[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rule \rule\, n.
   webster 1913 suppl.

   syn: regulation; law; precept; maxim; guide; canon; order;
        method; direction; control; government; sway; empire.
        1913 webster rule \rule\, v. t. imp.  p. p. ruled;
   p. pr.  vb. n. ruling. cf. of. riuler, ruiler, l.
   regulare. see rule, n., and cf. regulate.
   1. to control the will and actions of; to exercise authority
      or dominion over; to govern; to manage. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            a bishop then must be blameless; . . . one that
            ruleth well his own house, having his children in
            subjection.                           --1 tim. iii.
                                                  2, 4.
      1913 webster

   2. to control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion;
      to guide; -- used chiefly in the passive.
      1913 webster

            i think she will be ruled
            in all respects by me.                --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by
      universal or general consent, or by common practice.
      1913 webster

            that's are ruled case with the schoolmen.
                                                  --atterbury.
      1913 webster

   4. law to require or command by rule; to give as a
      direction or order of court.
      1913 webster

   5. to mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided
      by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means
      of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result;
      as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book.
      1913 webster

   ruled surface geom., any surface that may be described by
      a straight line moving according to a given law; -- called
      also a scroll.
      1913 webster
see also:
ruled ruling rule regulate ruled surface scroll 

Ruled Surface >> R Words
Ruled Surface, definition of term: Ruled Surface
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Ruled >> R Words
Ruled, definition of term: Ruled
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Surface >> S Words
Surface, definition of term: Surface
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Surface Tension >> S Words
Surface Tension, definition of term: Surface Tension
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Surface Area >> S Words
Surface Area, definition of term: Surface Area
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