rule

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A regulation, law, guideline. countable,uncountable
    — All participants must adhere to the rules.
  2. Revelry. obsolete
  3. A regulating principle. countable,uncountable
    — There's little can be said in 't; 'Tis against the rule of nature.
  4. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control. uncountable
    — Obey them that have the rule over you.
  5. A normal condition or state of affairs. countable,uncountable
    — My rule is to rise at six o'clock.
  6. Conduct; behaviour. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — This uncivil rule; she shall know of it.
  7. An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit. countable,uncountable
  8. A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result. countable,uncountable
    — a rule for extracting the cube root
  9. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  10. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing. countable,uncountable
  11. 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. countable,dated,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over. stative,transitive
    — And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
  2. To revel. intransitive,obsolete
  3. To excel. intransitive,slang,stative
    — This game rules!
  4. To decide judicially. intransitive
    — The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
  5. To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice. transitive
    — That's a ruled case with the school-men.
  6. To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines). transitive

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
rule
相关词
regulate regent regular principle test criterion rule of thumb saying restriction limitation limit constraint command prohibition instruction procedure routine convention norm algorithm word phrase sentence characteristic property attribute predicate formula rigid flexible legal constitutional strict general specific basic unwritten unspoken stupid silly clear confusing ambiguous unambiguous simple complicated familiar strange clear-cut straightforward adhere [⇒ thesaurus] to administer draft follow obey comply with violate rule maker regulator lawgiver lawmaker legislator policy maker administrator bureaucrat violator drafter Madison bureaucracy government administration leeway freedom liberty whim caprice subjectivity unpredictability exception Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 613. Habit Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 82. Conformity

词源

词源 1
From Middle English reule, rewle, rule, borrowed from Old French riule, reule, from Latin regula (“straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-; see regent. Doublet of rail, regal, regula, and rigol.
词源 2
From Middle English reulen, rulen, borrowed from Old French riuler, from Latin regulāre (“to regulate, rule”), from regula (“a rule”); see regular and regulate.
词源 3
Related to revel.
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