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Definition: Double Standard |
Double StandardNoun1. An ethical or moral code that applies more strictly to one group than to another. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Building & Civil Engineering | Rectangular brick with the same length and thickness as a standard square but of twice the width. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Screenplays | We have a double standard to live up to. (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Double Standard (1917) Double Standard (1988) | |
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Business | Customers of this service need to purchase a Telit or Ericsson double standard satellite-cellular phone that works as a satellite or cellular GSM handset depending on what connection (satellite/cellular) is available or preferable at the moment. (references) | |
Minorities | Croatia | NGO's assisting ethnic Serbs with documentation issues continued to report that local officials applied this legal double standard. (references) |
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Expression using "double standard": double standard of sexual behavior. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
double standard | 33 |
double standard woman | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "double standard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الإزدواجية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | double normale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Doppelwährung (bimetallism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kettõs elvárás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 複本位 , 二本建て (dual system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふくほ"い, にほ" て (double feature, dual system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oubleday andardstay padrão duplo. (various references) двойная мораль. (various references) dvostruko merilo. (various references) dubbelmoral. (various references) çifte standart. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-d-d-e-l-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: balustraded, bladdernuts, roundtables. | |
-4 letters: balustrade, bladdernut, outlanders, roundtable. | |
-5 letters: absoluter, adsorbate, adsorbent, adulators, aeronauts, astounded, astraddle, astrolabe, auslander, banderols, breadnuts, deadbolts, eastbound, laudators, outlander, outlearns, roadstead, roundlets, saturable, soundable, straddled, subaltern, teaboards, transuded, unabraded, undersold, unloaders, unsaddled, unstabler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 75 62 6C 65 53 74 61 6E 64 61 72 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01110101 01100010 01101100 01100101 00100000 01010011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100001 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o u b l e   S t a n d a r d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0075 0062 006C 0065 0053 0074 0061 006E 0064 0061 0072 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38818768787125386678070678470 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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