Word Finder - rules

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A regulation, law, guideline.

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All participants must adhere to the rules.

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

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

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A regulating principle.

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

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A normal condition or state of affairs.

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

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Conduct; behaviour.

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

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

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a rule for extracting the cube root

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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.

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To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.

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To excel.

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This game rules!

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To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).

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To decide judicially.

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To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.

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To revel.

The rules are there for a reason.

Everyone has to believe there are rules and that they apply to everyone.

No one will play the game if the rules only apply to one team. 2.

No house rules were broken.

Let us imagine two men who have come out to fight a duel with rapiers according to all the rules of the art of fencing.

He makes his own rules.

I.m not bound by those rules of his.

There are some rules older than time.

Don't let Dusty make all the rules.

Those are the rules, right?

I told her we had house rules; no hanky-panky, but she didn't believe me.

Just remember, house rules still apply.

They play by the rules.

If you want me to follow the rules, I've gotta fix that tonight, she said.

She went to the iPad and tried to focus on reading her rules.

Bartolommeo learned from the younger artist the rules of perspective, in which he was so skilled, while Raphael owes to the frate the improvement in his colouring and handling of drapery, which was noticeable in the works he produced after their meeting.

Besides, house rules protected him from that sort of thing.

Reminded he didn't give Bianca the rules he gave Darian and Sofi, he retrieved his phone.

I don't need to abide by the rules.

If, for some reason, she was stuck here forever, at least he wasn't going to hurt her, as long as she followed his rules.

I don't know what the rules say but he must have enough legal tie to the county to qualify.

A number of Bird Song's more recent guests were bickering over differing rules to Mexican Train Dominoes in the dining room while others were trading Boardwalk and Park Place in the parlor.

If you're going to go to work for the woman—and God knows she needs your help—she has to agree to the rules of engagement.

She'd broken the rules from the time-before-time for a chance with Gabriel.

Breaking all the rules.

He used to frown at her when she acted outside the Immortal Laws, unable to appreciate that a deity charged with managing a domain often had to take steps outside the rules to protect one's underworld.

He had no idea how many rules she broke in her time as Death.

That he understood now how he needed to break rules from time-to-time to preserve his domain was gratifying after years of him judging her for it.

Not accustomed to the rules of this world?

Then there were the rules their father had created about none of the brothers being permitted to kill the others, with the exception of Andre, whose sole purpose in life was to keep the Council on track and protect them.

There's nothing I hate more than a cop who thinks he can make his own rules, Dean.

Vico held God to be the ruler of the world of nations, but ruling, not as the providence of the middle ages by means of continued miracles, but as He rules nature, by means of natural laws.

Equity here is defined to mean "any body of rules existing by the side of the original civil law, founded on distinct principles, and claiming incidentally to supersede the civil law in virtue of a superior sanctity inherent in those principles."

The Discourse of Method and the Meditations apply what the Rules for the Direction of the Mind had regarded in particular instances to our conceptions of the world as a whole.

According to Scottish rules, unless it has been forced clean out of bounds, such a jack is still alive.

In seeking ultimate reality in the circle of "active conscious sensation," he rules out all "metaphysic."

The British army is bound by His Majesty's Rules and Regulations to play at the Philharmonic pitch, and a fork tuned to a' 452.5 in 1890 is preserved as the standard for the Military Training School at Kneller Hall.

On the death of his uncle, however, he left it, owing to the strictness of its rules, and went to Paris, where he devoted himself to writing poetry.

The rules then are sine of the middle part = product of tangents of adjacent parts = product of cosines of opposite parts.

These rules were published in the Canonis Descriptio (1614), and Napier has there given a figure, and indicated.a method, by means of which they may be proved directly.

He defined almost every principle that governed commercial transactions in such a manner that his successors had only to apply the rules he had laid down.

The rules of the Scribes enumerated thirty-nine main kinds of work forbidden on the Sabbath, and each of these prohibitions gave rise to new subtilties.

She finds that he believes that God rules the world, but does not know what he himself is; and this absence of self-knowledge is the cause of his weakness.

The total duration of the earth they fix at four hundred and eighty thousand years, divided into seven epochs, in each of which one of the planets rules.

In the first sense the word is used either in the abstract, for jurisprudence generally or for a state of things in which the laws of a country are duly observed ("law and order"), or in the concrete for some particular rule or body of rules.

The Visitation is the personal inspection of institutions, churches, religious establishments and their personnel, to correct abuses The Visit- p and enforce the observation of rules.

St Benedict's rule was a new creation in monastic history; and as it rapidly supplanted all other monastic rules in western Europe, and was for several centuries the only form of monasticism in Latin Christianity (outside of Ireland), it is necessary to speak in some little detail of its spirit and inner character.'

The life was fully cenobitical, regulated in all details by minute rules, and with prayer and meals in common.

The recruiting superintending committee, travelling through districts, supervise every ballot, and work under stringent rules which render systematic bribery difficult.

Natasha and Pierre, left alone, also began to talk as only a husband and wife can talk, that is, with extraordinary clearness and rapidity, understanding and expressing each other's thoughts in ways contrary to all rules of logic, without premises, deductions, or conclusions, and in a quite peculiar way.