Usually means: Guideline governing behavior or procedure.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. rule: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rule: Merriam-Webster
  3. rule, the rule: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rule: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rule, the rule: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rule: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rule, rule: Wordnik
  8. rule, the rule: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rule, rule: Wiktionary
  10. rule: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rule: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rule: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. rule: Dictionary.com
  14. rule (n.), rule (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rule: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. R.U.L.E, Rule (Nas song), Rule (song), Rule (surname), Rule, The Rule (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rule: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rule: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rule: Rhymezone
  20. rule: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rule: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. rule: FreeDictionary.org
  23. rule: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rule: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. rule: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Philosophy of Mind (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. rule: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. rule: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. rule: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Rule (measurement tool), rule: Legal dictionary
  8. rule: Financial dictionary
  9. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rule: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Rule: Game Dictionary
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. Rule (measurement tool), rule: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. rule: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. RULE: Acronym Finder
  3. rule: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. rule: Idioms
  6. rule: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rule: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rule, rule: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Rule: 1960's Slang
  3. Rule, The Rule, r.u.l.e: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A regulation, law, guideline.
noun:  A regulating principle.
noun:  The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
noun:  A normal condition or state of affairs.
noun:  (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
noun:  (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
noun:  (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
noun:  A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
noun:  A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
noun:  (printing, dated) 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.
verb:  (transitive, stative) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
verb:  (slang, intransitive, stative) To excel.
verb:  (intransitive) To decide judicially.
verb:  (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
verb:  (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
noun:  (obsolete) Revelry.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To revel.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Arkansas, United States.
noun:  A town in Haskell County, Texas, United States.

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