, being a professional decoy-duck, is an adept in the art of flirting,—en tout bien tout honneur, be it remembered; for she is not to be confounded with the frail beauties of the Yoshiwara, nor ...
— Tales of Old Japan • Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
... Callender, whose ears an alarming report of the contest in which his gallant spouse was engaged, had reached. Both gentlemen were, at the moment, in their red nightcaps, and might thus be considerd as the standard bearers of the combatants. ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III • Various
... receive advice, denotes that you will be enabled to raise your standard of integrity, and strive by honest means to reach independent competency and ...
— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller
... and the Haghar to lions and tigers, and the Kailouees to snakes. The comparison well hits off their outward characteristics, but, as Overweg says, we must not judge of these people by the ordinary rules of morality, or apply to them an European standard. I suspect we shall have to put up with still more extraordinary specimens ...
— Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 • James Richardson
... atmosphere—even now, of too many stuffs and washed lace curtains, lavender in bags, and dried bees' wings. 'No,' he thought, 'there's nothing like it left; it ought to be preserved.' And, by George, they might laugh at it, but for a standard of gentle life never departed from, for fastidiousness of skin and eye and nose and feeling, it beat to-day hollow—to-day with its Tubes and cars, its perpetual smoking, its cross-legged, bare-necked girls visible up to the knees and down ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy


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