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standard
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from the Old French estandart (“gathering place, battle flag”), from Old Frankish *standhard (literally “stand firm, stand hard”), equivalent to stand +? -ard. Alternative etymology derives the second element from Old Frankish *ord (“point, spot, place”) (compare Old English ord (“point, source, vanguard”), German Standort (“location, place, site, position, base”, literally “standing-point”)). More at stand, hard, ord.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?stænd?d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?stænd??d/, [?ste?nd?d]
- Hyphenation: stan?dard
Adjective
standard (comparative more standard, superlative most standard)
- Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
- (of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
- 1863, Anthony Trollope, Rachel Ray:
- There are women who cannot grow alone as standard trees;—for whom the support and warmth of some wall, some paling, some post, is absolutely necessary […].
- 1863, Anthony Trollope, Rachel Ray:
- Having recognized excellence or authority.
- standard works in history; standard authors
- Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
- (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
- As normally supplied (not optional).
- (linguistics) Conforming to the standard variety.
Antonyms
- nonstandard, non-standard
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
standard (plural standards)
- A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
- A level of quality or attainment.
- Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
- 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue
- the court, which used to be the standard of propriety and correctness of speech
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
- 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue
- A musical work of established popularity.
- A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
- The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
- 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations
- By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.
- 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations
- A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
- (India) Grade level in primary education.
- A level of quality or attainment.
- A vertical pole with something at its apex.
- An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
- The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
- His armies, in the following day, / On those fair plains their standards proud display.
- One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
- Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
- 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.
- The sheth of a plough.
- An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
- A manual transmission vehicle.
- (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
- (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
- A large drinking cup.
- (sociolinguistics) standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Interjection
standard
- (slang) An expression of agreement
References
Anagrams
- Randstad, sand dart
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?standart]
Noun
standard m
- standard
Related terms
See also
- norma
- m??ítko
Further reading
- standard in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- standard in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Etymology
From English standard.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?stan?dar?t/, [?sd?an?d????d?]
- Homophone: standart
Noun
standard c (singular definite standarden, plural indefinite standarder)
- standard
Inflection
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English standard.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??.da?/
Noun
standard m (plural standards)
- standard
- switchboard
Adjective
standard (feminine singular standarde, masculine plural standards, feminine plural standardes)
- standard
Usage notes
- Often treated as invariable (with the single form standard used for masculine and feminine, singular and plural), but dictionary accounts vary.
Synonyms
- normal
References
Further reading
- “standard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Alternative forms
- standar (misspelling)
Etymology
Borrowed from English.
Adjective
standard (invariable)
- standard
Noun
standard m (invariable)
- standard
Related terms
- standardizzare
- standardizzazione
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old French estandart, via English standard
Adjective
standard (singular and plural standard, comparative mer standard, superlative mest standard)
- standard
Noun
standard m (definite singular standarden, indefinite plural standarder, definite plural standardene)
- a standard
Derived terms
- levestandard
References
- “standard” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “standard_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “standard_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old French estandart, via English standard
Adjective
standard (singular and plural standard, comparative meir standard, superlative mest standard)
- standard
Noun
standard m (definite singular standarden, indefinite plural standardar, definite plural standardane)
- a standard
Derived terms
- levestandard
References
- “standard” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From English standard, from Middle English, from Old French estandart (“gathering place, battle flag”), from Old Frankish *standhard (literally “stand firm, stand hard”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?stan.dart/
Noun
standard m inan
- standard
Declension
Derived terms
- (noun) standaryzacja
- (adjective) standardowy
Further reading
- standard in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- standard in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From French standard.
Noun
standard n (plural standarde)
- standard
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?ndard/
- Hyphenation: stan?dard
Noun
stàndard m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)
- standard
Declension
Swedish
Noun
standard c
- a standard, a norm
Declension
Related terms
- standardisera
See also
- standar
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specimen
English
Etymology
From Latin specimen (“mark, sign, example”), from speci? (“observe, watch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp?s?m?n/
- Hyphenation: spe?ci?men
Noun
specimen (plural specimens or (extremely rare) specimina)
- An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
- early specimens of the art of Picasso
- (numismatics) A banknote printed for distribution to central banks to aid in the recognition of banknotes from a country other than their own
- (philately) A postage stamp sent to postmasters and postal administrations so that they are able to identify valid stamps and to avoid forgeries
- A sample, especially one used for diagnostic analysis.
- (humorous, often preceded with “fine”) An eligible man.
Synonyms
- sample
- individual
Related terms
- species
Translations
Interlingua
Noun
specimen (plural specimens)
- specimen, sample
Latin
Etymology
From speci? (“observe, watch”) +? -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?spe.ki.men/, [?s?p?k?m?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?spe.t??i.men/, [?sp??t??im?n]
Noun
specimen n (genitive speciminis); third declension
- mark, token, sign, indication
- example, pattern, model
- ornament, honor
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Descendants
- Catalan: espècimen
- English: specimen
- French: specimen
- Portuguese: espécime
- Spanish: espécimen
References
- specimen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- specimen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- specimen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- specimen in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Romanian
Etymology
From French spécimen.
Noun
specimen n (plural specimene)
- specimen
Declension
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- what specimens need to be protected from light
- what specimen should be protected from light
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- what specimen is used to inoculate an enterotube
- what specimens require protection from light
- what specimens can be centrifuged immediately
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