English Dictionary

standard

/ˈstændəd/

noun

A level of quality or attainment. / Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model. / A musical work of established popularity.

This product meets the highest standards of quality.

意味（1）

A level of quality or attainment.

The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.

意味（2）

Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.

the court, which used to be the standard of propriety and correctness of speech

意味（3）

A musical work of established popularity.

意味（4）

A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.

意味（5）

The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.

By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.

意味（6）

(sociolinguistics) standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language

意味（7）

A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.

意味（8）

(India) Grade level in primary education.

I finished my twelfth standard with less than stellar marks.

意味（9）

An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.

It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.

意味（10）

The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.

His armies, in the following day, / On those fair plains their standards proud display.

意味（11）

One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.

意味（12）

Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.

意味（13）

A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.

意味（14）

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.

In the more temperate parts of France [gardens are] part laid out for Flowers, others for Fruits, ſome Standards, ſome againſt Walls or Paliſades, …

意味（15）

The sheth of a plough.

意味（16）

A manual transmission vehicle.

意味（17）

(botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.

意味（18）

(shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.

意味（19）

A large drinking cup.

Frolic, my lords; let all the standards walk, / Ply it till every man hath ta’en his load.

意味（20）

(historical) A collar of mail protecting the neck.

The scales generally showed on the face of the garment or defence, and we find body armour, gorgets, habergeons, standards or neck defences, and even the camailt of this class of armour.

意味（21）

Short for standard poodle.

Since standards are large dogs, they grow much more rapidly than miniatures and toys, which means that they require more supplements.