Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause to conform to a standard.
- transitive verb To evaluate by comparing with a standard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To conform to or compare with a standard; regulate by a standard; constitute or recognize as a standard; specifically, in chemical analysis, to determine accurately in order to use what is so determined as a standard of comparison: said of the strength of a solution, or the quantity of a certain reagent contained in a given volume of it. Also spelled
standardise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Chem.) To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb American Alternative spelling of
standardise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to conform to standard or norm
- verb evaluate by comparing with a standard
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Examples
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The Apple comparison is useful, because they successfully sold change to combat a Microsoft campaign in the late 1990s to "standardize" on their products by selling fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD).
Brian Ross: Rosetta Stone Republican - Democrats Need Their Own 'Think Different' Campaign 2010
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The whole idea of accelerating expansion and dark matter is based on data that we think we understand, but we may be trying to "standardize" something that may be wildly variable.
Merging White Dwarfs Set Off Supernovae | Universe Today 2010
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It has happened over and over again in the earth's history so why blame man now or even expect to be so intellegent to "standardize" our weather conditions.
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I have it on pretty good authority that Mr. Gates himself plans to use an iPhone when he is working for his foundation, I believe the plan is to have the foundation "standardize" on it and he will just say he is going along with the foundation's IT policy.
More backlash 2007
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University local examinations to "standardize" her pupils.
The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921 1922
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The instinct of monopoly is against novelty, the tendency of monopoly is to keep in use the old thing, made in the old way; its disposition is to "standardize" everything.
The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People Woodrow Wilson 1890
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As a further enablement, we could "standardize" a series of nuclear power plant designs, the way we did for steam locomotives a century ago, so each new power plant wouldn't be unique, requiring years of costly and exhaustive engineering studies.
The Gadgeteer 2010
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Every few years one automaker or another comes up with a plan to better "standardize" their future product schedule (make it more regular, or speed up the process, etc), and without fail, something always steps in and messed that plan on.
Autoblog 2010
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I am looking to kind of standardize what patients are looking at; what families are looking at as they say okay we need to take care of this; we want to be sterile.
Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009
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Time for the idiots to do their homework and stop resorting to emotional nonsense over their BS cultural hangups trying to "standardize" history.
altmuslim 2009
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