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Standardize

Definition: Standardize

Standardize

Verb

1. 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.
 


Specialty Definition: Standardize

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonym: Standardize

Synonym: standardise (v). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: standardise (meteorology & standards).

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Synonyms within Context: Standardize

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Standardize

Specialty definitions using "standardize": BRAKE-LINING FINISHER, ASBESTOSdietary assistant, director of consumer services, DIRECTOR, RECORDS MANAGEMENTFILTER OPERATORimpregnator operatorKITCHEN SUPERVISORmanager, kitchennutrition consultantTESTER, FOOD PRODUCTSWRITER, TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Standardize

DomainTitle

Books

  • An Introduction to the Modern Middle East (Dantes Subject Standardize Tests (Dantes)) (reference)

  • Barron's 601 Words You Need to Know for the SAT, PSAT, GRE, State Regents, and Other Standardize (reference)

  • Primary Reference Preparations Used to Standardize Calibration of Immunochemical Assays for Serum Pr: Approved Guideline (reference)

  • Testwise 1: Strategies for Success on Standardize Tests (Troll Teacher Idea Books) (reference)

  • Workshop to Standardize Studies on Ceramics of East and Southeast Asia (P-W2), Cebu City, Philippines, February 15-20, 1983 final report (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Standardize

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Standardize

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)88%4451,500
Lexical Verb (base form)12%6143,867
                    Total100.00%50N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Standardize

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

standardize test

3

standardize

2

standardize testing

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Standardize

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

   

Portuguese

  

estandardizar. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

standardiza (gauge, normalize), uniformiza (gauge, level), norma (control, normalize), lua cã etalon, etalona. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

стандартизировать. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

standardizovati, normirati. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

normalizar (normalize, regularize), estandarizar (standardise, to standardize). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

standardisera. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Turkmen 

  

kadalaюdyrmak. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

стандартизувати (normalize), нормалізувати (normalize). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Standardize

Derivations

Words beginning with "standardize": standardized, standardizes. (additional references)

Words containing "standardize": unstandardized. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Standardize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: standardise, standardizer, standarize. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Standardize"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "standardize" (pronounced sta"nderdī'z)
4-er d ī' zjeopardize.
3-d ī' zaggrandize, hybridize, merchandise, oxidize, propagandize, rhapsodize, subsidize.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Standardize

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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