standard

adjectif

1. 1

   Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.

2. 2

   Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.

   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 […].

3. 3

   Having recognized excellence or authority.

   standard works in history; standard authors

4. 4

   Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.

5. 5

   Having a manual transmission.

6. 6

   As normally supplied (not optional or modified by any extra requests).

   This is the standard model, but we offer a variety of customization options.

   Although marketed by Daimler as standard equipment, Triton requested that Daimler deliver the 2022 truck-tractor without collision avoidance technology. As a result, Triton received a cost discount on its truck order, which included this truck. Triton told the NTSB that the owner and several of the drivers had field-tested an earlier version of the equipment, and they did not like its performance.

   A study funded by the FMCSA found that although several heavy-vehicle manufacturers have voluntarily made AEB “standard” on many new truck models, they also offer “deletion credits” to customers who choose to remove AEB, which provides customers financial incentive to forego the technology and which ultimately reduces voluntary adoption rates

7. 7

   Conforming to the standard variety.

nom

1. 1

   A principle or example or measure used for comparison. 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.

   The station consisted of two tents and a 10-by-15-foot wooden laboratory shack—luxurious accommodations by Arctic standards.

2. 2

   A principle or example or measure used for comparison. Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.

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

   A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

3. 3

   A principle or example or measure used for comparison. A musical work of established popularity.

4. 4

   A principle or example or measure used for comparison. A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.

   The Biden administration finalized the first national standard to limit dangerous “forever chemicals” found in nearly half of the drinking water in the United States.

   In stark opposition to what CBS editorial leadership told staff on Monday, Redstone said that she did not believe Dokoupil had violated the network’s editorial standards when he grilled Coates over the contents of his new book.

5. 5

   A principle or example or measure used for comparison. 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.

6. 6

   A principle or example or measure used for comparison. standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language.

7. 7

   A principle or example or measure used for comparison. A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.

8. 8

   A principle or example or measure used for comparison. Grade level in primary or secondary education.

   I am in fifth standard.

   I finished my twelfth standard with less than stellar marks.

9. 9

   A vertical pole with something at its apex. 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.

10. 10

    A vertical pole with something at its apex. The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.

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

11. 11

    A vertical pole with something at its apex. One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.

12. 12

    A vertical pole with something at its apex. Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.

13. 13

    A vertical pole with something at its apex. A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.

14. 14

    A vertical pole with something at its apex. 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, [...]

    It [Loranthus europaeus] grows chiefly on the branches of standards over coppice.

15. 15

    A vertical pole with something at its apex. The sheth of a plough.

16. 16

    A cairn or tumulus.

17. 17

    A cairn or tumulus. A hill with a cairn or tumulus at its summit.

18. 18

    A manual transmission vehicle.

19. 19

    The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.

20. 20

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

21. 21

    A large drinking cup.

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

22. 22

    historiqueA 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.

    Goldsmiths also made gold and silver mail for the decorations of helmets and gorgets. The will of Duke Philip the Good shows that he owned a mail standard (collar) made of solid gold.

    The throat and upper chest was protected by the gorget plate, mail standard or a metal wrapper. Whichever helm Richard chose to wear, it might have had a keyhole at the top to allowed insignia to be inserted.

    [page 286:] A defense for the neck variously described as a combination of gorget and bevor worn with a salade, and as a standard of mail, or collar, worn under the plate gorget. [page 426:] Baron de Cosson says (Helmets and Mail 110): “Thus in the British Museum there is a standard of mail of which the rings of the top edge are exceedingly close and stiff, […]"

23. 23

    A measure for timber.

    To clear the fallen timber quickly, arrangements were made between British Railways and the Home Timber Merchant's Association of Scotland for the purchase of timber in the form of sleepers, crossing timbers, and wagon timbers. These arrangements have now terminated, and since the storm a total of 19,000 standards of timber have been purchased by British Railways at a cost of £1,250,000.

24. 24

    Variante de standard poodleEllipsis of standard poodle.

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

interjection

1. 1

   argotAn expression of agreement.

Formes

pluriel

standards

superlatif

most standard