Crossword-Solution: YARDSTICK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Yardstick | n. | A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc. |
We have 26 clues for the answer “YARDSTICK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Standard for judging or comparing | 1 answer |
| Standard for comparison (of three-foot length?) | 1 answer |
| standard against which to judge other people or things | 1 answer |
| Tailor's measuring device | 1 answer |
| Standard used in measurement | 1 answer |
| Measure against which to make comparison | 1 answer |
| Means of measuring | 1 answer |
| General measure for comparison | 1 answer |
| Gardener's gauge? | 1 answer |
| Extended rule? | 1 answer |
| Comparison standard | 1 answer |
| A three-foot pole? | 1 answer |
| Tailor's device | 2 answers |
| STANDARD of measurement | 4 answers |
| Tape alternative | 4 answers |
| Measuring tool | 5 answers |
| Yard measure | 5 answers |
| MEASURING stick | 7 answers |
| Standard of comparison | 7 answers |
| touchstone | 7 answers |
| A MEASURE OR STANDARD USED FOR COMPARISON | 10 answers |
| Measuring device. | 14 answers |
| Benchmark | 16 answers |
| criterion | 25 answers |
| Standard | 66 answers |
| Measure | 111 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CMEAZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with YARDSTICK (5)
Clock, buhl clock that ticked out the tortuous hours of my birth, Clock, evil, wizened dwarf of a clock, how many years of agony have you relentlessly measured, Yardstick of my stifling shroud? I am Aumaury de Montreuil; once quick, soon to be eaten of worms.
Out in the workshop itself, the designers and cutters, those jealous artists of the pencil, shears, and yardstick, looked on in awed admiration on those rare occasions when the feminine member of the business took the scissors in her firm white hands and slashed boldly into a shimmering length of petticoat-silk.
The way this works, I just tie this silk thrid to me door knob and off I walks, it a reeling out behind, and whin I turn back it takes up as I come, and whin I get home I take the yardstick and measure me string, and be the same token, it tells me how far I've traveled." As he talked he drew out another shining length and added it to the first, and then another and a last, fine as a wheat straw.
They make of their own bundle of desires, likes, and dislikes a yardstick wherewith to measure the desires, likes, and dislikes of all creatures.
Thus it was, after the fashion of the human, that Johnny made of himself a yardstick with which to measure the universe.
Quotes with YARDSTICK (3)
Hope,... which whispered from Pandora's box after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion... It's a law of motion, a fact of physics..., no different from the stages of white dwarves and red giants. Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yardstic…
How can so many (white, male) writers narratively justify restricting the agency of their female characters on the grounds of sexism = authenticity while simultaneously writing male characters with conveniently modern values? The habit of authors writing Sexism Without Sexists in genre novels is seemingly pathological. Women are stuffed in the fridge under cover of "authenticity" by secondary characters and villains because too many authors flinch from the "authenticity" of s…
We shall always meet teachers but we shall seldom meet good teachers. We shall seldom meet a good teacher who is good enough to direct the body, mind and soul towards the path of true purposefulness. We shall hardly meet good teachers who are good enough to leave indelible and distinctive footprints in our minds; good teachers whose words, thoughts, actions and wonderful deeds would continue to reecho themselves in our minds and become the yardstick, guiding principles and re…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1983–2019).