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Definition: Standardize |
StandardizeVerb1. Cause to conform to standard or norm; "The weights and measures were standardized". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | = normalize. (references) |
Health | To compare with or conform to a standard; to establish standards. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: StandardizeSynonym: standardise (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: standardise (meteorology & standards). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Measurement | Verb: measure, mete; determine, assay; evaluate, value, assess, rate, appraise, estimate, form an estimate, set a value on; appreciate; standardize. |
Normality | Verb: normalize, standardize. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Standardize |
| Specialty definitions using "standardize": BRAKE-LINING FINISHER, ASBESTOS ♦ dietary assistant, director of consumer services, DIRECTOR, RECORDS MANAGEMENT ♦ FILTER OPERATOR ♦ impregnator operator ♦ KITCHEN SUPERVISOR ♦ manager, kitchen ♦ nutrition consultant ♦ TESTER, FOOD PRODUCTS ♦ WRITER, TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | FDA has been working to standardize the biological extracts used to test and treat patients with allergies. (references) | |
Future trials should standardize drug dose and schedule, and link dose, dose intensity, and duration to some biological or biochemical end point. (references) | ||
Standardize use of terminology, particularly descriptive terms such as "visible vessel" (e.g., white, blue, red, black or bare), adherent clot, persistent and recurrent bleeding. (references) | ||
Business | MOC is also trying to standardize "design competition" procedures which heretofore have not been concretely established in Japan. (references) | |
Economic History | Central African Republic | As a result, many of the state-owned business entities have been privatized and limited efforts have been made to standardize and simplify labor and investment codes and to address problems of corruption. (references) |
Oman | The Ministry of Health has expressed particular interest in U.S. health care management information technologies, as part of its efforts to standardize operations and establish interconnectivity among Oman's 150 hospitals and regional clinics. (references) | |
Chad | As a member of CEMAC (the Central African Economic and Monetary Community) and OHADA (the Organization for the Harmonization of African Business Law) signatory, Chad is participating in regional efforts to standardize tax policies and commercial law. (references) | |
Human Rights | China | In recent years, the Ministry of Justice drafted regulations to standardize professional performance, lawyer-client relations, and the administration of lawyers and law firms. (references) |
Political Economy | CHINA | Customs procedures: In August 1998, the Customs Administration launched an ambitious program to standardize enforcement of customs regulations throughout China as part of a larger campaign to combat smuggling. (references) |
Political Rights | Mauritania | A countrywide census, taken at the end of 1998 and designed to register all citizens and standardize the current complex system of names, also was aimed in part at providing the basis for free and fair elections. (references) |
Trade | China | In August 1998, the Customs Administration launched an ambitious program to standardize enforcement of customs regulations throughout China as part of a larger campaign to combat smuggling. (references) |
Women | Argentina | The Government, through the National Council of Women, implemented a new database system, with the help of UNICEF, to standardize statistics on domestic violence, permit a more accurate evaluation of the scope of the problem, and promote better public policy. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Standardize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 88.00% of the time. "Standardize" is used about 50 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 88% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 50 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
standardize test | 3 |
standardize | 2 |
standardize testing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "standardize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | standardizoj, normalizoj (normalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قاس (austere, callous, concrete, cruel, cutthroat, drastic, firm, gauge, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, inclement, inflexible, measure, merciless, pitiless, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, ruthless, scale, severe, solid, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, tape, tough, try on, unfeeling, unkind, unyielding), وحد القياس, عاير (calibrate), إختبر بمعيار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стандартизирам, уеднаквявам (equalize, uniform, unify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 规范化 (standardise, standardised, standardized). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | standardizovat, normalizovat (normalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | standardisere (standardise, to standardize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | standaardiseren (standardise, to standardize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مطابق درجه معینی دراوردن , مرسوم کردن (Introduce), بامعیارمعینی سنجیدن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | standardoida (standardise, to standardize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | standardiser (standardise, to standardize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | standardisieren (standardise, to standardize), vereinheitlichen (unify, unitize), normiere, normen (norms, standards). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάνω κανονικό (normalize, regularize), κάνω ομοιόμορφον, σταθεροποιώ (consolidate, make stable, stabilize, steady), τυποποιώ (conventionalize, standardise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לתק ן. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szabványosít (normalize, to normalize, to specify), hitelesít (authenticate, calibrate, certify, corroborate, legalise, legalize, to attest, to authenticate, to calibrate, to certify, to check, to corroborate, to notarize, to seal, to test, to true, to true up, verify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | standardizzare (standardise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 표준"하십시" (standardise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bun-towshanaghey (standardization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | andardizestay estandardizar. (various references) standardiza (gauge, normalize), uniformiza (gauge, level), norma (control, normalize), lua cã etalon, etalona. (various references) стандартизировать. (various references) standardizovati, normirati. (various references) normalizar (normalize, regularize), estandarizar (standardise, to standardize). (various references) standardisera. (various references) standartlaştırmak (normalize, uniform), titre etmek (titrate), tek tip yapmak, ayarlamak (adjust, arrange, assay, budget, calibrate, collimate, draw up, fix up, gear, justify, lay on, measure, proportion, regularize, regulate, reset, scale, set, Square, syntonize, time, tone, trim, tune). (various references) kadalaюdyrmak. (various references) стандартизувати (normalize), нормалізувати (normalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "standardize": standardized, standardizes. (additional references) | |
Words containing "standardize": unstandardized. (additional references) | |
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"Standardize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: standardise, standardizer, standarize. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "standardize" (pronounced sta"nderdī'z) |
| 4 | -er d ī' z | jeopardize. |
| 3 | -d ī' z | aggrandize, hybridize, merchandise, oxidize, propagandize, rhapsodize, subsidize. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-i-n-r-s-t-z" | |
-1 letter: andradites. | |
-2 letters: andradite, atrazines. | |
-3 letters: airdates, antisera, araneids, atrazine, dandiest, darndest, dataries, detrains, disrated, radiants, radiated, radiates, randiest, ratanies, seatrain, standard, stanzaed, strained, stranded, stridden, tzarinas, zenaidas. | |
-4 letters: addrest, airdate, anestri, ansated, antiars, antired, antsier, araneid, aridest, aristae, artisan, asteria, astride, atresia, dadaist, danders, dandier, dandies, dastard, destain, detains, detrain, diaster, disrate, distend, drained. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-e-i-n-r-s-t-z" | |
+1 letter: standardized, standardizes. | |
+3 letters: unstandardized. | |
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