standing operating procedure
standard operating procedure
SOP
standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
| standard schnauzer | a medium-sized schnauzer |
| standard poodle | a breed or medium-sized poodles |
| silver fox | red fox in the color phase when its pelt is tipped with white |
grizzly
grizzly bear
silvertip
silver-tip
Ursus horribilis
Ursus arctos horribilis | powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America |
silver hake
Merluccius bilinearis
whiting | found off Atlantic coast of North America |
coho
cohoe
coho salmon
blue jack
silver salmon
Oncorhynchus kisutch | small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes |
white perch
silver perch Morone americana | small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams |
silver perch mademoiselle
Bairdiella chrysoura | small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch, found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico |
silver whiting
Menticirrhus littoralis | a dull silvery whiting of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States |
silver jenny
Eucinostomus gula | silvery mojarra found along sandy shores of the western Atlantic |
Clark cell
Clark standard cell | a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force |
flatware
silver | silverware eating utensils |
mild silver protein
Argyrol | antiseptic consisting of a compound of protein and silver (trade name Argyrol) |
screen silver screen
projection screen | a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing |
silver medal
silver | a trophy made of silver (or having the appearance of silver) that is usually awarded for winning second place in a competition |
| silver mine | a mine where silver ore is dug |
| silver plate | a thin layer of silver deposited on something |
| silver plate | tableware that is plated with silver |
| silver protein | a colloid preparation of protein (albumin or gelatin) and silver oxide, used in aqueous solution as an antibacterial agent |
| standard banner | any distinctive flag |
| standard | an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support), distance was marked by standards every mile, lamps supported on standards provided illumination |
| standard cell | a primary cell used as a standard of electromotive force |
| standard gauge | railroad track having the standard width of . inches |
standard transmission
stick shift | a transmission that is operated manually with a gear lever and a clutch pedal |
ash grey
ash gray
silver
silver grey
silver gray | a light shade of grey |
| silver bullet | a simple guaranteed solution for a difficult problem, no silver bullet can make the world safe from terrorism |
| gold standard | a paragon of excellence, academic education is the gold standard against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged |
criterion
standard | the ideal in terms of which something can be judged, they live by the standards of their community |
accounting principle
accounting standard | a principle that governs current accounting practice and that is used as a reference to determine the appropriate treatment of complex transactions |
| standard deviation | the square root of the variance |
| silver screen | the film industry |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCII | (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies, a string of binary digits represents each character, used in most microcomputers |
American Standard Version
American Revised Version | a revised version of the King James Version |
| Revised Standard Version | a revision of the American Standard Version |
Standard and Poor's
Standard and Poor's Index | a broadly based stock market index |
| double standard | an ethical or moral code that applies more strictly to one group than to another |
| double standard of sexual behavior | a code that permits greater sexual freedom for men than for women (associated with the subordination of women) |
Silver Star Medal
Silver Star | a United States military decoration for gallantry in action |
standard generalized markup language
SGML | (computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents, a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted |
| non-standard speech | speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community |
standard
criterion
measure touchstone | a basis for comparison, a reference point against which other things can be evaluated, the schools comply with federal standards, they set the measure for all subsequent work |
procrustean standard
procrustean rule
procrustean bed | a standard that is enforced uniformly without regard to individuality |
silver lining
bright side | a consoling aspect of a difficult situation, every cloud has a silver lining, look on the bright side of it |
silver salmon
coho salmon
coho
cohoe | fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes |
Nevada
Silver State
Battle Born State
Sagebrush State
NV | a state in the southwestern United States |
| Silver City | a town in southwestern New Mexico |
color bearer
standard-bearer | the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle |
silversmith
silverworker
silver-worker | someone who makes or repairs articles of silver |
| standard-bearer | an outstanding leader of a political movement |