rule
A regulation, law, guidelineA regulation, law, guideline.
» I explained the rule to him.
Я объяснил ему правило.
Я пояснив йому правило.
Meaning
11 senses(countable, uncountable)A regulation, law, guideline.
All participants must adhere to the rules.
You have to follow the rules to enter the qualifiers for the football tournament.
Regel, Vorschrift
пра́вилоprávilo
пра́вилоprávylo
(countable, uncountable)A regulating principle.
a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
(uncountable)The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
Herrschaft
правле́ниеpravlénije, госпо́дствоgospódstvo
правлі́нняpravlínnja, панува́нняpanuvánnja, царюва́нняcarjuvánnja
(countable, uncountable)A normal condition or state of affairs.
My rule is to rise at six o'clock.
As a rule, our senior editors are serious-minded.
Regel
(countable, uncountable)An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
(countable, uncountable)A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
a rule for extracting the cube root
(countable, uncountable)A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
(countable, uncountable)A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
(countable, dated, uncountable)A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Conduct; behaviour.
prescribed guide for conduct or action
(obsolete)Revelry.
Examples
2004 sentencesI explained the rule to him.
Я пояснив йому правило.
ruЯ объяснил ему правило.
He explained the rules in detail.
Він детально пояснив правила.
ruОн подробно объяснил правила.
deEr erklärte die Regeln im Einzelnen.
He explained the rule to me.
Він пояснив мені правило.
deEr erklärte mir die Regel.
Tom has to follow our rules.
Том має слідувати нашим правилам.
ruТом должен следовать нашим правилам.
deTom muss sich an unsere Regeln halten.
The rules are about to change.
Правила скоро зміняться.
ruПравила вот-вот изменятся.
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 2
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Origin
From Middle English reule, rewle, rule, borrowed from Old French riule, reule, from LatinFrom Middle English reule, rewle, rule, borrowed from Old French riule, reule, from Latin regula (“straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-; see regent. Doublet of rail, regal, regula, and rigol.
Related to revel.
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Forms
plural: rulesSynonyms
12 synonyms- measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths:ruler
- a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior:regulation
- (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems:formula
- prescribed guide for conduct or action:prescript
- (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice:linguistic rule
- a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system:principle
Word family
190 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- obey the rules
- explained the rules
- follow the rules
- know the rules
- broken any rules
- rule out the
- a rule to
- can't rule out
- against the rules
- the rules are
- all the rules
- change the rules