Definitions for Rules

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Rules rule

Spelling: [rool]

IPA: /rul/

Rules is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in Rules (elrsu).

Definitions for Rules

noun

1. a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.:
2. the code of regulations observed by a religious order or congregation:
3. the customary or normal circumstance, occurrence, manner, practice, quality, etc.:
4. control, government, or dominion:
5. tenure or conduct of reign or office:
6. a prescribed mathematical method for performing a calculation or solving a problem.
7. ruler (def 2).
8. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Norma.
9. Printing. a thin, type-high strip of metal, for printing a solid or decorative line or lines.
10. Law. a formal order or direction made by a court, as for governing the procedure of the court (general rule) or for sending the case before a referee (special rule) a legal principle. a court order in a particular case.
11. rules, Penology. a fixed area in the neighborhood of certain prisons within which certain prisoners were allowed to live. the freedom of such an area.
12. Obsolete. behavior.

Idioms

1. as a rule, generally; usually:
2. rule the roost. roost (def 7).

Verb phrases

1. rule out, to prove to be unrelated or not for consideration; eliminate; exclude: to make impossible or impracticable:

verb (used with object)

1. to control or direct; exercise dominating power, authority, or influence over; govern:
2. to decide or declare judicially or authoritatively; decree:
3. to mark with lines, especially parallel straight lines, with the aid of a ruler or the like:
4. to mark out or form (a line) by this method:
5. to be superior or preeminent in (a specific field or group); dominate by superiority; hold sway over:

verb (used without object)

1. to exercise dominating power or influence; predominate.
2. to exercise authority, dominion, or sovereignty.
3. to make a formal decision or ruling, as on a point at law.
4. to be prevalent or current:

Origin of Rules

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English riule, reule Old French riule Latin rēgula straight stick, pattern (see regula); (v.) Middle English riwlen, reulen, rewellen Old F

Examples for Rules

We are not obliged to conform to any particular set of rules.

Rule 16(c) was a proposed change in the rules at the 1976 Republican Convention.

We have reached a tipping point in the culture where Americans are now trained to look to the rules instead of their own judgment.

By these rules of conduct, we hope to be known to all peoples.

The book of rules stated explicitly that such things were forbidden.

The only way to learn the rules of any thing practical is to begin to do the thing.

But millions of rules result in perpetual error, and, as a terminal side effect, make leadership and accomplishment illegal.

But to desert a woman, and have her apparently not even know it, was against the rules of the game.

But they refused to cross the street to help because, they told bystanders, the rules required them instead to call 911.

The rules change would have required all candidates to do the same.