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standard

adj
/ˈstændəd/UK/ˈstændɚd/US/ˈsteə̯ndɚd/

Etymology

From Middle English standard, from Old French estandart (“gathering place, battle flag”), from Frankish *standahard (literally “stand firm, stand hard”), equivalent to stand + -ard. An alternative etymology derives the second element from Frankish *oʀd (“point, spot, place”) (compare Old French ordé (“pointed”), Old English ord (“point, source, vanguard”), German Standort (“location, place, site, position, base”, literally “standing-point”)). Merged with Middle English standar, stander, standere (“flag, banner”, literally “stander”), equivalent to stand + -er. More at stand, hard, ord. As a hill-naming term possibly a calque from Cumbric; equivalent to Welsh lluman (“standard”), arising with confusion with the hill-naming element llumon (“chimney”).

  1. inherited from standar
  2. derived from *oʀd✻ — “point, spot, place”
  3. derived from *standahard✻
  4. derived from estandart — “gathering place, battle flag”
  5. inherited from standard

Definitions

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

  2. Growing alone as a free-standing plant

    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. Having recognized excellence or authority.

    • standard works in history; standard authors
  4. ›+ 16 more definitions

    1. Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.

    2. Having a manual transmission.

    3. As normally supplied (not optional).

    4. Conforming to the standard variety.

    5. A principle or example or measure used for comparison.

    6. A vertical pole with something at its apex.

      • 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.

    7. a cairn or tumulus

    8. A manual transmission vehicle.

    9. The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.

    10. An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical…

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

    11. A large drinking cup.

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

    12. 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.
      • 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.

    13. Ellipsis of standard poodle.

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

    14. A measure for timber.

    15. An expression of agreement.

    16. Denoting the name of a universal language in various works.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at standard. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01standard02power03control04financial05finances06resources07resource08difficulty09achievement10valor

A definitional loop anchored at standard. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at standard

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA