Saturday, August 1, 2015

YARDSTICK

WORD: YARDSTICK

MEANING:
1. A graduated measuring stick one yard in length.
2. A test, standard, or model used in measurement, comparison, or judgment.
3. measure, index, guage

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Shahid Kapoor laments that Bollywood applies the yardstick of film's success at box office results to consider one as a good actor.
2. IQ tests are no more used as a yardstick to measure students intelligence.
3. On what kind of yardstick is he basing his judgment?

PRONOUNCE:
yard·stick - यार्ड्स्टिक

LINK: YARDSTICK

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