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yardstick

[ yahrd-stik ]

noun

  1. a stick a yard long, commonly marked with subdivisions, used for measuring.
  2. any standard of measurement or judgment:

    Test scores are not the only yardstick of academic achievement.



yardstick

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noun

  1. a measure or standard used for comparison

    on what kind of yardstick is he basing his criticism?

  2. a graduated stick, one yard long, used for measurement
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Origin of yardstick1

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20; yard 1 + stick 1
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Down the status and stature yardstick are the shorter, stockier Mediterranean fan palm as well as the jelly palm, whose fruit lives up to the name.

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And Demi Moore became an Oscars frontrunner when she told women to “put down the yardstick†in her Golden Globes acceptance speech for "The Substance."

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This Eras Tour will be the yardstick against which the rest of her career will be measured - and her next move will be watched closely by fans and critics alike.

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It’s going to be a yardstick Sunday for Los Angeles NFL teams.

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By L.A.’s yardstick of history, its story goes way back, like Queen-Victoria-and-first-movie-camera far back, to when it was first dedicated to the nation’s suffering soldiery, and then back a century before then.

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