Meaning

2 senses
  1. A measuring rod thirty-six inches (one yard) long.

  2. (figuratively)A standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged.

    Maßstab

    арши́нaršín, ме́ркаmérka, мери́лоmerílo

More definitions
  • a ruler or tape that is three feet long
  • a measure or standard used for comparison

Examples

5 sentences
  1. The teacher picked up the yardstick and measured.

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  2. A yardstick is 36 inches long.

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  3. As yardsticks to measure the effectiveness of information retrieval there exist those called 'recall ratio' and 'precision ratio'.

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  4. The simplicity, reliability, and effectiveness of their design would make it the yardstick against which all future firearms would be judged.

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  5. Mr. Jackson picked up a yardstick and measured.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged:

Origin

From yard + stick.

From yard + stick.

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Forms

plural: yardsticks
Singularyardstick
Pluralyardsticks

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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