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 Translation for 'yardstick' from English to Norwegian
NOUN   a yardstick | yardsticks
SYNO yard measure | yardstick
målestokk {m}yardstick [often fig.]
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Translation for 'yardstick' from English to Norwegian

yardstick [often fig.]
målestokk {m}
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Usage Examples English
  • stated that "Chessmaster 2000" "is now the yardstick for which other similar programs will be measured", and favorably cited Software Toolworks' decision to give all versions of the game the same sophisticated engine.
  • In other words, we can only call someone "less than human" if we have a metaphysical "yardstick" with which to measure their prototypical human-ness.
  • This concept of bioequivalence is important because it is currently used as a yardstick in the authorization of generic drugs in many countries.
  • They have a characteristic elongated head and body which makes them resemble a yardstick for measuring the water surface.
  • A critique of critical historiography cites the risk of judging the realities of the past by the yardstick of what is true in the present so that it becomes illusory and can obscure identity.

  • In a sense, Van den Enden can be considered a forerunner of the French Revolution where the concepts of liberty, equality and fraternity became the yardstick of a new model for society.
  • However, the list of responsibilities and specific performance results are job-dependent. It is key that the list provides a yardstick to objectively discuss, monitor and evaluate performance.
  • A meterstick, metrestick, or yardstick is either a straightedge or foldable ruler used to measure length, and is especially common in the construction industry.
  • Those events were the genuine proof that the Italian government had decided to treat the tragic event of Fiumicino with the yardstick of "national interest", accepting compromises that were sometimes even humiliating.
  • With a Portsmouth yardstick Handicap of 740 the 49er is the fastest two person one-design monohull dinghy.

  • Brooke, became the yardstick by which later comedians were judged.
  • PHRF is used mainly for larger sailboats (i.e., 7 meters and above). For dinghy racing, the Portsmouth yardstick handicapping system is more likely to be used.
  • The page layout style he followed in publishing "Paradeesaya" later became a yardstick for various tabloids.
  • The brand is a yardstick for sustainable profitability.
  • The important yardstick is that of fairness.

  • The principle of humanity must be the ethical yardstick for all economic action.
  • If one were to measure a stretch of coastline with a yardstick, one would get a shorter result than if the same stretch were measured with a [...] ruler.
  • he KJV and other accurate and reliable translations are like the common yardstick, though not 100% are good and safe enough for use" while "the original language Scripture underlying the KJV is like the "perfect platinum yardstick" of the Smithsonian Institute [...], inerrant, infallible, authoritative".
  • West Bengal is reported to have taken similar steps; yet, it does not measure up to the yardstick of a complete merger.
  • Napoleon was a champion of the metric system (introduced in France in 1799) and had no use for the old yardsticks.

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