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What is a yardstick?

What is a yardstick? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A measuring rod thirty-six inches long.
  2. (figuratively) A standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged.
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Next, using the yardstick as a guide, pencil as many straight lines as you need for your quote.
We had some sturdy white board behind a cabinet, so I brought that out for him, along with a compass, yardstick, pencil, glue, and Exacto knife.
The teacher rapped on the chalkboard with a yardstick, making some of the kids fall out of their desk comically.
It won't happen in a Sauber, of course, but at least the team have a perfect yardstick with which to measure their car.
Relying exclusively then on that particular line of form could be an unreliable yardstick.
There is in fact no yardstick by which one country can be judged to be playing fair in its trade relations with others.

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