rule
IPA: rˈuɫ
noun
- A regulation, law, guideline.
- A regulating principle.
- The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
- A normal condition or state of affairs.
- (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
- (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
- (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
- A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
- A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
- (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.
- (obsolete) Revelry.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive, stative) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
- (slang, intransitive, stative) To excel.
- (intransitive) To decide judicially.
- (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
- (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
- (obsolete, intransitive) To revel.
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Examples of "rule" in Sentences
- Statecraft is not a law or a set of rules.
- The Laws constitute the rules of the game.
- Impunity is a direct affront to the rule of law.
- The Order adopted the rule of the Teutonic Knights.
- Annex A details the rules for the enactment of laws.
- The Finns believed in democracy and the rule of law.
- The rule of law must prevail over the rule of the mob.
- In positivistic terms, a law is a set of rule and commands.
- On the other hand, the Madelung rule is the basic rule of the Periodic Law.