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Definition: Uniform |
UniformAdjective1. Always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences; "a street of uniform tall white buildings". 2. The same throughout in structure or composition; "bituminous coal is often treated as a consistent and homogeneous product". 3. Not differentiated. 4. Evenly spaced; "at regular (or uniform) intervals". Noun1. Clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification. Verb1. Provide with uniforms; "The guards were uniformed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "uniform" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Uniform \U"ni*form\, adjective. [Latin uniformis; unus one + forma from: compare to French uniforme.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | UNIFORM An intermediate language developed for reverse engineering both COBOL and Fortran. ["The REDO Compendium", H. van Zuylen ed, Wiley 1993]. (1994-12-06). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Dream Interpretation | To see a uniform in your dream, denotes that you will have influential friends to aid you in obtaining your desires. For a young woman to dream that she wears a uniform, foretells that she will luckily confer her favors upon a man who appreciated them, and returns love for passion. If she discards it, she will be in danger of public scandal by her notorious love for adventure. To see people arrayed in strange uniforms, foretells the disruption of friendly relations with some other Power by your own government. This may also apply to families or friends. To see a friend or relative looking sad while dressed in uniform, or as a soldier, predicts ill fortune or continued absence. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Of a forest, crop or stand constituted of trees whose crowns form an ordered, even canopy; the trees are not necessarily even-aged. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Student nurses working in a clinical setting usually wear a uniform. The uniform is worn for hygiene as well as identification purposes.The girls below wear a uniform consisting of a dress, pinafore apron and cap. There are however variations, and in some hospitals, student nurses also wear a nursing pin, or the pinafore apron may have been replaced by a cobbler style apron. A "scrub dress" is a simpler type of uniform, sometimes worn in operating rooms.
A student nurse uniformSee: candystriper
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A set of standard clothing worn by members of an organisation whilst participating in that organisation's activity.
People performing religious activities have often worn standard costumes since the dawn of recorded history. Other early examples of uniforms include the clothing of the armies of the Roman Empire and other civilizations.
Modern uniforms are worn by armed forces and other paramilitary organisations such as police, emergency services, security guards, in some workplaces and schools, and by inmates in prisons.
One purpose of military uniforms is to clearly distinguish combatants who are protected by the laws of war from other persons carrying weapons, who enjoy no such protection. Another purpose in historical times was to make it difficult for deserters to avoid detection; military uniforms were so distinctive with many metal buttons and unique colors that they could not be modified into unrecognizable clothing.
Prison uniforms often consist of a distinctive orange or yellow jumpsuit or a white and black zebra striped uniform to make escape more difficult.
See also
Uniform is also the letter U in the NATO phonetic alphabet
- School uniform
- Student uniform
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In mathematical analysis, a sequence { fn } of functions converges uniformly to a limiting function f if the speed of convergence of fn(x) to f(x) does not depend on x. This notion is used because several important properties of the functions fn, such as continuity, differentiability and Riemann integrability, are only transferred to the limit f if the convergence is uniform.
Definition and comparison with pointwise convergence
Suppose S is a set and fn : I -> R are real-valued functions for every natural number n. We say that the sequence (fn) converges uniformly with limit f : S -> R iff
Compare this to the concept of pointwise convergence: The sequence (fn) converges pointwise with limit f : S -> R iff
- for every ε > 0, there exists a natural number N, such that for all x in S and all n ≥ N: |fn(x) - f(x)| < ε
In the case of uniform convergence, N can only depend on ε, while in the case of pointwise convergence N may depend on ε and x. It is therefore plain that uniform convergence implies pointwise convergence. The converse is not true, as the following example shows: take S to be the unit interval [0,1] and define fn(x) = xn for every natural number n. Then (fn) converges pointwise to the function f defined by f(x) = 0 if x < 1 and f(1) = 1. This convergence is not uniform: for instance for ε = 1/4, there exists no N as required by the definition.
- for every x in S and every ε > 0, there exists a natural number N, such that for all n ≥ N: |fn(x) - f(x)| < ε
Topological reformulation
Given a topological space X, we can equip the space of real/complex functions over X with the uniform norm topology. Then, uniform convergence simply means convergence in the uniform norm topology.
Theorems
If S is a real interval (or indeed any topological space), we can talk about the continuity of the functions fn and f. The following is the more important result about uniform continuity:
If S is an interval and all the functions fn are differentiable and converge to a limit f, it is often desirable to differentiate the limit function f by taking the limit of the derivatives of fn. This is however in general not possible: even if the convergence is uniform, the limit function need not be differentiable, and even if it is differentiable, the derivative of the limit function need not be equal to the limit of the derivatives. Consider for instance fn(x) = 1/n sin(nx) with uniform limit 0, but the derivatives do not approach 0. The precise statement covering this situation is as follows:
- If (fn) is a sequence of continuous functions which converges uniformly towards the function f, then f is continuous as well.
Similarly, one often wants to exchange integrals and limit processes. For the Riemann integral, one needs to require uniform convergence:
- If fn converges uniformly to f, and if all the fn are differentiable, and if the derivatives f'n converge uniformly to g, then f is differentiable and its derivative is g.
Much stronger theorems in this respect, which require not much more than pointwise convergence, can be obtained if one abandons the Riemann integral and uses the Lebesgue integal instead.
- if (fn) is a sequence of Riemann integrable functions which uniformly converge with limit f, then f is Riemann integrable and its integral can be computed as the limit of the integrals of the fn.
If S is a compact interval (or in general a compact topological space), and (fn) is a monotone increasing sequence (meaning fn(x) ≤ fn+1(x) for all n and x) of continuous functions with a pointwise limit f which is also continuous, then the convergence is necessarily uniform ("Dini's theorem").
Generalizations
One may straightforwardly extend the concept to functions S -> M, where (M, d) is a metric space, by replacing |fn(x) - f(x)| with d(fn(x), f(x)).
The most general setting is the uniform convergence of netss of functions S -> X, where X is a uniform space. We say that the net (fα) converges uniformly with limit f : S -> X iff
The above mentioned theorem, stating that the uniform limit of continuous functions is continuous, remains correct in these settings.
- for every entourage V in X, there exists an α0, such that for every x in I and every α => α0: (fα(x), f(x)) is in V.
History
Cauchy in 1821 published a faulty proof of the false statement that the pointwise limit of a sequence of continuous functions is always continuous. Fourier and Abel found counter examples in the context of Fourier series. Dirichlet then analyzed Cauchy's proof and found the mistake: the notion of pointwise convergence had to be replaced by uniform convergence.
Riemann pointed to the need for distinguishing between absolutely and conditionally convergent series by his Rearrangement Theorem. It shows that it is possible to rearrange the terms of a conditionally cnvergent series so that the derived series convergest to any desired limit
Reference
Theory and Application of Infinite Series, Konrad Knopf, Blackie and Son, London, 1954, reprinted by Dover Publications, ISBN 0486661652
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In topology, one defines uniform spaces in order to study concepts such as uniform continuity, completeness and uniform convergence. Uniform spaces generalize metric spaces and topological groups and therefore underlie most of analysis. They were introduced by Bourbaki.If X is a set, a nonempty system Φ of subsets of the Cartesian product X × X is called a uniform structure on X if the following axioms are satisfied:
The set X together with a uniform structure Φ is called a uniform space. The elements of Φ are called entourages.
- if U is in Φ, then U contains { (x, x) : x in X }.
- if U is in Φ, then { (y, x) : (x, y) in U } is also in Φ
- if U is in Φ and V is a subset of X × X which contains U, then V is in Φ
- if U and V are in Φ, then U ∩ V is in Φ
- if U is in Φ, then there exists V in Φ such that, whenever (x, y) and (y, z) are in V, then (x, z) is in U.
Intuitively, two points x and y are "close together" if the pair (x, y) is contained in many entourages. A single entourage captures a particular degree of "closeness". Interpreted thusly, the axioms mean the following:
The essential difference between a topological space and a uniform space is that in a uniform space, you can formalize the idea that "x1 is about as far away from x2 as y1 is from y2" while in a topological space you can only formalize "x1 is about as far away from x as x2 is from x".
- every point is close to itself
- if x is close to y, then y is close to x
- relaxing a degree of closeness yields another degree of closeness
- by combining two degrees of closeness, you get another one
- to every degree of closeness, there exists another one that captures "twice as close".
Uniform spaces may be defined alternatively and equivalently using systems of pseudo-metrics, an approach which is often useful in functional analysis.
Every uniform space X becomes a topological space by defining a subset O of X to be open if and only if for every x in O there exists an entourage V such that { y in X : (x, y) in V } is a subset of O. It is possible that two different uniform structures generate the same topology on X.
Every metric space (M, d) can be considered as a uniform space by defining a subset V of M × M to be an entourage if and only if there exists an ε > 0 such that for all x, y in M with d(x, y) < ε we have (x, y) in V. This uniform structure on M generates the usual topology on M.
Every topological group (G,*) becomes a uniform space if we define a subset V of G × G to be an entourage if and only if the set {x*y-1 : (x, y) is in V} is a neighborhood of the identity element of G. This uniform structure on G is called the right uniformity on G, because for every a in G, the right multiplication x |-> x*a is uniformly continuous with respect to this uniform structure. One may also define a left uniformity on G; the two need not coincide, but they both generate the given topology on G.
Every uniform space is a completely regular topological space, and conversely, every completely regular space can be turned into a uniform space (often in many ways) so that the induced topology coincides with the given one.
A uniform space X is a T0-space if and only if the intersection of all the elements of its uniform structure equals the diagonal {(x, x) : x in X}. If this is the case, X is in fact a Tychonoff space and in particular Hausdorff.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| UNCID | English | UNiform rules of Conduct for Interchange of Trade data by teletransmission | Computer - (EDIFACT) |
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Synonyms: UniformSynonyms: consistent (adj), undifferentiated (adj), unvarying (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: differentiated (adj), multiform (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Outfit, equipment, trousseau; uniform, regimentals; continentals; canonicals; livery, gear, harness, turn-out, accouterment, caparison, suit, rigging, trappings, traps, slops, togs, toggery; day wear, night wear, zoot suit; designer clothes; masquerade. |
Frequency | Adjective: frequent, many times, not rare, thickcoming, incessant, perpetual, continual, steady, constant, thick; uniform; repeated; customary; (habit); regular (normal); according to rule; (conformable). |
Indication | Heraldry, crest; coat of arms, arms; armorial bearings, hatchment; escutcheon, scutcheon; shield, supporters; livery, uniform; epaulet, chevron; garland, love knot, favor. |
Order | Adjective: orderly, regular; in order,in trim, in apple-pie order, in its proper place; neat, tidy, en regle, well regulated, correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic; unconfused; (see confuse; ); arranged. |
Simpleness | Adjective: simple, uniform, of a piece, homogeneous, single, pure, sheer, neat. |
Symmetry | Regular, uniform, balanced; equal; parallel, coextensive. |
Uniformity | Verb: be uniform; Adjective: accord with; run through. become uniform; Adjective: conform to. |
Render uniform, homogenize; Adjective: assimilate, level, smooth, dress. | |
Adjective: uniform; homogeneous, homologous;of a piece, consistent, connatural; monotonous, even, invariable; regular, unchanged, undeviating, unvaried, unvarying. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Uniform |
| English words defined with "uniform": dress uniform ♦ full-dress uniform ♦ In full uniform ♦ military uniform. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "uniform": bivariate uniform distribution ♦ CIE 1964 uniform color space, CIE 1964 uniform colour space ♦ unauthorised wearing of the military uniform, uniform circuit family, Uniform Commercial Code, Uniform Naming Convention, Uniform Relatives, Uniform Resource Citation, Uniform Resource Locater, Uniform Resource Name, Uniform Resource Number. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "uniform": Uniformism. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Uniform" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (uniform), Albanian (equable, measured, monotone, monotonous), Danish (uniform), Dutch (uniform), German (outfit, regimentals, uniform, uniformly), Romanian (equable, flat, level, monotonous, uniform, uniformly), Swedish (full dress, regimentals, uniform). |
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Screenplays | What if at a key moment in the game my, my uniform bursts open and, uh, oops (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele) I wore them under my Chicago Bulls uniform every game (Space Jam; writing credit: Leonardo Benvenuti; Steve Rudnick) What sort of uniform is that (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz) You're such a coward, I can't believe they let you wear a uniform. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) Jerry Seinfeld, you're not fit to wear this uniform. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Uniform (1971) Girls in Uniform (1967) Mädchen in Uniform (1958) Screen Snapshots: Memories in Uniform (1954) Hollywood in Uniform (1943) | |
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 | These pictures are electron micrographs of macrophages in the brain before and after in vitro infection by HIV-I. The pictures with the uniform cells are normal. The ones with spaced out neoplastic cells are infected. When the cells are infected with HIV-I, clusters are formed. Credit: Dr. Suzanne Gartner (photographer). |  | Virions are spheroidal, uniform in shape and are 40-60nm in diameter. The name "Yellow Fever" is due to the ensuing jaundice that affects some patients. The vector is the Aedes aegypti or Haemagogus spp. mosquito. Credit: CDC. |
 | It's important not to confuse the hairs on the siphon with the uniform, closely set teeth of the pecten row. Credit: CDC. |  | Ernest Lester Jones and Mrs. Jones Director of C&GS 1915-1929 Ernest Eickelberg in uniform On the LYDONIA. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Glendon E. Boothe In uniform at triangulation station. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Horace G. Conerly In World War II Marine uniform. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Prince Albert I of Monaco, 1848-1922, a great oceanographer, statesman, and humanitarian. He is wearing the "habit ver", the uniform of the Institut de France of which the Academie des sciences de Paris is one of five components. Through his generosity, the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco was established. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Food service workers will trade in their white uniforms for distinctive "chefs" jackets and blue trousers. The Air Force chief of staff recently approved the new uniform which establishes a standard uniform for wear by people working in dining f. |
 | Decked out in a Civil War Union soldier's uniform, Master Sgt. Jari Villanueva stands at a bugle display table at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., during a living history performance of military buglers. Villanueva is holding a keyed bugle, which was an. |  | For 50 years, ARS laboratories have worked with all segments of the industry to help provide consumers with uniform, flavorful, nutritious bread and other wheat products. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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| "Rose" by Laszlo Gaal Commentary: "An example of a good macro,some uniform black on the leftt,nice green background on the right and a okay quality picture.This is how they should be all." |
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Charles Dickens | We know, Mr. Weller -- we, who are men of the world -- that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later. |
Giambattista Vico | Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth. |
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US Constitution | 1791 | In January 1786, the Legislature of Virginia passed a resolution providing for the appointment of five commissioners, who, or any three of them, should meet such commissioners as might be appointed in the other States of the Union, at a time and place to be agreed upon, to take into consideration the trade of the United States; to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony; and to report to the several States such an act, relative to this great object, as, when ratified by them, will enable the United States in Congress effectually to provide for the same. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Such regulations must be reasonable and uniform and must not impede traffic unnecessarily. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | They would wear the uniform of their own countries but with different badges. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Theodule embraced her a second time, and she had the happiness of having her neck a little chafed by the braid of his uniform. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Management modalities for ASCUS and LSIL are not as uniform. (references) | |
The pathology community should adopt a uniform grading system and routinely use this discriminant. (references) | ||
The goal is to make these measures more reliable, uniform, and helpful to consumers in making health care choices. (references) | ||
Business | Pakistan's Tariff rates are uniform and applicable to all countries. (references) | |
It is a uniform name for the function of an office found in 20 counties. (references) | ||
Telia removed the “regional call” in 1997 and during 1999 several companies introduced a uniform tariff for national calls. (references) | ||
Children | Belize | Education is nominally free, but various school, book, and uniform fees place education out of reach for many poor children. (references) |
South Africa | The law provides greater educational opportunities for disadvantaged children--traditionally black children--through a uniform system for the organization, governance, and funding of schools. (references) | |
Uganda | Key components of the UPE program include eliminating compulsory uniform requirements, providing free textbooks, eliminating fees imposed by schools, and the payment of Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) fees by the Government. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | India | Hindu groups such as the RSS are pushing for a uniform civil code that would treat members of all religions alike. (references) |
Cuba | Members of the armed forces do not attend religious services in their uniform, probably to avoid possible reprimand by superiors. (references) | |
Macedonia | On June 25, reserve policemen and soldiers, some in uniform and bearing service weapons, joined a demonstration of internally displaced persons (IDP's) who attacked the Parliament. (references) | |
Economic History | Uzbekistan | Uzbekistan does not have a uniform, well-defined method of settling disputes. (references) |
Haiti | Bureaucratic procedures are not uniform and frequently involve excessive red tape. (references) | |
Austria | Even when concentrating on importers of U.S. products, there is no uniform structure. (references) | |
Human Rights | Turkmenistan | In practice adherence to due process is not uniform, particularly in the lower courts in rural areas. (references) |
Netherlands | The Supreme Court acts as the highest appellate court and ensures the uniform interpretation of the law. (references) | |
Nicaragua | The National Police provide them with a uniform, and in some cases, with a gun, at the discretion of the police chief. (references) | |
Minorities | Hungary | The Ombudsman continued to promote a uniform antidiscrimination law. (references) |
Netherlands | The council also has agreed to a uniform national registration system of cases of racism and discrimination. (references) | |
Netherlands | A central government organization was set up in 1999 to fight racial discrimination and to collect nationwide statistics on incidents of discrimination, but it has yet to work out a uniform system. (references) | |
Political Economy | NORWAY | Labor legislation and practice is uniform throughout Norway. (references) |
PHILIPPINES | Labor law is uniform throughout the country, including industrial zones. (references) | |
ROMANIA | Negotiating contracts can be time consuming and, once concluded, enforcement is not uniform. (references) | |
Political Rights | Mexico | The IFE had implemented extensive constitutional and legislative reforms in 1996 to help prevent electoral fraud and to create more uniform conditions for political party participation by regulating campaign finance, advertising, and other areas. (references) |
Trade | Slovak Rep | The rules appear to provide a uniform and neutral system of valuation. (references) |
Pakistan | Pakistan has no uniform or universal system of imposing labeling and marking requirements on products. (references) | |
Travel | Burma | Photographing people in uniform or any military installation could lead to arrest or the confiscation of cameras and film. (references) |
Russia | Although, the general trends of reforms that are currently in progress or under discussion should lead towards simplification of regulations and more uniform administration. (references) | |
Women | Indonesia | However, by year's end, no rape investigation standards were in place, nor were uniform procedures followed. (references) |
Worker Rights | Mauritania | NGO positions on the existence of slavery are not uniform. (references) |
Thailand | The Government mandates a uniform maximum workweek of 48 hours, with a limit on overtime of 35 hours per week. (references) | |
Hong Kong | Aside from a small number of trades where a uniform wage structure exists, wage levels customarily are fixed by individual agreement between employer and employee and are determined by supply and demand. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes." |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Donald Rumsfeld | It's an amazing job. It is so important to the country and it's so complex. But the great thing about it is you're dealing with such spectacular people, the men and women in uniform. |
Rush Limbaugh | Faced with this uniform show of vocal conservative support for Israel, the Hollywood Left and other members of the liberal population are in a real quandary. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Upon this general view of the subject it is obvious that there is only wanting to the fiscal prosperity of the Government the restoration of an uniform medium of exchange. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | To promote that result by friendly counsels with other powers, including Spain herself, has been the uniform policy of this Government. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | There are laws establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States and for arming and equipping its whole body. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Both the constitutionality and the expediency of the law creating this bank are well questioned by a large portion of our fellow citizens, and it must be admitted by all that it has failed in the great end of establishing an uniform and sound currency. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Our country's uniform is once again being worn with pride. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | In Bosnia and around the world, our men and women in uniform always do their mission well. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Uniform" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 53.59% of the time. "Uniform" is used about 1,767 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 53.59% | 947 | 7,662 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 46.35% | 819 | 8,544 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,767 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Superior Uniform Group, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "uniform": academical uniform ♦ army uniform ♦ be issue a uniform ♦ be issued a uniform ♦ be uniform ♦ become uniform ♦ bivariate uniform distribution ♦ CIE 1964 uniform color space ♦ CIE 1964 uniform colour space ♦ dress uniform ♦ field uniform ♦ gala uniform ♦ general wear uniform ♦ in full uniform ♦ in uniform ♦ issue uniform ♦ make uniform ♦ military uniform ♦ of uniform thickness ♦ official uniform ♦ out of uniform ♦ parade uniform ♦ school uniform ♦ service uniform ♦ street uniform ♦ unauthorised wearing of the military uniform ♦ uniform acceleration ♦ uniform matter ♦ uniform motion ♦ uniform Naming Convention ♦ uniform Resource Citation ♦ uniform Resource Locater ♦ uniform resource locator ♦ uniform resource locators ♦ uniform Resource Name ♦ uniform Resource Number ♦ uniform size ♦ uniform sword ♦ uniform temperature ♦ uniform twist ♦ uniform velocity. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "uniform": uniform-chromaticity-scale, uniform-cost, uniform-spectrum, uniform-state. | |
Ending with "uniform": non-uniform, out-of-uniform, quasi-uniform, reasonably-uniform, semi-uniform. | |
Containing "uniform": Non-Uniform Memory Access, non-uniform quantising logarithmic compression, Non-Uniform Rational B Spline. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
uniform | 4,208 | school girl uniform | 299 |
school uniform | 2,132 | scrubs uniform | 291 |
nursing uniform | 1,484 | jasco uniform | 282 |
baseball uniform | 1,291 | navy uniform | 273 |
cheerleading uniform | 1,131 | chef uniform | 257 |
soccer uniform | 839 | life uniform | 253 |
medical uniform | 826 | cheerleader uniform | 251 |
nurse uniform | 793 | uniform city | 226 |
military uniform | 671 | civil war uniform | 224 |
hospital uniform | 599 | uniform code military justice | 193 |
police uniform | 493 | volleyball uniform | 191 |
martial arts uniform | 487 | ups uniform | 186 |
uniform commercial code | 450 | uniform slut zone | 183 |
softball uniform | 429 | postal uniform | 180 |
basketball uniform | 377 | work uniform | 174 |
karate uniform | 364 | crest uniform | 170 |
sex uniform | 356 | restaurant uniform | 168 |
team uniform | 324 | football uniform | 164 |
uniform building code | 309 | cherokee uniform | 156 |
scrub uniform | 305 | landau uniform | 156 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "uniform"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | uniform. (various references) | |
Albanian | unik (common, only, single, unique, unitary), uniformë (kit, regimentals), trajtë (configuration, contraction, figuration, form, frame, line, make, shape, turn), konstant, i pandërprerë (ceaseless, continual, continuous, entire, incessant, inseverable, perpetual, solid, sustained, unceasing, uninterrupted, unremitting), i njëtrajtshëm (equable, equal, even, homogeneous, steady), i njësishëm, i njëjtë (alike, equal, even, homogeneous, identic, identical, like, same, very), i barabartë (coequal, commensurate, compeer, equal, equiponderant, even, like, match, peer). (various references) | |
Arabic | منتظم (constant, even, orderly, regular, steady), متماثل (akin, corresponding, equal, homogeneous, homologous, identification, matching, parallel, symmetric, symmetrical), متحد (combined, consolidated, incorporated, integrated, joined, joint, merged, standardized, united), متشاكل (homologous), مطرد (constant, equable, regular, unremitting), لباس موحد, جعله منتظما, بزة نظامية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | униформено облекло, униформен (regulation, uniformed), униформа (order), уеднаквявам (equalize, standardize, unify), форма (build, conformation, figuration, form, frame, manner, matrix, medium, mode, mould, shape, turn), обличам в униформа, непроменлив (constant, even, persistent), неизменен (immutable, inalterable, incommutable, invariable, permanent, rigid, standing, stationary, steady, stereotyped, unaltered, undeviating, unfailing, unvaried), еднороден (homogeneous, indiscrete, massive, unblended), еднакъв (alike, coequal, equable, equal, even, identic, identical, invariable, level, like, one, same, self, twin, unaffected), един и същ (one), постоянен (abiding, changeless, chronic, constant, continuous, direct, firm, fixed, frequent, hourly, immovable, invariable, lasting, minutely, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, regular, secular, settled, stable, standing, static, steadfast, steady, stock, substantive, sustained, unalterable, undeviating, unfailing, unidirectional, uninterrupted, unvaried). (various references) | |
Chinese | 制服 . (various references) | |
Czech | uniforma (dress), stejnomìrný (constant, even, regular), stejný (alike, coequal, consistent, equal, even, identical, like, one, parallel, same, tantamount), rovnomìrný (even, steady), konstantní (constant, invariable), jednoznaèný (clear, definite, unambiguous, unequivocal), jednotvárný (drab, dull, featureless, humdrum, jejune, monotonous, trivial, uneventful, unrelieved), jednotný (blanket, integrated, undivided, uniformed, United), identický (identical). (various references) | |
Danish | uniform. (various references) | |
Dutch | uniform (regular), tenue. (various references) | |
Esperanto | unuforma, uniformo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | eintáttaður, einsháttaður. (various references) | |
Farsi | یکنواخت کردن , یک ریخت , یک شکل , متحدالشکل , اونیفورم . (various references) | |
Finnish | univormu, yhtenäinen (connected, consistent, continuous, homogeneous), yhdenmukainen (analogous, consistent, symmetric), virkapuku, tasakokoinen (regular), tasainen (even, flat, level, smooth, steady), juhlapuku (evening dress, full dress, full-dress). (various references) | |
French | uniforme. (various references) | |
Frisian | unifoarm. (various references) | |
German | Uniform (outfit, regimentals, uniformly), gleichförmig (equable, equably, of the same shape), einheitlich (coherent, consistent, consistently, integrative, standard, unified, uniformly, unitary, unrelieved), einförmig (monotonous, uniformly, unrelieved). (various references) | |
Greek | στολή (array, costume). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מדים (livery), מדי צבא (military uniform), קבוע (constant, fitted, fixation, fixed, fixing, fixture, habitual, permanent, regular, set, settled, stable, standing, stated, stationary, steady), קצוב (fixed, rationed, rhytmic, rhytmical), אחיד (even, homogeneous, integral, unified), בגדי שרד (habiliments, livery, official uniform), בגד שרד. (various references) | |
Hungarian | egyforma (alike, all the same, equable, equal to, evenly proportioned share, level, much of a muchness, stereotyped), egyenruha (greens, livery, turnout). (various references) | |
Indonesian | seragam, beraturan. (various references) | |
Italian | uniforme (equable, flat, monotonous, plain, solid). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 同じ (changeless, common, equal, equivalent, identical, same, similar). (various references) | |
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