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English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishreule,rewle,rule, borrowed fromOld Frenchriule,reule, fromLatinregula(“straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern”), fromregō(“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*h₃réǵeti(“to straighten; right”), from the root*h₃reǵ-; seeregent.Doublet ofrail,regal,regula, andrigol.

Noun

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rule (countable anduncountable,pluralrules)

  1. Aregulation,law,guideline.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:rule
    All participants must adhere to therules.
    • a.1694,John Tillotson,Of The Obligations of Christians to a Holy Life:
      We profess to have embraced a religion which contains the most exactrules for the government of our lives.
    • 2013 June 22, “T time”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8841, page68:
      The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current taxrules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
  2. A regulating principle.
  3. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
  4. A normal condition orstate of affairs.
    Myrule is to rise at six o'clock.
    As arule, our senior editors are serious-minded.
  5. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
  6. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to anaction or asuit.
  7. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
    arule for extracting the cube root
  8. Aruler; device for measuring, astraightedge, ameasure.
    • a.1716,Robert South,Sermons‎[1]:
      As we may observe in the Works of Art, a Judicious Artist will indeed use his Eye, but he will trust only to hisRule.
    • 1981,Aristotle, “Rhetoric, the Counterpart of Dialectic”, in W. Rhys Roberts, Ingram Bywater, transl.,Rhetoric and On Poetics, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library,→OL:
      It is not right to pervert the judge by moving him to anger or envy or pity—one might as well warp a carpenter'srule before using it.
  9. Astraightline(continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as aguide forwriting.
  10. (printing, dated) A thinplate ofbrass or other metal, of the same height as thetype, and used for printing lines, as betweencolumns on the same page, or intabular work.
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Terms derived from the nounrule
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Collocations
  • legal rules
  • constitutional rule
  • strict rules
  • general rules
  • specific rules
  • basic rules
  • unwritten rules
  • unspoken rules
  • rigid rules
  • stupid rules
  • silly rules
Translations
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regulation
straight-edge—seeruler
the act of ruling; control
a normal condition or state of affairs

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishreulen,rulen, borrowed fromOld Frenchriuler, fromLatinregulāre(“to regulate, rule”), fromregula(“a rule”); seeregular andregulate.

Verb

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rule (third-person singular simple presentrules,present participleruling,simple past and past participleruled)

  1. (transitive, stative) Toregulate, be in charge of, make decisions for,reign over.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      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 mustrule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
  2. (slang, intransitive, stative) Toexcel.
    Synonyms:(slang)rock;see alsoThesaurus:excel
    Antonyms:stink,(vulgar slang)suck
    This gamerules!
  4. (intransitive) Todecidejudicially.
  5. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
  6. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) withrules(lines).
Conjugation
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Conjugation ofrule
infinitive(to)rule
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularruleruled
2nd-personsingularrule,rulest†ruled,ruledst†
3rd-personsingularrules,ruleth†ruled
pluralrule
subjunctiveruleruled
imperativerule—
participlesrulingruled
Derived terms
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Terms derived fromrule (verb)
Translations
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to regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over
slang: to excel
to mark with lines
to decide judicially

Etymology 3

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Related torevel.

Noun

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rule

  1. (obsolete)Revelry.

Verb

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rule (third-person singular simple presentrules,present participleruling,simple past and past participleruled)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) Torevel.

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Noun

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rule f

  1. dative/locativesingular ofrula

Igala

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Compare withYorubasáré

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rúlé

  1. torun

Spanish

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Verb

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rule

  1. inflection ofrular:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative
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