(n.) A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign.
(n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard.
(n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test.
(n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority.
(n.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
(n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
(n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.
(n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
(n.) The sheth of a plow.
(n.) A large drinking cup.
(a.) Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.
(a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.
(a.) Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees.
(a.) Not of the dwarf kind; as, a standard pear tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(2) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(3) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(4) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
(5) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(6) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
(7) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(8) Since interferon alfa-2b (Intron A) is useful as a single agent, it is important to determine if interferon can be combined with standard chemotherapy to improve both response and survival in patients with cancer.
(9) Lysis of EAC4b,3b cellular intermediates formed to contain a low surface amount of C3b was more inhibited than was lysis of cells formed with a standard amount of C3b on the surface.
(10) The detection of these antibodies is difficult owing to the lack of standardization and of specificity of the laboratory tests.
(11) We have compared two new methods (a solvent extraction technique and a method involving a disposable, pre-packed reverse phase chromatography cartridge) with the standard method for determining the radiochemical purity of 99Tcm-HMPAO.
(12) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(13) The UK's standard position on ICC indictees is to avoid all contact unless "essential".
(14) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
(15) This suggests that molars do not maintain a fixed relationship to incisors over time, and extreme care must be taken to standardize an experiment to a specific body weight when using this method.
(16) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(17) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(18) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(19) A technique, using Nuclepore polycarbonate membrane filters as a containing medium for very small volumes of ionic standard solutions, to produce homogeneous ice standards is described.
(20) A number of variables which could influence the test has been evaluated and standardized in a way suitable for the routinary use of the technique described.
Vernacular
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.
(n.) The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
Example Sentences:
(1) The perception that high-achieving businesswomen are more vulnerable than their male counterparts to being abruptly fired – pushed off the "glass cliff" in the contemporary corporate vernacular – has been borne out by a new study from a global management consultancy.
(2) "Counter to the notion of modernity as an all-consuming phenomenon," say the curators, the youngest of the bunch aged 30, "a study of our everyday interiors reveals a vernacular architecture in which it seems that modernity itself is being consumed and absorbed."
(3) For each species listed, the family, the botanical name, the voucher specimen number, the vernacular name, the pharmacological and therapeutical properties are given.
(4) Its dictionary definition is “a Scots word meaning scrotum, in Scots vernacular a term of endearment but in English could be taken as an insult”.
(5) His adrenalin-pumping shows are woven into American life, yet subvert its capitalist fundamentals, that innate American principle of screw-thy-neighbour, in favour of what he insists to be "real" America – working class, militant, street-savvy, tough but romantic, nomadic but with roots – compiled into what feels like a single epic but vernacular rock-opera lasting four decades.
(6) James is establishing a standard, and he is doing so in a manner that underscores he is a student of political change, not just a parrot of its vernacular.
(7) Twelve medicinal drugs have been identified by chemical investigations and are presented in one table with the vernacular names (in Dari, Pasto and Kati); the origins and the therapeutical uses are listed in another table with their cultural background in pre-Islamic (Greek and Indian medicines) and Islamic pharmacopoeia (Afghano-Persian and Arabian medicines).
(8) Already in 1215 itself the Charter had been translated from Latin into French, the vernacular language of the nobility.
(9) Now, climate change has passed into the vernacular.
(10) Even before Glass was released, there were movements to limit its use, with the term “glasshole” rapidly entering the vernacular.
(11) And I try, recognising the vernacular of the films in which I work, to have some degree of reality within the beautifying forces of that machine.
(12) A therapeutic model of communicative pathology is proposed for children who speak black English vernacular.
(13) Would others see the strength in Jim’s choice of giving up his own name to gift our family that illusive sense of unity or would they believe he was, to use the vernacular , “under the thumb”?
(14) The first was the development of a new approach to crime, or the prospect of it, based on what the policy wonk vernacular calls multi-agency prevention.
(15) The Sex Respect Program may have contributed to more change because it used the student's vernacular and had better visual aids.
(16) Whereas al-Qaida is elitist and detached from ordinary Muslims, Isis tends to be more vernacular in the way it addresses its audience and their grievances and aspirations.
(17) Princes did try to control it and Catholic countries were far worse than the emerging Protestant ones – for whom the vernacular translation of the bible was transforming – but they went with the technological flow.
(18) Their numbers amaze and please me and they still keep coming as new titles are translated and some fresh vernacular markets - Hindi, Vietnamese - open up.
(19) At the end of May, the terms "top kill" and "junk shot" entered the worldwide vernacular , as BP tried to force heavy mud, and later golf balls and bits of tyre through the blow-out preventer.
(20) I use the verb “release” because it’s common vernacular.