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WktEN_sense_196604   

Instance of: lemon:LexicalSense
Property Value
lemon:definition Statement1
rdf:type lemon:SenseDefinition
lemon:value eng “A general guideline, rather than a strict rule; an approximate measure or means of reckoning based on experience or common knowledge.”
lemon:value eng “Michael Quinion lists the first documented use as 1692. Apocryphally, it has been claimed the term originally referred to the maximum thickness of a stick with which it was permissible for a man to beat his wife, but the earliest use in direct reference to domestic violence may be Del Martin?s 1976 book Battered Wives. Other suggested origins include the fact that the inch originated as the distance between the base of the thumbnail and the first joint, the practice of approximating the general direction of the wind by wetting the thumb then raising it in the air, and the rule of English Royal banquet plate setters using the distance of the thumb to equally space each plate from the table edge.”
uby:definitionType “intensionalDefinition”
uby:statementType “etymology”
lemon:example WktEN_SenseExample_35399     More...
uby:equivalent deu “Faustregel”
uby:equivalent fin “nyrkkisääntö”
uby:equivalent spa “regla general”
uby:equivalent fra “règle empirique”
uby:equivalent swe “tumregel”
uby:equivalent nld “vuistregel”
uby:equivalent mkd-latn “ópšto náčelo”
uby:equivalent hun “ökölszabály”
uby:equivalent isl “þumalputtaregla”
uby:equivalent mkd “општо начело”
uby:index “1”
uby:monolingualExternalRef MonolingualExternalRef1
rdf:type uby:MonolingualExternalRef
uby:externalReference “472030:0:1”
uby:externalSystem “Wiktionary sense key”

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Is lemon:sense of WktEN_lexicalEntry_135986     More...


 

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