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单词 rule
释义

rule

See also: Rule and rulé

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ɹuːl/, [ɹ̠ʷuːɫ]
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  • Rhymes: -uːl

Etymology 1

From Middle English reule, rewle, rule, borrowed from Old French riule, reule, from Latin regula (“straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-; see regent.

Noun

rule (countable and uncountable, plural rules)

  1. A regulation, law, guideline.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:rule
    All participants must adhere to the rules.
    • a. 1694, John Tillotson, Of The Obligations of Christians to a Holy Life
      We profess to have embraced a religion which contains the most exact rules for the government of our lives.
    • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
      The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
  2. A regulating principle.
    • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
      There's little can be said in 't; 'Tis against the rule of nature.
  3. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Hebrews 13:17:
      Obey them that have the rule over you.
    • 1725, Homer; [Alexander Pope], transl., “Book III”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646:
      His stern rule the groaning land obeyed.
  4. 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.
  5. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
    • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
      This uncivil rule; she shall know of it.
  6. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
  7. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
    a rule for extracting the cube root
  8. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
    • a. 1716, Robert South, Sermons
      As we may observe in the Works of Art, a Judicious Artist will indeed use his Eye, but he will trust only to his Rule.
  9. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
  10. (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
  • 8x8 rule
  • Abegg's rule
  • em rule
  • Emery's rule
  • en rule
  • exception that proves the rule
  • five-second rule
  • Fleming's right-hand rule
  • golden rule
  • looks-like-a-function rule
  • rule of action
  • rule of law
  • rule of the road
  • rule of the shorter term
  • rule of thumb
  • ruleset
  • run the rule over
  • silver rule
  • slide rule
  • ten-second rule
  • there is an exception to every rule
  • three-second rule
  • two-second rule
  • regulate
  • regent
  • regular
Collocations
Collocations
  • legal rules
  • constitutional rule
  • strict rules
  • general rules
  • specific rules
  • basic rules
  • unwritten rules
  • unspoken rules
  • rigid rules
  • stupid rules
  • silly rules
Translations
straight-edge — see ruler

Etymology 2

From Middle English reulen, rulen, borrowed from Old French riuler, from Latin regulāre (“to regulate, rule”), from regula (“a rule”); see regular and regulate.

Verb

rule (third-person singular simple present rules, present participle ruling, simple past and past participle ruled)

  1. (transitive, stative) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
      And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
  2. (slang, intransitive, stative) To excel.
    This game rules!
  3. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
    • 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:
      The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
  4. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
    • 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation; […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Sheldonian] Theater, OCLC 1227545844:
      That's a ruled case with the school-men.
  5. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
Conjugation
Conjugation of rule
infinitive(to) rule
present tensepast tense
1st-person singular rule ruled
2nd-person singular rule, rulest† ruled, ruledst†
3rd-person singular rules, ruleth† ruled
plural rule
subjunctive rule ruled
imperative rule —
participles ruling ruled

†Archaic or obsolete.

Synonyms
  • (to excel): rock (also slang)
Antonyms
  • (to excel): suck (vulgar slang)
Derived terms
Terms derived from rule (verb)
  • forerule
  • Rule Britannia
  • rule on
  • rule out
  • rule the day
  • rule the roost
  • the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
Translations

Etymology 3

Related to revel.

Noun

rule

  1. (obsolete) Revelry.

Verb

rule (third-person singular simple present rules, present participle ruling, simple past and past participle ruled)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To revel.

Further reading

  • rule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • rule in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • rule at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • rule in Britannica Dictionary
  • rule in Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary
  • rule in Ozdic collocation dictionary
  • rule in WordReference English Collocations

Anagrams

  • ReLU, Ruel, lure

Spanish

Verb

rule

  1. inflection of rular:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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