Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word RULE
RULE
Definitions of RULE
- A regulation, law, guideline.
- A regulating principle.
- A normal condition or state of affairs.
- A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
- (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
- (legal) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
- (math) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
- 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.
- (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) Revelry.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To revel.
- A surname.
- (uncountable) The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
- A ucomm in Carroll County, Arkansas, USA.
- A town in Haskell County, Texas, USA.
Number of letters
4
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using RULE in a Sentence
- It is thus an attribute of any idea or statement whose intended meaning cannot be definitively resolved, according to a rule or process with a finite number of steps.
- In propositional logic, associativity is a valid rule of replacement for expressions in logical proofs.
- He had a lasting effect on Italy and the Pannonian Basin; in the former, his invasion marked the beginning of centuries of Lombard rule, and in the latter, his defeat of the Gepids and his departure from Pannonia ended the dominance there of the Germanic peoples.
- Under Alfred's rule, considerable administrative and military reforms were introduced, prompting lasting change in England.
- Her status as an independent female monarch, and obvious affinity for Roman culture, caused discontent among the Gothic nobles in her court, and she was deposed and killed after six months of sole rule.
- These troops, returning home from a disastrous military expedition to Cyrene in Libya, suspected that they had been betrayed in order that Apries, the reigning king, might rule more absolutely by means of his Greek mercenaries; many Egyptians fully sympathized with them.
- Leaders of the American Revolution were colonial separatist leaders who originally sought more autonomy as British subjects, but later assembled to support the Revolutionary War, which ended British colonial rule over the colonies, establishing their independence as the United States of America in July 1776.
- 1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan II.
- The city underwent several periods of foreign rule or domination before Assyria rose under Ashur-uballit I in the early 14th century BC as the Middle Assyrian Empire.
- They were afforded relative security against persecution, provided they did not contest the varying inferior social and legal status imposed on them under Islamic rule.
- Administrative law includes executive branch rule making (executive branch rules are generally referred to as "regulations"), adjudication, and the enforcement of laws.
- The umpires determine whether the runner is safe or out at the next base, but the official scorer rules on the question of credit or blame for the advance under Rule 10 (Rules of Scoring) of the MLB's Official Rules.
- In mathematics, a binary operation or dyadic operation is a rule for combining two elements (called operands) to produce another element.
- Baptist churches generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul competency (the responsibility and accountability of every person before God), sola fide (salvation by just faith alone), sola scriptura (the scripture of the Bible alone, as the rule of faith and practice) and congregationalist church government.
- During this period, Bengal's rule and influence spread to Assam, Arakan, Tripura, Bihar, and Orissa.
- The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy that proclaimed that any threat to "socialist rule" in any state of the Soviet Bloc in Central and Eastern Europe was a threat to all of them, and therefore, it justified the intervention of fellow socialist states.
- He united most of Western and Central Europe, and was the first recognised emperor to rule from the west after the fall of the Western Roman Empire approximately three centuries earlier.
- During German rule, It was set up in the protectorate of Kamerun the first telegraph line, the first telephone line, and the first wireless telegraph.
- Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule.
- Features common across versions of the Copenhagen interpretation include the idea that quantum mechanics is intrinsically indeterministic, with probabilities calculated using the Born rule, and the principle of complementarity, which states that objects have certain pairs of complementary properties that cannot all be observed or measured simultaneously.
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