Word Finder - rule

definition

A regulation, law, guideline.

example

All participants must adhere to the rules.

definition

A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.

definition

A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.

definition

A regulating principle.

definition

The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.

definition

A normal condition or state of affairs.

example

As a rule, our senior editors are serious-minded.

definition

Conduct; behaviour.

definition

An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.

definition

A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.

example

a rule for extracting the cube root

definition

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.

But I didn't make that rule up.

I always make it a rule to speak out.

Why save a world when we can rule them?

Rule two, escort X's girls out every morning.

But I'm afraid you cannot rule the Emerald City, as you used to, because we now have a beautiful Princess whom everyone loves dearly.

You would rule under my favor.

His friend was well aware he got a pass at just about every rule he broke.

It was out of the question to be under French rule, it would be the worst thing that could happen.

Even so, she was the one who had made the rule.

He has to do that, or he'd be in violation of rule number one.

I thought you girls had some kind of a house rule.

He could not see an aim, for he now had faith--not faith in any kind of rule, or words, or ideas, but faith in an ever-living, ever-manifest God.

Rule three, remind him to wear clothes.

Rule five, keep your cell on.

As a rule, a match consists of 21 points, or 21 ends (or a few more, by agreement).

Are the words so difficult to say or does your rule book say it's something perverted.

He acted as regent till the new king reached Spain and hoped to be powerful under his rule.

The architrave is flat, and there is a space over it, serving both to admit light and to relieve the pressure on it from above, and the size decreases slightly from the bottom to the top. Within the doorway is, as a rule, a niche on the right, and a staircase ascending in the thickness of the wall to the left; in front is another similar doorway leading to the chamber in the interior, which is circular, and about 15 ft.

The staircase leads either to a platform on the top of the nuraghe or, more frequently, to a second chamber concentric with the first, lighted by a window which faces, as a rule, in the same direction as the main doorway.

The bowler delivers his bowl with one foot on a mat or footer, made of india-rubber or cocoanut fibre, the size of which is also prescribed by rule as 24 by 16 in., though, with a view to protecting the green, Australasian clubs employ a much larger size, and require the bowler to keep both feet on the mat in the act of delivery.

A single case of homicide often leads to a series of similar crimes or to protracted warfare between neighbouring families and communities; the murderer, as a rule, takes refuge in the mountains from the avenger of blood, or remains for years shut up in his house.

In 640 northern Albania was invaded by the Serbo-Croats; it continued with interruptions under Servian rule till 1360.

Southern Albania and Epirus fell once more under Byzantine rule, which, however, was shaken by numerous revolts.

A zealot for monastic and clerical reform, he introduced a more severe discipline, including the practice of flagellation, into the house, which, under his rule, quickly attained celebrity, and became a model for other foundations.

From 1811 to 1818 Lord Selkirk's attempted colonization greatly increased the population; from the time of his failure till 1869 the settlers lived quietly under the mild rule of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Therefore in a room with an open fire the air is, as a rule, less heated than the walls.

If ever there was a beneficent despotism, it was Jowett's rule as master.

His position is one of great honour and influence, but he remains a simple presbyter, without any special rule or jurisdiction.

They were spoken of as" the way."4 They took with them, into the new communities which they formed, the Jewish polity or rule and oversight by elders.

As a rule elders held office for only two years.

But his measures speedily gave dissatisfaction to the Argentine or Creole party, who had long chafed under the disabilities of Spanish rule, and who now felt themselves no longer bound by ties of loyalty to a country which was in the possession of the French armies.

Its affluents are, on the right, the Aube; the Marne, which joins the Seine at Charenton near Paris; the Oise, which has its source in Belgium and is enlarged by the Aisne; and the Epte; on the left the Yonne, the Loing, the Essonne, the Eure and the RUle.

As a rule the tribes are peaceful.

Charitable institutions take, as a rule, the two forms of outdoor and indoor relief and attendance.

The ratio of criminal proceedings to population is, as a rule, much higher in the south than in the north.

The annual surpluses are largely accounted for by the heavy taxation on almost everything imported into the country, i and by the monopolies on tobacco and on salt; and are as a rule spent, and well spent, in other ways.

The same revolution vested supreme authority in a non-resident and inefficient autocrat, whose title gave him the right to interfere in Italian affairs, but who lacked the power and will to rule the people for his own or their advantage.

Though their rule was favorable to the Romans, they were Arians; and religious differences, combined with the pride and jealousies of a nation accustomed to imperial honors, rendered the inhabitants of Italy eager to throw off their yoke.

Suffice it to say that the rule of the Lombards proved at first far more oppressive to the native population, and was less intelligent of their old customs, than that of the Goths had been.

Under the imperial rule of Lothar the Saxon (1125-1137) and Conrad the Swabian (1138I I 52), these civil wars increased in violence owing to the absence of authority.

The citizens chose him, and voluntarily submitted to his rule.

The only prince who could, with any probability of success, have established the German rule in Italy, his ruin proved the impossibility of that long-cherished scheme.

The resistance to motion round a curve has not been so systematically studied that any definite rule can be formulated applicable to all classes of rolling stock and all radii of curves.

These elevated railways as a rule follow the lines of streets, and are of two general types.

Yet Buddhism has never made much impression west of India, and Islam is clearly repugnant to Europeans, for even when under Moslem rule (as in Turkey) they refuse to accept it in a far larger proportion than did the Hindus in similar circumstances.

In Egypt and in Babylon he appeared as the restorer of the native religions to honour after the unsympathetic rule of the Persians.

The compromise, by which both the candidates should be kings together, was, of course, succeeded by a struggle for power among those who wished to rule in their name.

But already parts of the empire of Alexander had passed from Macedonian rule altogether.

From 83 to 69 is the transient episode of Armenian conquest, and in 64 the last shadow of Seleucid rule vanished, when Syria was made a Roman province by Pompey.

Thenceforward, in the Hellenistic kingdoms of the East the worship of the living sovereign became the rule, although it appears to have been regarded as given in anticipation of an apotheosis which did not become actual till death.