There are women who cannot grow alone asstandard trees;—for whom the support and warmth of some wall, some paling, some post, is absolutely necessary […].
Although marketed by Daimler asstandard equipment, Triton requested that Daimler deliver the 2022 truck-tractor without collision avoidance technology. As a result, Triton received a cost discount on its truck order, which included this truck. Triton told the NTSB that the owner and several of the drivers had field-tested an earlier version of the equipment, and they did not like its performance.
A study funded by the FMCSA found that although several heavy-vehicle manufacturers have voluntarily made AEB “standard” on many new truck models, they also offer “deletion credits” to customers who choose to remove AEB, which provides customers financial incentive to forego the technology and which ultimately reduces voluntary adoption rates
A mail standard of the 16th century; the transition between the more densely linked upstanding throat/neck part and the less densely linked shoulder section of the collar can be seen.
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his oldstandard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
1983 December 3, Jolanta Benal, “Spandex, Sousa, Bad Politics”, inGay Community News, volume11, number20, page 6:
I was disappointed when the concert ended with a "Tribute to Irving Berlin" that included "God Bless America" and two John Philip Sousa numbers, the "Washington Post" and "Stars and Stripes Forever."[…] I think it's wrong, wrong, wrong for a gay band to play music that celebrates the martial life. There's plenty of other rousing music around, so how about dumping some of those armed forcesstandards.
A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
2024 April 10, Jen Christiensen, “Biden administration sets first national standard to limit ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water”, inCNN[1]:
The Biden administration finalized the first nationalstandard to limit dangerous “forever chemicals” found in nearly half of the drinking water in the United States.
2024 October 9, Hadas Gold, Liam Reilly and Brian Stelter, “Shari Redstone says CBS leaders made ‘bad mistake’ with handling of Ta-Nehisi Coates interview fallout”, inCNN[2]:
In stark opposition to what CBS editorial leadership told staff on Monday, Redstone said that she did not believe Dokoupil had violated the network’s editorialstandards when he grilled Coates over the contents of his new book.
The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established forcoinage.
1727,John Arbuthnot,Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations:
By the presentstandard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.
It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lampstandard and the second from the next down there.
(shipbuilding) An invertedkneetimber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
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.
1992, Matthias Pfaffenbichler, British Museum,Armourers:
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 mailstandard (collar) made of solid gold.
2008, Josephine Wilkinson,Richard III: The Young King to be, Amberley Publishing Limited,→ISBN:
The throat and upper chest was protected by the gorget plate, mailstandard 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.
2013, George Cameron Stone,A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times, Courier Corporation,→ISBN:
[page 286:] A defense for the neck variously described as a combination of gorget and bevor worn with a salade, and as astandard of mail, or collar, worn under the plate gorget. [page 426:] Baron de Cosson says (Helmets and Mail 110): “Thus in the British Museum there is astandard of mail of which the rings of the top edge are exceedingly close and stiff,[…]"
2016, Ivor Noel Hume, Audrey Noel Hume,The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred: Part 1, Interpretive Studies; Part 2, Artifact Catalog, University of Pennsylvania Press,→ISBN, page151:
Mail was also used to provide skirts substituting for tassets, for collars called "standards" substituting for gorgets, as well as for coats (long) and shirts (short). Consequently finding a few links gives little or no clue to their source. The few from the Fort, however, include copper-alloy (brass?) links, ...
1955 April, “Wind-Blown Timber for B.R.”, inRailway Magazine, page271:
To clear the fallen timber quickly, arrangements were made between British Railways and the Home Timber Merchant's Association of Scotland for the purchase of timber in the form of sleepers, crossing timbers, and wagon timbers. These arrangements have now terminated, and since the storm a total of 19,000standards of timber have been purchased by British Railways at a cost of £1,250,000.
^William John Watson (1926),Celtic Place-Names of Scotland, Edinburgh: Birlinn,→ISBN, page212
^Jack Croft Richards; Richard W. Schmidt (2010),Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, Pearson Education Limited,→ISBN, page554
