A principle or example or measure used for comparison. • A level of quality or attainment. • Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model. • 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. • standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language. • A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid. • Grade level in primary or secondary education. • A vertical pole with something at its apex. • An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard. • The flag or ensign carried by a military unit. • 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 sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it. • 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. • The sheth of a plough. • A cairn or tumulus. • A hill with a cairn or tumulus at its summit. • A manual transmission vehicle. • The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla. • 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. • A collar of mail protecting the neck. • Ellipsis of standard poodle. • A measure for timber.