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rule | |
1. Substantiv: | |
2. [1] Regel, Vorschrift | |
Englisch > Englisch | |
rule | |
1. subst. A regulation, law, guideline. | |
All participants must adhere to the rules. | |
2. subst. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure. | |
3. subst. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing. | |
4. subst. A regulating principle. | |
5. subst. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control. | |
6. subst. A normal condition or state of affairs. | |
My rule is to rise at six o'clock. | |
As a rule, our senior editors are serious-minded. | |
7. subst. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour. | |
8. subst. (legal) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit. | |
9. subst. (math) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result. | |
a rule for extracting the cube root | |
10. subst. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work. | |
11. v. To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over. | |
12. v. (slang) To excel. | |
This game rules! | |
13. v. To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines). | |
14. v. (intransitive) To decide judicially. | |
15. v. To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice. | |