rule /rool/

1. A straight-edged strip used as a guide in drawing straight lines or as a measuring-rod, or means of mechanical calculation
2. A type-high strip of metal for printing straight lines
3. A straight line printed or drawn on paper, etc
4. A dash
5. A straight-edge used for securing a flat surface in plaster or cement
6. A straight shaft of light (Milton)
7. Government
8. Control
9. Prevalence
10. That which is normal or usual
11. Conformity to good or established usage
12. Well-regulated condition
13. Conduct (obsolete)
14. Misrule (obsolete)
15. A principle
16. A standard
17. A code of regulations, such as of a religious order
18. A regulation, whether imposed by authority or voluntarily adopted
19. An order of a court
20. A guiding principle
21. A method or process of achieving a result
22. A regulation that must not be transgressed
23. A maxim or formula that it is generally best, but not compulsory, to follow
24. (in pl) an area around a prison in which privileged prisoners were allowed to live (historical)
25. The privilege of living there (historical)
26. (in pl) Australian rules football (see under Australian)

1. To draw with a ruler
2. To mark with (esp parallel) straight lines
3. To govern
4. To control
5. To manage
6. To prevail upon
7. To determine or declare authoritatively to be
8. To determine, decree

1. To exercise power (with over)
2. To decide
3. To be prevalent
4. To stand or range in price

ruˈlable adjective

1. Governable
2. Allowable (US)

ruleˈless (Spenser ruˈlesse) adjective

1. Unruly, lawless
2. Without rules

ruˈler noun

1. A strip or roller for ruling lines
2. A person who rules

To strike with a ruler

ruˈlership noun

ruˈling adjective

1. Predominant
2. Prevailing
3. Reigning
4. Exercising authority

1. A determination by a judge, esp an oral decision
2. The act of making ruled lines

ruˈly adjective

Orderly in behaviour

Rule 43 noun

1. A UK prison rule allowing a prisoner who is thought to need protection from other prisoners to be held in solitary confinement
2. A prisoner held under this rule

rule-of-thumbˈ adjective

According to rule of thumb (see below)

as a rule

Usually

be ruled

Take advice

rule of faith

In polemical theology, the authoritative sources of the doctrines of the faith

rule of the road

The regulations to be observed in traffic by land, water or air (eg in Britain drivers, riders and cyclists take the left side in meeting, and the right in overtaking)

rule of three

The method of finding the fourth term of a proportion when three are given

rule of thumb

Any rough-and-ready practical method

rule (or rules) OK (slang; orig a gang slogan, chiefly found in graffiti)

To be dominant, have the ascendancy

rule out

To exclude as a choice or possibility

rule the roost see under roast

Australian /ö- or o-strāˈli-ən/

Of, or relating to, Australia, the largest island in the world and the smallest continent, an independent member of the Commonwealth (formerly a British colony)

A person native to or resident in Australia

Austrāˈlianism noun

1. An Australian idiom
2. A characteristically Australian attitude

ausˈtralite noun

A tektite found in the interior of Australia

Ausˈtraloid adjective

Of or relating to an ethnic group that includes the Australian Aborigines and certain other S Asian peoples

A member of this group

Ausˈtralorp noun

An Australian breed of black hen (Australian and Orpington)

Australia Day noun

(a public holiday celebrating) the anniversary of the founding of the colony of New South Wales on 26 January 1788

Australian crane see brolga

Australian rules football or Australian rules noun

An Australian version of football played by eighteen a side with an oval ball (also Aust inf Rules)

Australian salmon noun

The kahawai

Australian terrier noun

A small wire-haired terrier similar to the cairn terrier

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