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Rule, ruler, or ruling usually refers to standards for activities.

Rule, ruler, or ruling may refer to:

Guides for human activity

• Rule of thumb, a principle with broad application that is not intended to be strictly accurate or reliable for every situation
• Moral, a rule or element of a moral code for guiding choices in human behavior
• Norm (sociology), an informal but widely accepted rule, concept, truth, definition, or qualification (social norms, legal norms, coding norms)
• Norm (philosophy), a kind of sentence or a reason to act, feel or believe
• Regulation of sport, rules for a sport

Law and government

• Ruler, see monarch, the person who rules a country
• Procedural law, a ruleset governing the application of laws to cases
  • A law, which may informally be called a "rule"
  • A court ruling, a decision by a court
• In the Federal government of the United States, a regulation mandated by Congress, but written or expanded upon by the Executive Branch
• Governance:
  • Military rule, governance by a military body
  • Monastic rule, a collection of precepts that guides the life of monks or nuns in a religious order where the superior holds the place of Christ

Science and technology

• Technical rules, see standardization, the process of developing and agreeing upon technical standards
• Ruler, a straight edge instrument that may also be used to measure distances
• Rule, a component of an astrolabe, circumferator or similar instrument
• Slide rule, an obsolete instrument for calculation
• Mathematics and logic
  • Golomb ruler, an imaginary ruler with no two marks the same distance
  • Perfect ruler, an imaginary ruler with marks defined by differences
  • Operator, a determinate rule (method) for performing a mathematical operation and obtaining a certain result
    • Unary operation
    • Binary operation
  • Rule of inference, a function from sets of formulae to formulae

Computers

• Rewrite rule, rules for replacing one item by another
• Production rule, a set of rules about behavior or forming something
• Heuristic, a quantized "rule" which shows a tendency or probability for producing a desired function
• RULE Project (Run Up-to-date Linux Everywhere), a project that aims to use up-to-date Linux software on old PCs
• Rule engine, a software system that helps managing business rules

Television, film, music, and books

• "Rule/Sparkle," a song by Ayumi Hamasaki
• "Rule (song)," a song by rapper Nas
• "Rules (album)," an album by the band The Whitest Boy Alive
• Rules: Pyaar Ka Superhit Formula, a 2003 Bollywood film
• The Rules, a bestselling self-help book
• Ja Rule, a hip hop artist
  • R.U.L.E., a 2005 greatest hits album by rapper Ja Rule
• "Rules (song)," a KMFDM song

Other uses

• Rulering (punishment), a form of a corporal punishment

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Etymology

• (noun) < Middle English rule < Old French riule < Vulgar Latin regula (“‘straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern’”) < regere (“‘to keep straight, direct, govern, rule’”); see regent.
• (verb) < Middle English rulen < Old French riuler < Latin regulare (“‘to regulate, rule’”) < regula (“‘a rule’”).

Pronunciation

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  Rhymes: -uːl

Noun

rule (plural rules)

1. A regulation, law, guideline.
2. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
3. Something to keep order.

Derived terms

Related terms

• regulate
• regent
• regular

Translations

Verb

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

1. To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
2. (slang, intransitive) To excel.

   This game rules!

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Derived terms

External links

• rule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• rule in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• Anagrams of elru
• lure