Standardized - English meaning

verb

Take in and understand fully (information or ideas).

Usage examples:

Marie tried to assimilate the week's events

verb

To take in and make a part of your basic knowledge something learned from others, so that you can use it as your own

Usage examples:

[ t ] we hoped the students would assimilate the information contained in the lecture., [ t ] once …

verb

To become part of a group, country, society, etc., or to make someone or something become part of a group, country, society, etc.

Usage examples:

The european union should remain flexible enough to assimilate more countries quickly., you shouldn…

idiom

To force someone or something to be similar or of the same standard as someone or something else

Usage examples:

Teachers say the raises would bring their salaries into line with other public workers.

verb

Make the same in quantity, size, or degree throughout a place or group.

Usage examples:

The purpose is to equalize the workload among tutors

verb

To make laws or treatment the same for all people or companies in a group or place

Usage examples:

The latest proposals would implement appropriate measures to equalize the conditions of global trad…

verb

To make things or people equal

Usage examples:

They are putting pressure on the government to equalize state pension ages between men and women.

verb

Subject (milk) to a process in which the fat droplets are emulsified and the cream does not separate.

Usage examples:

The milk is pasteurized and homogenized

verb

To treat milk so that the cream is mixed into other parts of the liquid

Usage examples:

The dairy industry homogenizes milk to prevent the cream from rising., tv has homogenized the cultu…

verb

To make a lot of a product, using machinery in a factory

verb

To produce large numbers of goods, often by using machines in a factory

Usage examples:

They now mass produce cars to meet a wider market., buying bulk works for simple, mass-produced pur…

verb

Arrange in an orderly or systematic manner.

Usage examples:

Methodize the london collections and there will be no need for a special tier of administrators

verb

Bring or return to a normal or standard condition or state.

Usage examples:

The two countries normalized diplomatic relations in 1995

verb

To return to the usual or generally accepted situation

Usage examples:

[ t ] they hope to normalize relations with the us.

noun

A permanent unit of an army typically commanded by a lieutenant colonel and divided into several companies, squadrons, or batteries and often into two battalions.

Usage examples:

The royal highland regiment

verb

Organize according to a strict system or pattern.

Usage examples:

Every aspect of their life is strictly regimented

verb

Control or maintain the rate or speed of (a machine or process) so that it operates properly.

Usage examples:

A hormone which regulates metabolism

verb

To control an activity or process by rules or a system

Usage examples:

A computer system regulates production., [ + question word ] their parents regulate how much tv the…

verb

To check that the activities of a business or organization are legal and follow official rules or laws

Usage examples:

Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce., the agency regulates the financial service…

noun

A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

Usage examples:

The stereotype of the woman as the carer

verb

View or represent as a stereotype.

Usage examples:

The city is too easily stereotyped as an industrial wasteland

noun

An idea that is used to describe a particular type of person or thing, or a person or thing thought to represent such an idea

Usage examples:

All jobs can be made to fit stereotypes, but accountants are particularly easy targets., that unfor…

verb

Arrange according to an organized system; make systematic.

Usage examples:

Galen set about systematizing medical thought

verb

Arrange or carry out according to an orderly plan