Uniform vs Just - What's the difference?
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Unvarying; all the same.
Consistent; conforming to one standard.
* Hooker
(mathematics) with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence
A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Phonetic equivalent for the letter U in the ICAO spelling alphabet, informally known as the NATO phonetic alphabet.
A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
* 1996 , S. J. Rozan, Concourse , Macmillan, ISBN 0-312-95944-3, page 265,
* 2001 , Christine Wiltz, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld , Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-81012-3, page 113,
* 2004 , , Penny Dreadful , MacAdam/Cage Publishing, ISBN 1-931561-81-8, page 81,
To clothe in a uniform.
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Robert W. Chambers, title=Ailsa Paige, chapter=, edition=
, passage=You can't erect an army by uniforming and drilling a few hundred thousand clerks and farmers. }}
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Factually ; right, correct; proper.
Morally ; upright; righteous, equitable.
* Shakespeare
Only, simply, merely.
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, title= (sentence adverb) (Used to reduce the force of an imperative); simply.
(speech act) (Used to convey a less serious or formal tone)
(speech act) (Used to show humility).
(degree) absolutely, positively
Moments ago, recently.
* , chapter=8
, title= By a narrow margin; closely; nearly.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=14 Exactly, perfectly.
Precisely.
* (John Dryden)
* Sir Philip Sidney
* (William Shakespeare)
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Uniform is a related term of just.
As a symbol uniform
is the letter u in the icao spelling alphabet.As a proper noun just is
, cognate to english justus.uniform
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The only doubt is how far churches are bound to be uniform in their ceremonies.
Derived terms
* uniformity * uniformlyNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- There are many things which a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform .
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.
- Skeletor held the gun against Speedo’s head, held Speedo between himself and the cops who stood, motionless and futile, where they’d stopped. Robinson, Lindfors, Carter, three uniforms and I watched helpless as Skeletor, dragging Speedy with him, inched out the gate, started backing down the hill.
- Four men flew out of it, three uniforms and one in what appeared to be an English riding outfit—boots, whip, the whole nine yards. He called out, “I’m the superintendent of police.”
- Eyes to the front now and there was the body, a lump of black and brown. Moon counted three uniforms and a photographer, the medical examiner and his assistant.
Verb
(en verb)citation
just
English
(wikipedia just)Etymology 1
From (etyl) juste, from (etyl) juste, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch & Scottish juist, French juste etc.Adjective
- It is a just assessment of the facts.
- It looks like a just solution at first glance.
- We know your grace to be a man / Just and upright.
Synonyms
* fair * upright * righteous * equitableAntonyms
* unjustDerived terms
* justly * justnessAdverb
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The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
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- And having just enough, not covet more.
- The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast.
- To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
