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(en noun)

A principle or example or measure used for comparison.

# A level of quality or attainment.

#*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

# Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.

#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

the court, which used to be the standard of property and correctness of speech

#* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

# A musical work of established popularity.

# A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.

# The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.

#* (John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)

By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.

# A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.

A vertical pole with something at its apex.

# An object supported in an upright position, such as a .

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# The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.

#* Fairfax

His armies, in the following day, / On those fair plains their standards proud display.

# One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.

# Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.

# A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.

#* Sir W. Temple

In France part of their gardens is laid out for flowers, others for fruits; some standards , some against walls.

# The sheth of a plough.

A manual transmission vehicle.

(botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.

(shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.

A large drinking cup.

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* 1842 , Thomas Campbell, Frederick the Great and his Times , vol. II, p. 47:

Another account says that, on the morning of the 31st of May, the king delivered to the prince-royal the crown, the sceptre, and the key of his treasure and gave him his blessing. The privy-counsillor Vockerodt drew up at his desire a protocol of the transaction.

* 1970 , Matthew Smith Anderson, The Great Powers and the Near East, 1774-1923 , p. 32:

The terms of this protocol formed the basis for the Treaty of London signed by the British, French and Russian governments on 6 July 1827.

(international law) An amendment to an official treaty.

* 2002 , Philippe Sands, Principles of International Environmental Law , p. 917 n. 253:

The 1992 Protocol amended the definitions of other terms, including ‘ship’, ‘oil’ and ‘incident’: Art. 2.

The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page.

* 1991 , Leila Avrin, Scribes, Script, and Books , p. 146:

They marked the beginning of each scroll with their protocol''''', a practice that continued in the papyrus trade in the Byzantine Empire [...] into the Islamic period, when there were bilingual ' protocols in Greek and Arabic.

The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc.

* 1985 , Archivum Historiae Pontificiae , v. 23, p. 14:

The protocol of the bull contains elements that appear to be formulaic by the time of John XVIII 's pontificate.

(sciences) The original notes of observations made during an experiment; also, the precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment.

* 1931 , Gye & Purdy, The Cause of Cancer , p. 194:

The following is an abstract of the protocol of the experiment: Tumour extract. —A measured 16 c.c. of minced Rous Sarcoma tissue was ground with sand and extracted with 400 c.c. of 0.8-per-cent. saline.

The official rules and guidelines for heads of state and other dignitaries, governing accepted behaviour in relations with other diplomatic representatives or over affairs of state.

* 2009 , Laura Johnson, "A mwah too far", The Guardian , 19 Sep 2009:

Even the Queen (for whom the curtsey is a more standard address) was recently treated to an enthusiastic Obama embrace. Her Majesty, who is not normally known for partaking in such public displays of affection, seemed unperturbed by Michelle Obama's disregard for royal protocol .

(by extension) An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.

* 2010 , The Guardian , 16 Jul 2010:

For those uncertain in the protocol of handshaking a formula for the perfect handshake has been devised by scientists at the University of Manchester.

(computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.

* 2006 , Zheng & Ni, Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing , p. 444:

An exception is Jabber, which is designed based on an open protocol called the extensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP).

(medicine) The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order.