different between rule vs institute

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?u?l/, [?u??]
• Rhymes: -u?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English reule, rewle, rule, borrowed from Old French riule, reule, itself an early semi-learned borrowing from Latin regula (“straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern”), from reg? (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”); see regent.

Noun

rule (countable and uncountable, plural rules)

1. A regulation, law, guideline.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, Of The Obligations of Christians to a Holy Life

     We profess to have embraced a religion which contains the most exact rules for the government of our lives.
2. A regulating principle.
   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, All's well that ends well, Act I, scene I

     There's little can be said in 't; 'Tis against the rule of nature.

3. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
4. A normal condition or state of affairs.

   My rule is to rise at six o'clock.

5. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
6. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.

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7. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.

   a rule for extracting the cube root

8. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
   • a. 1716, Robert South, Sermons

     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.

9. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
10. (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.

Derived terms

Related terms

• regulate
• regent
• regular

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rulen, borrowed from Old French riuler, from Latin regul?re (“to regulate, rule”), from regula (“a rule”); see regular and regulate.

Verb

rule (third-person singular simple present rules, present participle ruling, simple past and past participle ruled)

1. (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
2. (slang, intransitive) To excel.

3. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
4. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
   • 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to some Considerations, the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation

     That's a ruled case with the school-men.

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

Synonyms

• (to excel): rock (also slang)

Antonyms

• (to excel): suck (vulgar slang)

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Related to revel.

Noun

rule

1. (obsolete) Revelry.

Verb

rule (third-person singular simple present rules, present participle ruling, simple past and past participle ruled)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To revel.

Further reading

• rule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rule in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ReLU, Ruel, lure

Spanish

Verb

rule

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rular.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rular.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rular.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rular.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nst?t(j)u?t/, /??nst?t?u?t/

Etymology 1

From French institut, from Middle French, from Latin ?nstit?tum.

Noun

institute (plural institutes)

1. An organization founded to promote a cause

2. An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
3. The building housing such an institution
4. (obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.
5. (obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
   • 1837, Robert Huish, The History of the Life and Reign of William IV, the Reform Monarch of England,

     They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.

   • to make the Stoic institutes thy own

6. (law, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.

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Derived terms

• educational institute
• research institute
• academic institute

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Latin ?nstit?tus, past participle of ?nstitu? (“I set up, place upon, purpose, begin, institute”), from in (“in, on”) + statu? (“set up, establish”).

Verb

institute (third-person singular simple present institutes, present participle instituting, simple past and past participle instituted)

1. (transitive) To begin or initiate (something); to found.

   He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.

   • 1776, Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence:

     Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To train, instruct.

   • Publius was the first that ever instituted the Souldier to manage his armes by dexteritie and skil, and joyned art unto vertue, not for the use of private contentions, but for the wars and Roman peoples quarrels.

   • a. 1684, author unknown, Gentleman's Calling

     If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself.

3. To nominate; to appoint.
4. (ecclesiastical, law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.

Translations

Adjective

institute (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Established; organized; founded.
   • 1551, Ralph Robinson (sometimes spelt Raphe Robynson) (translator), Utopia (originally written by Sir Thomas More)

     They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice.

Related terms

• institution
• institutional

Further reading

• institute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• institute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• institute at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Participle

?nstit?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ?nstit?tus

References

• institute in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)