2. s. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
3. s. 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. s. A regulating principle.
5. s. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
6. s. 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. s. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
8. s. (legal) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
9. s. (math) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
a rule for extracting the cube root
10. s. (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.
3. s. A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
4. s. An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
a measure of salt
5. s. The act or result of measuring.
6. s. (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
7. s. A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
Honesty is the true measure of a man.
8. s. Any of various standard units of capacity.
The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.
9. s. A unit of measurement.
10. s. The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
11. s. (now rare) The act or process of measuring.
12. s. A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
13. s. (mathematics, now rare) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor.
the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
14. s. (geology) A bed or stratum.
coal measures; lead measures
15. s. (mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, proba
16. s. Metrical rhythm.
17. s. (now archaic) A melody.
18. s. (now archaic) A dance.
19. s. (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
a poem in iambic measure
20. s. (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a com
21. s. A course of action.
22. s. (in plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
23. s. A piece of legislation.
24. v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
We measured the temperature with a thermometer. You should measure the angle with a spirit level.
25. v. To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
The window measured two square feet.
26. v. To estimate the unit size of something.
I measure that at 10 centimetres.
27. v. To judge, value, or appraise.
28. v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
29. v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
30. v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
31. v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.
menstruation
menstruation
1. s. The periodic discharging of the menses, the flow of blood and cells from the lining of the uterus in unfertilized females of humans and other primates.
