Meaning

9 senses
  1. A heading in a book highlighted in red.

    Rubrik

    ру́брикаrúbrika, кра́сная строка́krásnaja stroká

    a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type

  2. A title of a category or a class.

    That would fall under the rubric of things we can ignore for now.

    Rubrik

    ру́брикаrúbrika, катего́рияkategórija

    category name

  3. The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.

    directions for the conduct of Christian church services (often printed in red in a prayer book)

  4. An established rule or custom; a guideline.

    Whilst this rubric is not written into law, it should always be followed.

    1847-1848, Thomas De Quincey, "Protestantism", in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity.

  5. A statement of intent.

    The Government's rubric of "caring for communities" is ridiculous.

  6. A set of explanatory notes or rules at the beginning of an exam paper, usually typographically distinct from the rest of the paper.

    Do not award marks to candidates who have made rubric errors.

  7. A set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.

    We refer to the rubric when marking oral examinations.

    Benotungsschema

  8. A flourish after a signature.

  9. Red ochre.

Examples

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  1. Was there an assessment rubric?

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  2. It depends on your rubric for judging quality.

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  3. The teacher handed a rubric for the assignment to the students.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
heading in a book highlighted in red:
category or classification:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
heading in a book highlighted in red:
printed set of scoring criteria:

Origin

From Middle English rubriche, rubrike, from Old French rubrique, from Latin rūbrīca (“red

From Middle English rubriche, rubrike, from Old French rubrique, from Latin rūbrīca (“red ochre”), the substance used to make red letters, from ruber (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.

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Forms

plural: rubrics
Singularrubric
Pluralrubrics

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
flourish after signature:paraph
Close in meaning
  • an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text:gloss
  • a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with:titlestatute title

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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