What is "measuring stick"

Usage examples of "measuring stick".

It is discipline, a measuring stick with which to see if there is honesty in you.

But, one by one, the bases came free and floated up, each with a chunk of pavement attached, to what would have been about the height of Jim's head, if he had been out there in the body to use himself as a measuring stick.

These Valdemarans, raised in cities, had no such measuring stick for maturity.

That I love you so much that I cannot imagine life without you, but that I am old enough to understand that loving someone that much isn't always the only measuring stick for making a life with them?

Taking Esau's measuring stick, the Terran measured height, width, and depth.

When the cart boy was finished with the measuring stick he signaled to Yustaffa.

Envies are gone, and the measuring stick is: Was he loved or was he hated?

There wasn't enough of it visible to help them get a bearing from it, either by using a measuring stick or by taking the angle of it.

It had never occurred to him that the primitive marriage of compass and measuring stick would have any practical use once he got to outer space.

One morning I was trying to help Selim with the photographyhe wasn't much better at it than Iwhile the unsifted rubble piled up and Emerson cursed Daoud for not holding the measuring stick level, when a soft voice addressed me.

And he finally knew that it was a place apart, a world in which the normal space-time knowledge and emotion had no place at all and a normal space-time being could have no tools or measuring stick by which he might reduce it to a frame of reference.