| NOUN | communication | prescript, rule | prescribed guide for conduct or action |
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| Meaning | Prescribed guide for conduct or action. | |
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| Synonym | rule | |
| Part of | book, rule book | A collection of rules or prescribed standards / standards on the basis of which decisions are made |
| Narrower | GIGO | (computer science) a rule stating that the quality of the output / output is a function of the quality of the input |
| Miranda rule | The rule that police (when interrogating you after an arrest) are obliged to warn you that anything you say may be used as evidence and to read you your constitutional rights (the right to a lawyer and the right to remain silent until advised by a lawyer) | |
| bylaw | A rule adopted by an organization in order to regulate its own affairs and the behavior of its members | |
| canon | A rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy | |
| dictate | An authoritative rule | |
| etiquette | Rules governing socially acceptable behavior | |
| golden rule | Any important rule | |
| order, rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure | A body of rules followed by an assembly | |
| principle, precept | Rule of personal conduct | |
| protocol, communications protocol | (computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data | |
| regulation, ordinance | An authoritative rule | |
| rubric | An authoritative rule of conduct or procedure | |
| rule of evidence | (law) a rule of law whereby any alleged matter of fact that is submitted for investigation at a judicial trial is established or disproved | |
| Broader | direction, instruction | A message describing how something is to be done |
| Spanish | norma, prescripción, regla | |
| Catalan | norma, prescripció, regla | |
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