standard in English:

Smaller classes mean a higher standard of education, and that's what we want for our kids.

standard procedure/practice

That's just standard practise, it's not like they're cutting corners.

The standard pitch A is used as referential pitch for tuning most of all instruments and is set to 440 Hertz.

I panicked when I read that they expected big protests in Riyadh today, but then my wife reassured me, saying that she had just bought two bottles of olive oil, ensuring our living standard for months, even if oil prices were to explode.

Justice in this country is a bit of a double standard: there is the justice of the poor and the justice of the rich.

First we have International English, which will probably become simpler than "standard."

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

The Kansai dialects are said to have a "sing-song" quality because their pitch accents differ from standard Japanese, which comes from the Tokyo dialect.

By averaging the squared difference between each value and the mean and finding the square root of the result, we can find the standard deviation.

The modern version, which is now popularly recognized in China as the standard qipao, was first developed in Shanghai after 1900.

The standard dictates these requirements for the position you want.

I don't want the premium internet option. The standard one will be just fine.

The regions with the fewest natural resources rely on importation to increase their standard of living.

The study provides a benchmark for future surveys

as a benchmark for

72 kilos is no longer the benchmark weight for avarage passenger

They improved their performance by benchmarking themselves against their main competitors’ standards.

I have to run a benchmark on my new computer.

Perhaps we should also take this as a benchmark for the electricity market.

We will use his performance as a benchmark for other students.

By the end of the school year, all third-grade students will need to meet this benchmark.

Is he able to benchmark it?

... in class and you benchmark yourself against other companies...

The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark discount rate to an 18-year low.

yardstick of comparision

Profit is the most important yardstick of success for any business.

... time using a constant yardstick?

I think Alan will become the yardstick against which all future boyfriends will be measured.