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Guideline   /gˈaɪdlˌaɪn/   Listen
Guideline

noun
1.
A light line that is used in lettering to help align the letters.
2.
A detailed plan or explanation to guide you in setting standards or determining a course of action.  Synonym: road map.
3.
A rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior.  Synonyms: guidepost, rule of thumb.





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"Guideline" Quotes from Famous Books



... to a guideline leading to the south polar lock and kicked off, satisfied that the lab was ready for the job of turning on the spin with which he would begin his three months tour of ...
— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond
... Electronic Theft (NET) Act again amended section 506 by amending subsection (a) in its entirety. Pub. L. No. 105-147, 111 Stat. 2678. That Act also directed the United States Sentencing Commission to "ensure that the applicable guideline range for a defendant convicted of a crime against intellectual property . . . is sufficiently stringent to deter such a crime" and to "ensure that the guidelines provide for consideration of the retail value and quantity of the items with respect to which ...
— Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, Circular 92 • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.
... image-format standards, and attendees could hear echoes of this unsettledness in the comments of various speakers. For example, Jean BARONAS reviewed the status of several formal standards moving through committees of experts; and Clifford LYNCH encouraged the use of a new guideline for transmitting document images on Internet. Testimony from participants in the National Agricultural Library's (NAL) Text Digitization Program and LC's American Memory project highlighted some of the challenges to the actual creation ...
— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly


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