Noun

(boundaries)

The dividing line or location between two areas.

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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

(cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.

(cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (a four) or 6 (a six) runs respectively for the batting team.

(topology) (of a set) the set of points in the closure of a set $S$, not belonging to the interior of that set.

Noun

(en noun)

A principle or example or measure used for comparison.

# A level of quality or attainment.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=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;

# Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.

#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

the court, which used to be the standard of property and correctness of speech

#* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

# A musical work of established popularity.

# A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.

# The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.

#* (John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)

By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.

# A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.

A vertical pole with something at its apex.

# An object supported in an upright position, such as a .

#* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, chapter=Foreword, title= The China Governess , passage=‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’}}

# The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.

#* Fairfax

His armies, in the following day, / On those fair plains their standards proud display.

# One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.

# Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.

# A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.

#* Sir W. Temple

In France part of their gardens is laid out for flowers, others for fruits; some standards , some against walls.

# The sheth of a plough.

A manual transmission vehicle.

(botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.

(shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.

A large drinking cup.

(Greene)