RULE as a noun
Noun
rule (countable and uncountable, plural rules)
- A regulation, law, guideline. synonym ▲quotations ▼Synonyms: see Thesaurus:rule
All participants must adhere to the rules.
- A regulating principle. quotations ▼
- The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control. quotations ▼
- A normal condition or state of affairs.
My rule is to rise at six o'clock.
As a rule, our senior editors are serious-minded.
- (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour. quotations ▼
- (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
- (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.a rule for extracting the cube root
- A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure. quotations ▼
- A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
- (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun rule
- 180-degree rule
- 20-80 rule
- 3-revert rule
- 4-to-1 rule
- 68-95-99.7 rule
- 80-20 rule
- 8x8 rule
- Abegg's rule
- adverse interest rule
- Allen's rule
- Ampère's rule
- area rule
- as a rule
- as-if rule
- at-rule
- away goals rule
- baseball rule
- batter rule
- Bergmann's rule
- best evidence rule
- blood rule
- board rule
- Born rule
- Born's rule
- boukólos rule
- bright-line rule
- cab-rank rule
- cardinal rule
- chain rule
- composing rule
- Cope's rule
- cosine rule
- Cramer's rule
- Cromwell's rule
- crumbling skull rule
- cube rule
- direct rule
- divide and rule
- Dühring's rule
- Eddie the Eagle rule
- eggshell rule
- Emery's rule
- empirical rule
- em rule
- en rule
- every rule has an exception
- exception that proves the rule
- exclusionary rule
- fifty-move rule
- firefighter's rule
- fireman's rule
- five-second rule
- flat tire rule
- Fleming's right-hand rule
- formation rule
- Foster's rule
- gag rule
- Gloger's rule
- golden rule
- Goldwater rule
- Gougu rule
- grandmother rule
- ground rule
- Haldane's rule
- Hebb's rule
- home rule
- home rule class
- Horner's rule
- house rule
- inference rule
- infield fly rule
- island rule
- jointing rule
- Jordan rule
- last antecedent rule
- Las Vegas rule
- lesbian rule
- Lesbian rule
- l'Hôpital's rule
- L'Hôpital's rule
- Lipinski's rule of five
- literal rule
- looks-like-a-function rule
- mailbox rule
- majority rule
- Markovnikov's rule
- Markownikoff's rule
- Meeussen's rule
- mercy rule
- Miranda rule
- M'Naghten rule
- mob rule
- Mull of Kintyre rule
- nasciturus rule
- Newton-Cotes rule
- ninety-ninety rule
- octet rule
- Oddo-Harkins rule
- off-side rule
- one-drop rule
- personal rule
- Pfizer's rule of five
- phase rule
- pie rule
- platinum rule
- plumb rule
- plurality rule
- product rule
- prophylactic rule
- prudent man rule
- Rapoport's rule
- Rent's rule
- reverse one-drop rule
- right-hand rule
- Rome rule
- rule-based
- rule-book
- rule book
- rule-bound
- rule joint
- rule nisi
- rule of action
- rule of Colel
- rule of cool
- rule of coss
- rule of engagement
- rule of five
- rule of four
- rule of law
- rule of lenity
- rule of man
- rule of reason
- rule of recognition
- rule of sevens
- rule of strict construction
- rule of succession
- rule of the road
- rule of the shorter term
- rule of thirds
- rule of three
- rule-of-thumb
- rule of thumb
- rule of two
- ruleset
- rule utilitarianism
- run the rule over
- selection rule
- self-rule
- setting rule
- silver rule
- Simpson's rule
- sine rule
- slayer rule
- slide rule
- sliding-rule
- space rule
- ten-second rule
- there is an exception to every rule
- thin skull rule
- three-revert rule
- three-second rule
- three seconds rule
- touch-move rule
- transformational rule
- trapezium rule
- trapezoidal rule
- trapezoid rule
- two-pizza rule
- two second rule
- two-second rule
- under the rule
- unspoken rule
- unwritten rule
- Vegas rule
- Wallace rule of nines
- white coat rule
- work to rule
- work-to-rule
- Zaitsev's rule
- zero one infinity rule
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