Rule (noun)
A regulation, law, guideline.
“All participants must adhere to the rules.”
Rule (noun)
A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
Rule (noun)
A writing.
Rule (noun)
A regulating principle.
Rule (noun)
The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
Rule (noun)
A normal condition or state of affairs.
“My rule is to rise at six o’clock.”
“As a rule, our senior editors are serious-minded.”
Rule (noun)
Conduct; behaviour.
Rule (noun)
An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
Rule (noun)
A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
“a rule for extracting the cube root”
Rule (noun)
A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
Rule (verb)
To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
Rule (verb)
To excel.
“This game rules!”
Rule (verb)
To mark (paper or the like) with rules lines.
Rule (verb)
To decide judicially.
Rule (verb)
To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
Sector (noun)
section
Sector (noun)
zone (designated area).
Sector (noun)
part of a circle, extending to the center
Sector (noun)
fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium (compare to block)
Sector (noun)
an area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible
Sector (noun)
one of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier
Sector (noun)
a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.
Sector (noun)
an instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge.
Sector (noun)
a field of economic activity
“public sector;”
“private sector”
Sector (noun)
A toothed gear whose face is the arc of a circle.
Sector (noun)
an area or portion that is distinct from others
“operations in the southern sector of the North Sea”
Sector (noun)
a distinct part or branch of a nation’s economy or society or of a sphere of activity such as education
“the government aimed to reassure the industrial and commercial sector”
Sector (noun)
a subdivision of an area for military operations.
Sector (noun)
a subdivision of a track on a magnetic disk.
Sector (noun)
the plane figure enclosed by two radii of a circle or ellipse and the arc between them.
Sector (noun)
a mathematical instrument consisting of two arms hinged at one end and marked with sines, tangents, etc. for making diagrams.