rule
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
mathematics
media
printing
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English reule, rewle, rule, borrowed from Old French riule, reule, from Latin regula (“straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-; see regent. Doublet of rail, regal, regula, and rigol.
Inflected forms:
form: rules
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rules
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ruling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ruled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ruled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: rule
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: rule
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: ruled
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: rule
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: rulest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: ruled
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: ruledst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: rules
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ruleth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: ruled
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: rule
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: ruled
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: rule
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: ruled
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: rule
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: ruling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ruled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A regulation, law, guideline.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: All participants must adhere to the rules.
You have to follow the rules to enter the qualifiers for the football tournament.
We profess to have embraced a religion which contains the most exact rules for the government of our lives.
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
gloss: A regulating principle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There's little can be said in 't; 'Tis against the rule of nature.
gloss: The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Obey them that have the rule over you.
His stern rule the groaning land obeyed.
gloss: A normal condition or state of affairs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My rule is to rise at six o'clock.
As a rule, our senior editors are serious-minded.
gloss: Conduct; behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: This uncivil rule; she shall know of it.
gloss: An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a rule for extracting the cube root
gloss: A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As we may observe in the Works of Art, a Judicious Artist will indeed use his Eye, but he will trust only to his Rule.
It is not right to pervert the judge by moving him to anger or envy or pity—one might as well warp a carpenter's rule before using it.
gloss: A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
pos: verb
tags: stative
transitive
examples: And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
gloss: To excel.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
stative
examples: This game rules!
gloss: To decide judicially.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
gloss: To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That's a ruled case with the school-men.
gloss: To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: rule
Related words: regulate
regent
regular
principle
test
criterion
rule of thumb
saying
restriction
limitation
limit
constraint
command
prohibition
instruction
procedure
routine
convention
norm
algorithm
word
phrase
sentence
characteristic
property
attribute
predicate
formula
rigid
flexible
legal
constitutional
strict
general
specific
basic
unwritten
unspoken
stupid
silly
clear
confusing
ambiguous
unambiguous
simple
complicated
familiar
strange
clear-cut
straightforward
adhere [⇒ thesaurus] to
administer
draft
follow
obey
comply with
violate
rule maker
regulator
lawgiver
lawmaker
legislator
policy maker
administrator
bureaucrat
violator
drafter
Madison
bureaucracy
government
administration
leeway
freedom
liberty
whim
caprice
subjectivity
unpredictability
exception
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 613. Habit
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 82. Conformity
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