Rule

/ɹuːl/ · noun

Meaning

A regulation, law, guideline..

Definitions by Sense

1. A regulation, law, guideline.
2. A regulating principle.
3. (uncountable) The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
4. A normal condition or state of affairs.
5. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
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.
8. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.

Example Sentences

All participants must adhere to the rules.

You have to follow the rules to enter the qualifiers for the football tournament.

We profess to have embraced a religion which contains the most exact rules for the government of our lives.

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.

There's little can be said in 't; 'Tis against the rule of nature.

Obey them that have the rule over you.

His stern rule the groaning land obeyed.

My rule is to rise at six o'clock.

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Word Forms

• rules
• ruling
• ruled
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• rulest
• ruledst
• ruleth
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