noun
definition
A measuring rod thirty-six inches (one yard) long.
definition
A standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged.
Examples of yardstick in a Sentence
Use a tape measure or a string that you can then measure with a ruler or yardstick.
Melissa's message was equally upbeat the comprehensive system is simply the best, by any academic or social yardstick.
He continues to say that is the fundamental yardstick of our nation 's economic success.
Hold the string or tape against a yardstick to determine your actual bust measurement.
A good yardstick is ' Am I being bitten?
How a person dealt with that fear was the measure of their strength - and she was coming up short on the yardstick.
For the most part, we measure them all with the same yardstick.
The yardstick of equality has provided much needed guidance.
Melissa 's message was equally upbeat the comprehensive system is simply the best, by any academic or social yardstick.
Before making an order for division of assets, a judge should check his tentative views against the yardstick of equal division.
If we continue to allow our schools to churn out illiterates perhaps we should adopt some similar yardstick of progress for the next government.
His success has become the unofficial yardstick for any overseas executive put in charge of a local firm in trouble.
Secondly, the assessment provides a yardstick with which to measure any change.
He will then find he has a yardstick against which to measure the worth of all other literature on the same subject.
This can be done indirectly by applying the same yardstick to the Marxists and the disciples of Foucault as they apply to others.
Seriousness in security is still measured by the yardstick of expenditure of GDP on military power.
He continues to say that is the fundamental yardstick of our nation's economic success.
Wednesday's game at Derby also offered a useful yardstick by which the Tiger faithful could judge just how far we have come.
My own yardstick for a wall to worktop maximum gap would be no greater than 3mm.
Wednesday 's game at Derby also offered a useful yardstick by which the Tiger faithful could judge just how far we have come.
Productivity growth - what the Chancellor himself called the " the fundamental yardstick of economic performance " - has slumped.
The yardstick for success in the modern world is whether the services we fund deliver their core purpose.
If you don't have a tape measure, use a piece of non-stretchable ribbon to "measure" and then hold the ribbon against a ruler, yardstick or metal tape measure to obtain your measurement.
Use a yardstick or other long stick to stir until the Borax and washing soda powders are completely dissolved.