Noun

(en noun)

A principle or example or measure used for comparison.

# A level of quality or attainment.

#*

, 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)

Noun

(en noun)

(psychoanalysis) The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt.

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Still, it would be an error to believe that psychoanalytic
theory makes no contribution to describing and assessing
different types of ethical conduct. The crucial notion in this
connection is the relative rigidity or flexibility of the superego'.
The childish, immature, or neurotic '''superego''' is rigid; it is
characterized by slavish adherence to rules which, moreover,
may not be clearly understood. The mature or normal '''super-
ego''', on the other hand, is flexible; it can evaluate the situation
at hand and modify the rules accordingly. Thus, in an early,
classic paper, Strachey suggested that the basic aim of psycho-
analytic treatment is to make such "mutative interpretations"
as would help to render the patient's "rigid '''superego'''" more
"flexible".⁸ Like the psychoanalytic theory of the ' superego , on
which it is based, this view suffers from the limitation of being
silent on what sort of rigidity is considered bad or undesirable
and what sort of flexibility is considered good or desirable. In
short, Freud and other psychoanalysts have persistently
dallied with normative systems without ever committing them-
selves on normative standards.