rules

Meaning of rules

plural noun
  1. one of a set of explicit or understood regulations or principles governing conduct or procedure within a particular area of activity.
    the rules of cricket
    those who did break the rules would be dealt with swiftly
  2. control of or dominion over an area or people.
    the revolution brought an end to British rule
  3. the normal or customary state of things.
    such accidents are the exception rather than the rule
  4. a strip of wood or other rigid material used for measuring length or marking straight lines; a ruler.
  5. short for Australian Rules.
verb, 3rd person present
  1. exercise ultimate power or authority over (an area and its people).
    the region today is ruled by elected politicians
    the period in which Spain ruled over Portugal
  2. pronounce authoritatively and legally to be the case.
    an industrial tribunal ruled that he was unfairly dismissed from his job
  3. make parallel lines across (paper).
    rule the pages horizontally and print the information within the rules.
  4. (of a price or a traded commodity with regard to its price) have a specified general level or strength.
    in the jutes section Indus and Pak Jute ruled firm

Middle English: from Old French reule (noun), reuler (verb), from late Latin regulare, from Latin regula ‘straight stick’.

Information about rules

  • The singular form of rules is: rule.
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Hyphenation of rules

rules

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • rules is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

rules synonyms

Meaning a rule or directive made and maintained by an authority:

regulation

Meaning an authoritative decision or pronouncement, especially one made by a judge:

ruling

Meaning an official or authoritative instruction:

directive

Meaning an authoritative command or instruction:

order

Meaning a written law passed by Parliament, Congress, etc:

act

Meaning the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties:

law

Meaning a written law passed by a legislative body:

statute

Meaning an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority:

edict

Meaning a general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged:

canon

Meaning an authoritative order:

ordinance

Meaning a formal or authoritative announcement or declaration:

pronouncement

Meaning an official order or commission to do something:

mandate

Meaning authority, especially over armed forces:

command

Meaning an order or principle that must be obeyed:

dictate

Meaning a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source:

dictum

Meaning an official order that has the force of law:

decree

Meaning a formal authorization or proposition; a decree:

fiat

Meaning a public or official announcement dealing with a matter of great importance:

proclamation

Meaning an authoritative warning or order:

injunction

Meaning a divine rule, especially one of the Ten Commandments:

commandment

Meaning an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment:

prescription

Meaning a condition or requirement that is specified or demanded as part of an agreement:

stipulation

Meaning a thing that is needed or wanted:

requirement

Meaning a general rule intended to regulate behaviour or thought:

precept

Meaning a general rule, principle, or piece of advice:

guideline

Meaning a course along which someone or something moves:

direction

Meaning (in tsarist Russia) a decree with the force of law:

ukase

Meaning (especially in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries) a political manifesto or proclamation:

pronunciamento

Meaning the power to influence or direct people's behaviour or the course of events:

control

Meaning the official power to make legal decisions and judgements:

jurisdiction

Meaning political or social authority or control, especially that exercised by a government:

power

Meaning rule; control:

sway

Meaning sovereignty or control:

dominion

Meaning the group of people with the authority to govern a country or state; a particular ministry in office:

government

Meaning the management of public affairs; government:

administration

Meaning supreme power or authority:

sovereignty

Meaning the state or position of being a leader:

leadership

Meaning occupation of a position of dominant power or influence:

ascendancy

Meaning the state or condition of being superior to all others in authority, power, or status:

supremacy

Meaning the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience:

authority

Meaning control or superiority over someone or something:

mastery

Meaning leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others:

hegemony

Meaning a government, especially an authoritarian one:

regime

Meaning the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself:

influence

Meaning British sovereignty in India:

raj

Meaning a permanent unit of an army typically commanded by a lieutenant colonel and divided into several companies, squadrons, or batteries and often into two battalions:

regiment

Meaning an established or official way of doing something:

procedure

Meaning the customary, habitual, or expected procedure or way of doing of something:

practice

Meaning the official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic occasions:

protocol

Meaning behaviour that is considered acceptable or polite to most members of a society:

convention

Meaning a required or agreed level of quality or attainment:

standard

Meaning a standard or pattern, especially of social behaviour, that is typical or expected:

norm

Meaning the customary or correct method or procedure:

form

Meaning a sequence of actions regularly followed:

routine

Meaning a thing that one does habitually:

custom

Meaning a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up:

habit

Meaning one's customary behaviour:

wont

Meaning practice, as distinguished from theory:

praxis

Meaning conduct the policy, actions, and affairs of (a state, organization, or people) with authority:

govern

Meaning be in charge or command of:

lead

Meaning have power and influence over:

dominate

Meaning move at a speed faster than a walk, never having both or all the feet on the ground at the same time:

run

Meaning be in charge of:

head

Meaning control the operations of; manage or govern:

direct

Meaning manage and be responsible for the running of (a business, organization, etc.):

administer

Meaning be in charge of (a business, organization, or undertaking); run:

manage

Meaning control (something, especially a business activity) by means of rules and regulations:

regulate

Meaning hold royal office; rule as monarch:

reign

Meaning declare or announce in a formal or solemn way:

pronounce

Meaning give a verdict on (someone) in a law court:

judge

Meaning consider or declare to be true or the case:

adjudge

Meaning make a formal judgement on a disputed matter:

adjudicate

Meaning order (something) officially:

ordain

Meaning come or bring to a resolution in the mind as a result of consideration:

decide

Meaning (of a court) officially declare to be the case:

find

Meaning cause (something) to occur in a particular way or to have a particular nature:

determine

Meaning (of a legislative body or other formal meeting) make a decision by a formal vote:

resolve

Meaning resolve or reach an agreement about (an argument or problem):

settle

Meaning set up on a firm or permanent basis:

establish

Meaning have (a belief or opinion):

hold

Meaning declare or state solemnly or emphatically:

asseverate

Anagrams of rules

lures, luser, Rusel, sluer, Ursel

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