rule

Meanings

Noun

• A regulation, law, guideline.
• A regulating principle.
• The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
• A normal condition or state of affairs.
• Conduct; behaviour.
• An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
• A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
• A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
• A straight line , especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
• 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.
• Revelry.

Verb

• To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
• To excel.
• To decide judicially.
• To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
• To mark (paper or the like) with rules .
• To revel.

Related

Similar words

• rock

Opposite words

• suck

Origin

• From Middle English reule, rewle, rule, borrowed from Old French riule, reule, itself an early semi-learned borrowing from Latin regula ("straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern"), from regō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti ("to straighten; right"), from the root *h₃reǵ-; see regent.
• From Middle English rulen, borrowed from Old French riuler, from Latin regulāre ("to regulate, rule"), from regula; see regular and regulate.
• Related to revel.