单词 | rule |
释义 | rule (once / 29 pages) 1n 2n 3nv 4nv 5v 6v A rule is a regulation or direction for doing some particular activity. If you have a "no shoes" rule at your house, it means everyone has to take them off at the door. Other than laws or conditions about what can't and can't be done, rules can be tried-and-true tips like a grammar rule about subject-verb agreement or a spelling rule about making a singular noun plural. Rule can also pertain to power — how someone handles it or how long it lasts, like the peaceful rule of a king whose rule lasted 50 years. WORD FAMILYrule: misrule, overrule, ruled, ruler, rules, ruling, self-rule+/misrule: misrules/overrule: overruled, overrules, overruling/ruler: rulers, rulership/rulership: rulerships/ruling: rulingly, rulings USAGE EXAMPLESAs a result, scientists who study the compound must follow a host of restrictive rules. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Koni attributed his decision to the inability of the government to rule the country. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) But because the budget rules do not allow for unrelated language, the mandate itself was not repealed. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n prescribed guide for conduct or action Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper prescript Robert's Rules of Order a book of rules for presiding over a meeting; written by Henry M. Martin in 1876 and subsequently updated through many editions bylaw a rule adopted by an organization in order to regulate its own affairs and the behavior of its members rubrican authoritative rule of conduct or procedure order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of ordera body of rules followed by an assembly rule of evidence(law) a rule of law whereby any alleged matter of fact that is submitted for investigation at a judicial trial is established or disproved Miranda rulethe rule that police (when interrogating you after an arrest) are obliged to warn you that anything you say may be used as evidence and to read you your constitutional rights (the right to a lawyer and the right to remain silent until advised by a lawyer) precept, principlerule of personal conduct golden ruleany important rule GIGO(computer science) a rule stating that the quality of the output is a function of the quality of the input; put garbage in and you get garbage out dictatean authoritative rule ordinance, regulationan authoritative rule canona rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy etiquetterules governing socially acceptable behavior communications protocol, protocol(computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data game lawa regulation intended to manage or preserve game animals interpellation(parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy best evidence rulea rule of evidence requiring that to prove the content of a writing or recording or photograph the original is required estoppela rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has already been settled exclusionary rulea rule that provides that otherwise admissible evidence cannot be used in a criminal trial if it was the result of illegal police conduct fruit of the poisonous treea rule that once primary evidence is determined to have been illegally obtained any secondary evidence following from it may also not be used hearsay rulea rule that declares not admissible as evidence any statement other than that by a witness parol evidence rulea rule that oral evidence cannot be used to contradict the terms of a written contract res ipsa loquitura rule of evidence whereby the negligence of an alleged wrongdoer can be inferred from the fact that the accident happened standing ordera rule of order permanently in force higher lawa principle that takes precedent over the laws of society moral principlethe principle that conduct should be moral hypothetical imperativea principle stating the action required to attain a desired goal caveat emptora commercial principle that without a warranty the buyer takes upon himself the risk of quality age limitregulation establishing the maximum age for doing something or holding some position assizethe regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale speed limitregulation establishing the top speed permitted on a given road protocolforms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state FTP, file transfer protocolprotocol that allows users to copy files between their local system and any system they can reach on the network HTTP, hypertext transfer protocola protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers MIDI, musical instrument digital interfacea standard protocol for communication between electronic musical instruments and computers TCP, transmission control protocola protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another TCP/IP, transmission control protocol/internet protocola set of protocols (including TCP) developed for the internet in the 1970s to get data from one network device to another punctilioa fine point of etiquette or petty formality closure, cloture, gag law, gag rulea rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body point of ordera question as to whether the current proceedings are allowed by parliamentary procedure res gestaerule of evidence that covers words that are so closely associated with an occurrence that the words are considered part of the occurrence and as such their report does not violate the hearsay rule previous questiona motion calling for an immediate vote on the main question under discussion by a deliberative assembly direction, instruction a message describing how something is to be done 2n a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior it was his rule to take a walk before breakfast Syn|Hypo|Hyper regulation limitation, restriction a principle that limits the extent of something guideline, guidepost, rule of thumba rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior cy pres, cy pres doctrine, rule of cy presa rule that when literal compliance is impossible the intention of a donor or testator should be carried out as nearly as possible working principle, working rulea rule that is adequate to permit work to be done narrownessa restriction of range or scope quantificationa limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no') restrainta rule or condition that limits freedom concept, conception, construct an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances 3n a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct Syn|Hypo|Hyper principle pillar a fundamental principle or practice yangthe bright positive masculine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology yinthe dark negative feminine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology feng shuirules in Chinese philosophy that govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to patterns of yin and yang and the flow of energy (qi); the favorable or unfavorable effects are taken into consideration in designing and siting buildings and graves and furniture pillar of Islam(Islam) one of the five religious obligations accepted by all Muslims generalisation, generality, generalization an idea or conclusion having general application 4n directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted he knew the rules of chess Hypo|Hyper ground rule (baseball) a special rule (as in baseball) dealing with situations that arise due to the nature of the playing grounds direction, instruction a message describing how something is to be done 5n any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order the rule of St. Dominic Hyper direction, instruction a message describing how something is to be done 6n a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system the right-hand rule for inductive fields Syn|Hypo|Hyper principle Gestalt law of organization, Gestalt principle of organization a principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization Le Chatelier principle, Le Chatelier's law, Le Chatelier's principle, Le Chatelier-Braun principlethe principle that if any change is imposed on a system that is in equilibrium then the system tends to adjust to a new equilibrium counteracting the change Gresham's Law(economics) the principle that when two kinds of money having the same denominational value are in circulation the intrinsically more valuable money will be hoarded and the money of lower intrinsic value will circulate more freely until the intrinsically more valuable money is driven out of circulation; bad money drives out good; credited to Sir Thomas Gresham mass-energy equivalence(physics) the principle that a measured quantity of mass is equivalent (according to relativity theory) to a measured quantity of energy Naegele's rulerule for calculating an expected delivery date; subtract three months from the first day of the last menstrual period and add seven days to that date Occam's Razor, Ockham's Razor, law of parsimony, principle of parsimonythe principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred principle of equivalence(physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether his laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference principle of liquid displacement(hydrostatics) the volume of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the volume of the displaced fluid Huygens' principle of superposition, principle of superpositionthe displacement of any point due to the superposition of wave systems is equal to the sum of the displacements of the individual waves at that point principle of superposition, superposition, superposition principle(geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest mass action, mass-action principle(neurology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in all complex functioning localisation, localisation of function, localisation principle, localization, localization of function, localization principle(physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body lateralisation, laterality, lateralizationlocalization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain closure, law of closurea Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric common fate, law of common fatea Gestalt principle of organization holding that aspects of perceptual field that move or function in a similar manner will be perceived as a unit continuation, good continuation, law of continuationa Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction law of proximity, proximitya Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit law of similarity, similaritya Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit law, law of nature a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature 7n (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice Syn|Hypo|Hyper linguistic rule linguistic universal, universal (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages grammatical rule, rule of grammara linguistic rule for the syntax of grammatical utterances morphological rule, rule of morphologya linguistic rule for the formation of words transformationa rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure concept, conception, construct an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances 8n (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems 2he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs Syn|Hypo|Hyper formula metarule a rule that describes how other rules should be used (as in AI) algorithm, algorithmic program, algorithmic rulea precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem heuristic, heuristic program, heuristic rulea commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem recursion(mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation sorting algorithman algorithm for sorting a list stemmer, stemming algorithman algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem lateral thinkinga heuristic for solving problems; you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on procedure, process a particular course of action intended to achieve a result n something regarded as a normative example 3violence is the rule not the exception Syn|Hypo|Hyper convention, formula, normal, pattern mores (sociology) the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group code of behavior, code of conducta set of conventional principles and expectations that are considered binding on any person who is a member of a particular group universala behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings courtly love(Middle Ages) a highly conventionalized code of conduct for lovers knight errantry(Middle Ages) the code of conduct observed by a knight errant who is wandering in search of deeds of chivalry protocolcode of correct conduct practice knowledge of how something is usually done 1n the duration of a monarch's or government's power during the rule of Elizabeth Exp|Hypo|Hyper Regency the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III's periods of insanity regency the period of time during which a regent governs continuance, duration the period of time during which something continues 2n dominance or power through legal authority the rule of Caesar Syn|Hypo|Hyper dominion paramountcy the state of being paramount; the highest rank or authority rajBritish dominion over India (1757-1947) reign, sovereigntyroyal authority; the dominion of a monarch suzeraintythe position or authority of a suzerain scepter, sceptrethe imperial authority symbolized by a scepter ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance the state that exists when one person or group has power over another 3v decide with authority Syn|Hypo|Hyper decree override, overrule, overthrow, overturn, reverse rule against rule in, rule outinclude or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules decide, determine, make up one's mind reach, make, or come to a decision about something 4v decide on and make a declaration about Syn|Hyper find feel, find come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds judge, label, pronounce pronounce judgment on 5v exercise authority over; as of nations 4Syn|Hypo|Hyper govern throne sit on the throne as a ruler misgoverngovern badly dictaterule as a dictator reignhave sovereign power grind down, tyrannise, tyrannizerule a country as a tyrant command, control exercise authoritative control or power over 1n 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper ruler carpenter's rule a rule used by a carpenter foot rulea ruler one foot long meterstick, metresticka rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) yard measure, yardsticka ruler or tape that is three feet long measure, measuring rod, measuring stick measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements 2v mark or draw with a ruler 5rule the margins Hyper draw represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface 1v be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance Syn|Hypo dominate, predominate, prevail, reign override prevail over overarchbe central or dominant outbalance, outweigh, overbalance, preponderateweigh more heavily 2v keep in check 6rule one's temper Syn|Hyper harness, rein bound, confine, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel place limits on (extent or access) v have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac Hyper accompany, attach to, come with, go with be present or associated with an event or entity |
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