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sub-ˈstandard, a.
[sub- 14.]
1. Of a quality or size less than that which is normally or officially regarded as standard.
1909in Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1930Daily Express 6 Oct. 13/1 The famous ‘Marshella’..sub-standard [stockings]... Special lot..slightly sub-standard. 1947Mind LVI. 313 A race of philosophers from whom it is the fashion to expect somewhat sub-standard ratiocination. 1952C. P. Blacker Eugenics: Galton & After 312 The mother is frequently sub-standard mentally. 1964D. Macarthur Reminiscences vi. 157 He took a substandard force and welded it into a weapon so deadly as to take command of the air whenever it engaged the enemy. 1975M. Sullivan Watch how you Go i. 22 They lived all their long lives under sub-standard conditions, and accepted them.
2. Of speech: not conforming to standard usage; spec. employing forms which are widely used but are considered incorrect.
1933L. Bloomfield Language iii. 50 In such communities the non-standard language can be divided, roughly, to be sure, and without a sharp demarcation, into sub⁓standard speech, intelligible at least, though not uniform, throughout the country, and local dialect. 1951Trager & Smith Outl. Eng. Struct. 84, I have knowed can be called substandard or ‘incorrect’. 1964English Studies XLV. (Suppl.). 149 St. Mary's Lane, Lewes, is called ‘Simmery Lane’ in local sub-standard speech. 1977Word 1972 XXVIII. 264 It is much more prevalent in the north, especially in substandard and rural speech.
3. Cinemat. Of film: less than 35 mm. wide; spec. 16 mm. wide.
1934Discovery Feb. 47/2 [Films] shot on standard 35 mm film-stock before being reduced to the sub-standard non-flam 16 mm normally required for class-room use. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 818/1 Sub-standard sizes in use are 17·5, 16, 9·5 and 8 mm., as contrasted with the standard 35 mm.
1935,1959[see narrow gauge 2]. |