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Personalized technique of blowing a locomotive whistle, applicable only in the days before the whistles became standardized
Term to indicate a large cup of coffee with milk/cream and sugar. Clearly a parody of the navy's penchant for stamping "NATO Standard" on equipment as part of NATO's bureaucratic drive to standardize parts across all the allies.
Adj. Normal, average, usual. E.g."It was just a bog-standard Christmas, too much food, too much booze and not enough sleep."
The reply from a boat to a challenging ship when members of the Royal Family are present in the boat. "Standard" refers to the Royal Standard.
"The use of intoxicants or narcotics is prohibited"—one of twelve general rules in standard code adopted by Association of American Railroads, based upon previous regulations made by individual companies. Countless thousands of railroad men, especially boomers, have been discharged for violation of Rule G; not because of railroads' objection to liquor itself but because a man under the influence of liquor is not to be trusted in a job involving human lives and property
n no frills. The basic version. So your “bog standard” Volkswagen Golf would be one that doesn’t have electric windows, power steering or opposable thumbs. Well, nowadays a bog-standard Golf probably does have two thirds of those things. There’s no particular reason to believe that the term has anything to do with a toilet (see “bog”).
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A measure for liquids, and also a dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectoliter of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.
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The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampere. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15¡ C.
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The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard.
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Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders.
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A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.
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Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.
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A standard bearer.
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That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard.
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Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees.
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A Russian liquid measure, equal to 3.249 gallons of U. S. standard measure, or 2.706 imperial gallons.
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Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind.
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Not of the dwarf kind; as, a standard pear tree.
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A flag or standard.
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Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge.
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Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.
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The doctrine that utility is the sole standard of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its usefulness.
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A company of troops serving under one standard.
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To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.
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Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything.
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