Standard vs Essential - What's the difference?
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A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
# A level of quality or attainment.
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# Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
#* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
# 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)
# 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 .
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, chapter=Foreword, title= # The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
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# 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.
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# 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.
Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
(of a tree or shrub) Growing on an erect stem of full height.
Having recognized excellence or authority.
Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
(not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
As normally supplied (not optional).
Necessary.
Very important; of high importance.
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, title=Money just makes the rich suffer
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Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
Really existing; existent.
* Webster (1623)
Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
(medicine) Idiopathic.
As nouns the difference between standard and essential
is that standard is while essential is a necessary ingredient.As an adjective essential is
necessary.standard
English
Noun
(en noun)- the court, which used to be the standard of property and correctness of speech
- A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
- By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.
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.’}}
- His armies, in the following day, / On those fair plains their standards proud display.
- In France part of their gardens is laid out for flowers, others for fruits; some standards , some against walls.
- (Greene)
Adjective
(en adjective)- standard''' works in history; '''standard authors
Antonyms
* nonstandardDerived terms
* bog standard * gold standard * double standard * standard-bearer * standard fare * standard gauge * standard lamp * standard language * Standard Model * standard of living * standard poodle * standard time * standard transmission * standard deviation * time standardessential
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]}}
- Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
- Is it true, that thou art but a name, / And no essential thing?