Standard vs. Unit

Standardadjective

Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.

Unitnoun

(mathematics) Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.

Standardadjective

(of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.

Unitnoun

(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.

‘The centimetre is a unit of length.’;

Standardadjective

Having recognized excellence or authority.

‘standard works in history; standard authors’;

Unitnoun

The number one.

Standardadjective

Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.

Unitnoun

An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.

‘He was a member of a special police unit.’;

Standardadjective

Having a manual transmission.

Unitnoun

A member of a military organization.

‘The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units. (i.e., 20 tanks)’;

Standardadjective

As normally supplied (not optional).

Unitnoun

Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.

Standardadjective

(linguistics) Conforming to the standard variety.

Unitnoun

An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.

Standardnoun

A principle or example or measure used for comparison.

Unitnoun

A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.

Standardnoun

A level of quality or attainment.

Unitnoun

With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.

Standardnoun

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

Unitnoun

(algebra) The identity element, neutral element.

Standardnoun

A musical work of established popularity.

Unitnoun

(algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.

Standardnoun

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

Unitnoun

(category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor.

Standardnoun

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

Unitnoun

(geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.

Standardnoun

A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.

Unitnoun

(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.

‘We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.’;

Standardnoun

(India) Grade level in primary education.

‘I am in fifth standard.’;

Unitnoun

(UK) A unit of alcohol.

Standardnoun

A vertical pole with something at its apex.

Unitnoun

One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).

Standardnoun

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

Unitnoun

a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.

Standardnoun

The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.

Unitnoun

(historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.

Standardnoun

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

Unitnoun

A work unit.

Standardnoun

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

Unitnoun

A physically large person.

Standardnoun

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.

Unitadjective

For each unit.

‘We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.’;

Standardnoun

The sheth of a plough.

Unitadjective

(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.

Standardnoun

A manual transmission vehicle.

Unitnoun

A single thing or person.

Standardnoun

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

Unitnoun

The least whole number; one.

‘Units are the integral parts of any large number.’;

Standardnoun

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

Unitnoun

A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.

Standardnoun

A large drinking cup.

Unitnoun

Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind.

Standardnoun

(sociolinguistics) standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language

Unitnoun

A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole.

Standardinterjection

(slang) An expression of agreement

Unitnoun

any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange;

‘the dollar is the United States unit of currency’; ‘a unit of wheat is a bushel’; ‘change per unit volume’;

Standardnoun

A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign.

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

Unitnoun

an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole;

‘the reduced the number of units and installations’; ‘the word is a basic linguistic unit’;

Standardnoun

That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard.

Unitnoun

an organization regarded as part of a larger social group;

‘the coach said the offensive unit did a good job’; ‘after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit’;

Standardnoun

That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test.

‘The court, which used to be the standard of propriety and correctness of speech.’; ‘A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.’;

Unitnoun

a single undivided whole;

‘an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another’;

Standardnoun

The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority.

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

Unitnoun

a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else;

‘units of nucleic acids’;

Standardnoun

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.

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

Unitnoun

an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity;

‘how big is that part compared to the whole?’; ‘the team is a unit’;

Standardnoun

The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.

Standardnoun

An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.

Standardnoun

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

Standardnoun

The sheth of a plow.

Standardnoun

A large drinking cup.

Standardadjective

Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.

Standardadjective

Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.

Standardadjective

Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees.

Standardnoun

a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated;

‘they set the measure for all subsequent work’;

Standardnoun

the ideal in terms of which something can be judged;

‘they live by the standards of their community’;

Standardnoun

a board measure = 1980 board feet

Standardnoun

the value behind the money in a monetary system

Standardnoun

an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support);

‘distance was marked by standards every mile’; ‘lamps supported on standards provided illumination’;

Standardnoun

any distinctive flag

Standardadjective

conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind;

‘windows of standard width’; ‘standard sizes’; ‘the standard fixtures’; ‘standard brands’; ‘standard operating procedure’;

Standardadjective

commonly used or supplied;

‘standard procedure’; ‘standard car equipment’;

Standardadjective

established or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence;

‘a standard reference work’;

Standardadjective

conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers;

‘standard English’; ‘received standard English is sometimes called the King's English’;

Standardadjective

regularly and widely used or sold;

‘a standard size’; ‘a stock item’;

Standardnoun

a level of quality or attainment

‘the government's ambition to raise standards in schools’; ‘their restaurant offers a high standard of service’;

Standardnoun

a required or agreed level of quality or attainment

‘half of the beaches fail to comply with European standards’; ‘their tap water was not up to standard’;

Standardnoun

(in elementary schools) a grade of proficiency tested by examination or the form or class preparing pupils for such a grade

‘she was still in boarding school and had twice repeated the same standard’;

Standardnoun

something used as a measure, norm, or model in comparative evaluations

‘the wages are low by today's standards’; ‘the system had become an industry standard’;

Standardnoun

principles of conduct informed by notions of honour and decency

‘a decline in moral standards’;

Standardnoun

a form of language that is widely accepted as the usual form

‘the idea of the standard is projected backwards on to states of language’;

Standardnoun

the prescribed weight of fine metal in gold or silver coins

‘the sterling standard for silver’;

Standardnoun

a system by which the value of a currency is defined in terms of gold or silver or both.

Standardnoun

a measure for timber, equivalent to 165 cu. ft (4.67 cubic metres).

Standardnoun

(especially with reference to jazz or blues) a tune or song of established popularity.

Standardnoun

a military or ceremonial flag carried on a pole or hoisted on a rope.

Standardnoun

used in names of newspapers

‘a report in the Evening Standard’;

Standardnoun

a tree or shrub that grows on an erect stem of full height.

Standardnoun

a shrub grafted on an erect stem and trained in tree form

‘a standard rose’;

Standardnoun

the large, frequently erect uppermost petal of a papilionaceous flower.

Standardnoun

one of the inner petals of an iris flower, frequently erect.

Standardnoun

an upright water or gas pipe.

Standardadjective

used or accepted as normal or average

‘it is standard practice in museums to register objects as they are acquired’; ‘the standard rate of income tax’;

Standardadjective

(of a size, measure, design, etc.) regularly used or produced; not special or exceptional

‘all these doors come in a range of standard sizes’;

Standardadjective

(of a work, repertoire, or writer) viewed as authoritative or of permanent value and so widely read or performed

‘his essays on the interpretation of reality became a standard text’;

Standardadjective

denoting or relating to the form of a language widely accepted as the usual correct form

‘speakers of standard English’;

Standardadjective

(of a tree or shrub) growing on an erect stem of full height

‘standard trees are useful for situations where immediate height is needed’;

Standardadjective

(of a shrub) grafted on an erect stem and trained in tree form

‘standard roses’;