What (who) is rule - definition
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Rules; RULE; Ruleset; Ruling; The Rule (disambiguation); Rule (disambiguation); The Rule; Ruleset (disambiguation); Rule (song); Rules (song)
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rule
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n.
regulation
principle
1) to establish, lay down, make (the) rules
2) to formulate a rule
3) to adopt a rule
4) to apply, enforce a rule
5) to obey, observe a rule
6) to break, violate a rule
7) to bend, stretch a rule
8) to rescind, revoke a rule
9) a firm, hard-and-fast, inflexible, strict rule
10) a general; ground rule; the Golden Rule
11) an exclusionary (AE); gag; parliamentary rule
12) (ling.) a deletion; rewrite; substitution rule
13) a rule against
14) a rule for
15) a rule to + inf. (it's our rule not to smoke at staff conferences)
16) a rule that + clause (they established a rule that everyone must share the expenses)
17) (to be) against, in violation of the rules
18) (misc.) the golden rule; a rule of thumb; as a rule ('generally'); the rule of law
government, reign
19) to establish; extend one's rule
20) to overthrow smb.'s rule
21) benevolent; despotic; foreign; home; majority; minority; mob; popular rule
22) rule over
23) under smb.'s rule (under foreign rule)
straightedge, ruler
24) a slide rule
II
v.
1) (d; intr.) to rule against (the judge ruled against the plaintiff)
2) (D; intr.) to rule on (to rule on a question)
3) (D; intr.) to rule over (to rule over a country)
4) (L; subj.) the court ruled that the witness be/should be disqualified
5) (M) the judge ruled her to be out of order
6) (N; used with an adjective) the judge ruled him incompetent to stand trial
rule
(rules, ruling, ruled)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Rules are instructions that tell you what you are allowed to do and what you are not allowed to do.
...a thirty-two-page pamphlet explaining the rules of basketball...
Strictly speaking, this was against the rules.
N-COUNT: oft N of n, N num
2.
A rule is a statement telling people what they should do in order to achieve success or a benefit of some kind.
An important rule is to drink plenty of water during any flight...
N-COUNT: oft N for/of n
3.
The rules of something such as a language or a science are statements that describe the way that things usually happen in a particular situation.
...according to the rules of quantum theory.
N-COUNT: oft N of n
4.
If something is the rule, it is the normal state of affairs.
However, for many Americans today, weekend work has unfortunately become the rule rather than the exception.
N-SING: the N
5.
The person or group that rules a country controls its affairs.
For four centuries, he says, foreigners have ruled Angola...
He ruled for eight months.
...the long line of feudal lords who had ruled over this land.
VERB: V n, V, V over n
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Rule is also a noun.
...demands for an end to one-party rule.
N-UNCOUNT: usu supp N
6.
If something rules your life, it influences or restricts your actions in a way that is not good for you.
Scientists have always been aware of how fear can rule our lives and make us ill.
VERB: V n
7.
When someone in authority rules that something is true or should happen, they state that they have officially decided that it is true or should happen. (FORMAL)
The court ruled that laws passed by the assembly remained valid...
The Israeli court has not yet ruled on the case...
A provincial magistrates' court last week ruled it unconstitutional...
The committee ruled against all-night opening mainly on safety grounds.
= pronounce
VERB: V that, V on n, V n adj/n, V against n, also V in favour of n
8.
If you rule a straight line, you draw it using something that has a straight edge.
...a ruled grid of horizontal and vertical lines.
VERB: V-ed, also V n
9.
10.
If you say that something happens as a rule, you mean that it usually happens.
As a rule, however, such attacks have been aimed at causing damage rather than taking life.
= generally, usually
PHRASE: PHR with cl
11.
If someone in authority bends the rules or stretches the rules, they do something even though it is against the rules.
There is a particular urgency in this case, and it would help if you could bend the rules.
PHRASE: V inflects
12.
A rule of thumb is a rule or principle that you follow which is not based on exact calculations, but rather on experience.
A good rule of thumb is that a broker must generate sales of ten times his salary if his employer is to make a profit...
PHRASE: rule inflects
13.
If workers work to rule, they protest by working according to the rules of their job without doing any extra work or taking any new decisions. (BRIT)
Nurses are continuing to work to rule.
PHRASE: V inflects
Rule
·adj Conduct in general; behavior.
II. Rule ·adj Uniform or established course of things.
IV. Rule ·adj Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock.
V. Rule ·noun To require or command by rule; to give as a direction or order of court.
VI. Rule ·adj The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
VII. Rule ·vi To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority;
- often followed by over.
VIII. Rule ·vi To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; to decide an incidental point; to enter a rule.
IX. Rule ·adj An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
X. Rule ·adj A straight strip of wood, metal, or the like, which serves as a guide in drawing a straight line; a ruler.
XI. Rule ·noun To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
XII. Rule ·noun To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion; to Guide;
- used chiefly in the passive.
XIII. Rule ·adj Ordibary course of procedure; usual way; comon state or condition of things; as, it is a rule to which there are many exeptions.
XIV. Rule ·vi To keep within a (certain) range for a time; to be in general, or as a rule; as, prices ruled lower yesterday than the day before.
XV. Rule ·adj A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root.
XVI. Rule ·noun To control the will and actions of; to exercise authority or dominion over; to Govern; to Manage.
XVII. Rule ·adj A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
XVIII. Rule ·adj A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly.
XIX. Rule ·noun To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, ·etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book.
XX. Rule ·adj A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but "man" forms its plural "men", and is an exception to the rule.
XXI. Rule ·adj That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket.
Pronunciation examples for rule
1. rule.
Smart Baseball _ Keith Law _ Talks at Google
2. rule--
How to Fall in Love with Anyone _ Mandy Catron _ Talks at Google
3. rule.
The Ethical Algorithm _ Michael Kearns & Aaron Roth _ Talks at Google
4. rule.
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms _ Claire Breay, Simon Keynes, Joanna Story _ Talks at Google
5. But the organic rule isn't a rule
Robert Paarlberg _ Resetting The Table _Talks at Google
Examples of use of rule
1. "But there seems to be one rule for one and one rule for another.
2. The first two years would be a transitional period "to move on from totalitarian rule to sensible rule and from tyrannical rule by one person to the rule of the homeland," he said.
3. The current situation provoked by the SPLM/A is similar to Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge rule, East Timor under Indonesian rule and Ethiopia under Mengisto Hailey Miriam rule (Dirge) rule.
4. "We are following rule of law because they say there is rule of law.
5. There are people who say that people shouldn‘t rule; God should rule.