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standard

Measure against which others are compared. For example, until 1960 the standard for the metre was the distance between two lines engraved on a platinum–iridium bar kept at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sèvres, France.



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War was again proclaimed, however, and when the trumpet summoned him to his standard, the Soldier put on his charger its military trappings, and mounted, being clad in his heavy coat of mail.
He can correct his author at a dozen points and estimate the value of these warnings by the standard of a decade of realities.
In those days the Standard Oil Company did not deliver oil to the consumer in big wagons and motor trucks as it does now, but delivered instead to retail grocers, hardware stores, and the like.
 
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