Standard in a sentence as a noun

Bootstrap gives us a sane, standard look and feel for the web, which is a good thing.

You're going to have a hard time selling a standard that makes everybody buy lenses again.

Hachette won't agree to standard retail non-agency pricing.

Notability is an extremely vague standard, a perfect recipe for abuse and selective enforcement.

They'd have to negotiate and sign compliance agreements with a raft of DRM providers just to be fully standards-compliant and interoperable.

Go look at Turbo Pascal if you want to know how to make the build/debug/run cycle fast.- Claiming that C is callable from anywhere via its standard ABI equates all the world with Unix.

Standard in a sentence as an adjective

I was at an Mac/iOS conference recently where the Core Data iCloud talk morphed from a standard talk into a "here's the mic, anybody have any idea what's going on with this thing" affair.

Since NHK demonstrated 4K TV a couple years ago, everybody in the consumer electronics world has understood 4K to mean 4x 1080p, arranged 2x2, and that is what ITU standardized in recommendation 2020.

The design community generally doesn't like the idea of standards because they are a creative community, and there is no more damning phrase in the creative communities of the modern era than "unoriginal".

"Here Mr. Khan stands exposed as possessing a historical perspective steeped in academias standard issue, postmodern, left-leaning narrative of cultural relativism, multiculturalism, and moral equivalence.

All of these standards can be applied fairly strictly, and with much less vagueness than notability.- It's not like Wikipedia is short of disk space to store a few million extra text articles.- The argument that it would be too difficult to maintain lots of extra articles is also weak, because not every article needs to be regularly edited, and more articles on niche topics might actually attract more editors.- No, we won't end up with a page for every John Doe and his cat.

Standard definitions

noun

a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated; "the schools comply with federal standards"; "they set the measure for all subsequent work"

See also: criterion measure touchstone

noun

the ideal in terms of which something can be judged; "they live by the standards of their community"

See also: criterion

noun

a board measure = 1980 board feet

noun

the value behind the money in a monetary system

noun

an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support); "distance was marked by standards every mile"; "lamps supported on standards provided illumination"

noun

any distinctive flag

See also: banner

adjective

conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind; "windows of standard width"; "standard sizes"; "the standard fixtures"; "standard brands"; "standard operating procedure"

adjective

commonly used or supplied; "standard procedure"; "standard car equipment"

adjective

established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence; "a standard reference work"; "the classical argument between free trade and protectionism"

adjective

conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers; "standard English" (American); "received standard English is sometimes called the King's English" (British)

See also: received

adjective

regularly and widely used or sold; "a standard size"; "a stock item"

See also: stock