STANDARD Synonyms

• belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public

• having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual

• a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

• common to or shared by two or more parties

• commonly encountered

• being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

• of or associated with the great masses of people

• of low or inferior quality or value

• lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

• to be expected; standard

• following accepted customs and proprieties

• (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy

• unimaginative and conformist

• conforming with accepted standards

• represented in simplified or symbolic form

• in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past

• rigidly formal or bound by convention

• in accordance with convention or custom

• commonly used or practiced; usual

• brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established

• settled securely and unconditionally

• conforming with accepted standards

• shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt

• introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation

• considered likely or probable to happen or arrive

• well known or easily recognized

• within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange

• a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support

• a friend who is frequently in the company of another

• a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard

• (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly

• having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship

• conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal

• in accordance with scientific laws

• being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development

• something regarded as a normative example

• forming a right angle

• not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree

• a judge of a probate court

• the expected or commonplace condition or situation

• a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death

• an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel

• (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields

• lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered

• most frequent or common

• in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle

• (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces

• (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula

• not constipated

• a regular patron

• a soldier in the regular army

• a dependable follower (especially in party politics)

• a garment size for persons of average height and weight

• often used as intensifiers

• conforming to a standard or pattern

• regularly scheduled for fixed times

• in accord with regular practice or procedure

• occurring at fixed intervals

• relating to a person who does something regularly

• symmetrically arranged

• not deviating from what is normal

• officially full-time

• an unvarying or habitual method or procedure

• a short performance that is part of a longer program

• a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

• found in the ordinary course of events

• consisting of or derived from tradition

• pertaining to time-honored orthodox doctrines

• exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category

• of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing

• conforming to a type

• occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure

• commonly encountered

• a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated

• the ideal in terms of which something can be judged

• long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising

• a newspaper headline that runs across the full page

• any distinctive flag

• unusually good; outstanding

• any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal

• how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify

• a statute in draft before it becomes law

• the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule

• a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated

• (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

• musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats

• measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements

• a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance

• determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of

• express as a number or measure or quantity

• have certain dimensions

• evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

• conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers

• widely accepted as true or worthy

• the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)

• the merchandise that a shop has on hand

• the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun

• a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation

• a supply of something available for future use

• the hereditary derivation of an individual

• a special variety of domesticated animals within a species

• liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces

• the reputation and popularity a person has

• persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant

• a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants

• any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers

• any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia

• lumber used in the construction of something

• the handle end of some implements or tools

• an ornamental white cravat

• any animals kept for use or profit

• repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

• routine

• regularly and widely used or sold

• have on hand

• equip with a stock

• supply with fish

• supply with livestock

• amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use

• provide or furnish with a stock of something

• put forth and grow sprouts or shoots