This shows grade level based on the word's complexity.
This shows grade level based on the word's complexity.
QUIZ
GOOSES. GEESES. I WANT THIS QUIZ ON PLURAL NOUNS!
Test how much you really know about regular and irregular plural nouns with this quiz.
Question 1 of 9
Which of the following nouns has an irregular plural form?
Also especially in technical use, standard gage .
Origin of standard gauge
First recorded in 1870–75
OTHER WORDS FROM standard gauge
standard-gauge, standard-gauged, adjectiveWords nearby standard gauge
standard dollar,
Standard English,
standard error,
standard error of difference,
standard function,
standard gauge,
standard generalized mark-up language,
Standard Grade,
standard housing benefit,
standardization,
standardize Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2022
How to use standard gauge in a sentence
Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.
The same Pediatrics journal notes that 17 states have some form of exception to the standard parental consent requirement.
Christopher Nolan, Interstellar “My films are always held to a weirdly high standard,” Nolan told me.
Completed in 1953 and composed with standard line breaks and punctuation, the book was completely ignored upon submission.
The End of Gangs By Sam Quinones, Pacific-Standard Los Angeles gave America the modern street gang.
And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind.
The new creed, called the King's Book, approved by the houses of convocation, and made the standard of English orthodoxy.
The news of these successes brought crowds of volunteers to our standard.
As regards Great Britain, the gold standard is yet preserved for all practical purposes.
Above, great standard electric lamps shed their white glare upon the eddying throng casting a myriad of grotesque shadows.
British Dictionary definitions for standard gauge
noun
a railway track with a distance of 4 ft 8 1/2 in. (1.435 m) between the lines; used on most railwaysSee also narrow gauge, broad gauge adjective standard-gauge, standard-gauged
of, relating to, or denoting a railway with a standard gauge
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012