Bridle vs Rule - What's the difference?
bridle | rule | Synonyms |
The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins.
* 1961 , J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês," Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92, p. 457:
(figurative) A restraint; a curb; a check.
A length of line or cable attached to two parts of something to spread the force of a pull, as the rigging on a kite for attaching line.
A mooring hawser.
A piece in the interior of a gunlock which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc.
To put a bridle on.
* Drake
To check, restrain, or control with, or as if with, a bridle; as in bridle your tongue .
* Burke
To show hostility or resentment.
A regulation, law, guideline.
* Tillotson
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
* South
A straight line , especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
A regulating principle.
* c. 1604, William Shakespeare, All's well that ends well , Act I, scene I:
The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
* Bible, Hebrews xiii. 17
* Alexander Pope
A normal condition or state of affairs.
(obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
* Shakespeare
(legal) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
(math) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
(printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
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, title= (slang) To excel.
To mark (paper or the like) with (lines).
To decide judicially.
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, volume=189, issue=2, page=10, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
* Atterbury
Bridle is a synonym of rule.
As verbs the difference between bridle and rule
is that bridle is to put a bridle on while rule is .As a noun bridle
is the headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins.bridle
English
(wikipedia bridle)Noun
(en noun)- the horseman, who is the user of bridles and knows their use
Derived terms
* bridle path * bridlewiseVerb
(bridl)- He bridled her mouth with a silkweed twist.
- Savoy and Nice, the keys of Italy, and the citadel in her hands to bridle Switzerland, are in that consolidation.
- Immigrant-rights and religious organizations bridled at the plan to favor highly skilled workers over relatives.'' (''Houston Chronicle , 6/8/2007)
Derived terms
* unbridleSynonyms
* restrainrule
English
Noun
(en noun)- We profess to have embraced a religion which contains the most exact rules for the government of our lives.
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- A judicious artist will use his eye, but he will trust only to his rule .
- There's little can be said in 't; 'Tis against the rule of nature.
- Obey them that have the rule over you.
- His stern rule the groaning land obeyed.
- My rule is to rise at six o'clock.
- This uncivil rule ; she shall know of it.
- (Wharton)
- a rule for extracting the cube root
Derived terms
* exception that proves the rule * golden rule * rule of action * rule of law * rule of thumb * silver rule * slide rule * there is an exception to every ruleVerb
(rul)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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 must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}
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US rules human genes can't be patented, passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.}}
- That's a ruled case with the schoolmen.