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Paragon vs Yardstick - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between paragon and yardstick

is that paragon is a person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality while yardstick is a measuring rod thirty-six inches long.

As a verb paragon

is to compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.

paragon

English

(wikipedia paragon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality.
    • In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Man, the paragon of animals!
  • * Emerson
    • The riches of sweet Mary's son, / Boy-rabbi, Israel's paragon .
  • * '>citation
  • (obsolete) A companion; a match; an equal.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister
    (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) Comparison; competition.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ix:
    • good by paragone / Of euill, may more notably be rad, / As white seemes fairer, macht with blacke attone [...].
  • (typography) A size of type between great primer and double pica.
  • A flawless diamond of at least 100 carats.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.
    • (Sir Philip Sidney)
  • To compare with; to equal; to rival.
    • (Spenser)
  • * Glover
    • In arms anon to paragon the morn, / The morn new rising.
  • To serve as a model for; to surpass.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description and wild fame.
  • To be equal; to hold comparison.

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    yardstick

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia yardstick)
  • A measuring rod thirty-six inches long.
  • (figuratively) A standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged.
  • * 2008 April 8, Michael R. Gordon and Eric Schmitt, “Attacks in Baghdad spiked in March, U.S. data show”, in , 2008 April 8 edition, “Africa & Middle East” section,
    • Attacks against civilians in the capital remained relatively unchanged: 69 in March from 62 in February. ¶ However, another yardstick , the number of civilian deaths tracked by the Iraqi government, shot up last month after several months of decline.

    Derived terms

    * Portsmouth yardstick