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Rule (noun)
A regulation, law, guideline.
“All participants must adhere to the rules.”
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Rule (noun)
A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
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Rule (noun)
A writing.
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Rule (noun)
A regulating principle.
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Rule (noun)
The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
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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.”
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Rule (noun)
Conduct; behaviour.
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Rule (noun)
An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
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Rule (noun)
A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
“a rule for extracting the cube root”
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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.
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Rule (verb)
To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
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Rule (verb)
To excel.
“This game rules!”
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Rule (verb)
To mark (paper or the like) with rules lines.
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Rule (verb)
To decide judicially.
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Rule (verb)
To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
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Thearchy (noun)
A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.
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Thearchy (noun)
A system or ordering of deities. Compare pantheon.