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yardstick
barometer, benchmark, check, degree, gauge, measure, norm, pattern, reading, rule, standard, touchstone, value
Definition
n.
a measure or standard used for comparison
Last update: October 6, 2015
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IQ tests are no more used as a
yardstick
to measure students'intelligence.
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He will then find he has a
yardstick
against which to measure the worth of all other literature on the same subject.
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His success has become the unofficial
yardstick
for any overseas executive put in charge of a local firm in trouble.
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A dwarf can always measure a giant: all that he needs is a
yardstick
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He therefore had neither time nor inclination to measure everyone's morality with a Puritanic
yardstick
.
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Then he jumped around frantically, waving his
yardstick
-shepherd's crook, and shouted to the villagers, "Wolf."
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I thought I was taller, but I suppose I will have to believe my own
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.
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Next time I'll have 'em made to measure with a ten-foot pole instead of a
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.
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"You don't measure theological discussions by the
yardstick
, young man."
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I assure you, I am worse misfitted than is Master Yardstick yonder in those Falstaffian hose.
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George came in, with a
yardstick
tied around his waist for a sword, and made a deep bow which made the spinet giggle violently.
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