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yardstick [ˈjɑ:dstɪk, Am ˈjɑ:rd-] N

yardstick

мери́ло nt

yardstick fig

крите́рий m

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This remained her yardstick in her subsequent biographical writings. en.wikipedia.org

We use the magazine as a yardstick for our books... en.wikipedia.org

These short waves (high frequency waves) are too short a yardstick to measure the extent of the event. en.wikipedia.org

This often meant that students were commonly chastised with the birch, cane, paddle, strap or yardstick if they did something wrong. en.wikipedia.org

These collective yardsticks are determined by the norms previously discussed. en.wikipedia.org

The highway was considered a yardstick by which limited-access highway construction would be measured. en.wikipedia.org

Students should be tested against a fixed yardstick, rather than against each other or sorted into a mathematical bell curve. en.wikipedia.org

We thus have no yardstick to measure our difference and define ourselves. en.wikipedia.org

And in applying the mass-production yardstick to both the mechanics and creative side of film-making, the latter became molded into a pattern. en.wikipedia.org

All definitions of identity, national, social, ethnic or personal, use a comparative yardstick, be it explicit or implicit. en.wikipedia.org

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