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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ruler
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
weak leader/ruler/king etc
▪ a weak and ineffective president
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
colonial
▪ There was never much doubt about which language the colonial rulers would use in local administration.
▪ After years of persecution by colonial rulers, Orisha worshipers only recently had their religion officially recognized by the government.
military
▪ But, at least in the short term, a new military ruler looks to be the likely outcome.
▪ He also instructed those around him in these arts, and was far from being just a powerful military ruler.
▪ Unlike past military rulers, General Musharraf has neither imposed martial law nor suppressed fundamental rights.
▪ Mr Obasanjo was running the country on that occasion too, but as a military ruler.
▪ But it also raises questions for the increasingly unpopular military rulers.
▪ He defeated the military ruler, Gen.
new
▪ The Gallo-Romans quickly reached accommodation with the new rulers, despite differences in culture and religion.
▪ The new ruler of the gods owed Prometheus much for helping him conquer the other Titans, but he forgot his debt.
▪ These problems reveal the contradictions within the newly independent society, particularly the contradictions between the new rulers and the masses.
▪ Milan challenged the new ruler and for its troubles was razed to the ground in 1162.
▪ But, at least in the short term, a new military ruler looks to be the likely outcome.
▪ The new rulers and the newly formed political societies of the post-Renaissance period lacked political experience.
▪ A poor response from Valencia was easily overcome and within the city there was much murmuring against the new ruler.
secular
▪ Both Luther and Calvin accepted that secular rulers had no jurisdiction over spiritual matters.
▪ It did not imitate the variability of the secular rulers who thought only of temporal gain.
▪ But this quasi-sacerdotal character was no longer an important aid to the power of secular rulers.
▪ It was also in the interest of secular rulers that Catholic orthodoxy was maintained.
▪ The response of the secular rulers depended on a wide variety of factors, but mostly it was conditioned by political considerations.
■ VERB
become
▪ Generally, however, they must have been concerned to persuade him to become an amenable ruler.
▪ By 1146 Henry had become ruler of Saxony.
rule
▪ While there were improvements in standard in a number of areas, Britain's control emphasised the distance between rulers and ruled.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ King Priam was a firm, but just ruler.
▪ Ramses II, ruler of Egypt in 13,000 BC
▪ Several countries have condemned Nigeria's military rulers for human rights abuses.
▪ Some regimes are governed by hereditary rulers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the accounts I have examined agree, more or less, that Zeus is the ruler of the cosmos.
▪ Both rulers and ruled may believe that some issues are not a matter for public concern.
▪ Despite his arrogance and cruelty towards opponents, he had been a remarkably enlightened and often liberal and generous ruler.
▪ Mr Obasanjo was running the country on that occasion too, but as a military ruler.
▪ No earthly ruler dared interfere with the civil life of his church and kingdom.
▪ The rulers promptly monopolized it for their own regalia and as a medium for bestowing honour and obligations on their retainers.
▪ They had been imprisoned there by a long dead ruler, Llud.
▪ When his worship spread to a town where there was already a divine ruler the two were slowly fused into one.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ruler

Ruler \Rul"er\ (r[udd]l"[~e]r), n.

  1. One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor.

    And he made him ruler over all the land.
    --Gen. xli. 43.

    A prince and ruler of the land.
    --Shak.

  2. A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 (a) .

    Parallel ruler. See under Parallel.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ruler

"one who rules," late 14c., agent noun from rule (v.). Meaning "instrument used for making straight lines" is c.1400 (compare rule (n.)).

Wiktionary
ruler

n. 1 A (usually rigid), flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with graduations in units of measurement; a rule; a straightedge with markings; a measure. 2 A person who rules or governs; a person who exercises dominion or controlling power over others.

WordNet
ruler
  1. n. measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths [syn: rule]

  2. a person who rules or commands; "swayer of the universe" [syn: swayer]

Wikipedia
Ruler

A ruler, sometimes called a rule or line gauge, is an instrument used in geometry, technical drawing, printing, engineering and building to measure distances or to rule straight lines. The ruler is a straightedge which may also contain calibrated lines to measure distances.

Ruler (horse)

Ruler (1777 – 4 February 1806) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. He won three of his five starts, including the two-mile St. Leger Stakes in 1780. He was bred and owned by William Bethell.

Usage examples of "ruler".

The Empress might have enough support among the nobles to keep a precarious hold on her throne, but she had made no overtures to the common folk, and they were solidly opposed to the idea of an Aberrant ruler.

It was the difference between the manners of Tewksbury and Tuscumbia, between being brought up amid the cruelties of the almshouse and the affectionate warmth of an upper-middle-class Southern home, between an Irish cultural heritage of black pessimism and hot hatred of patronizing rulers and the genial, self-confident outlook of a class that despite the Civil War was still master.

The Deck Officer, now crouched low on the deck, his forward leg bent, his aft leg ruler straight, quickly waved his wand forward in a big arc, the wand finally touching the deck, then coming up to point straight ahead down the deck into the wind.

Petersburg as to the meaning of that invasion, and it received the answer that Russia felt compelled to come to the rescue of the Ameer at his request, for the Afghan ruler was anxious for his independence, in view of the measures which were taken by England.

However, as Ament suggested, perhaps a truly superior ruler would rise above such a temptation, no matter how justifiable, and pursue other options before resorting to something as vast and terrible as Morning Star.

The first twelve articles are devoted to the pope, the annates, the appointment of foreigners to German benefices, the appeal of cases to Rome, the asserted authority of the papacy over bishops, the emperor, and other rulers.

Zarth Arn, the man whose body I now inhabit, is son of the greatest ruler in the galaxy?

Although the King of Prussia had been the first of all the coalition to assail republican France, yet, in the spring of this year, he concluded a separate treaty with its democratic rulers.

However, as the Ottoman rulers became more legitimate in the eyes of their subjects, through piety, good deeds, and good government, their swords eventually moved into the background and were replaced by a type of rule by negotiation, which, generally speaking, gave the Ottoman authoritarian tradition in the Middle East a softer edge.

The more popular support the Ottoman rulers garnered through the ages, the more they sought to sustain their authoritarianism without resort to force, but instead by building bridges to key sectors of the societies they ruled, by allowing others to share in the spoils and by never totally vanquishing their opponents, but instead always leaving them a way out so that they might one day be turned into friends.

Blood Guard will be interested to know that the insignificant roundhead whom he sees before him is only secretary to this distinguished traveller, the clear-thinking Ave Mar, son of the Ruler of Danjab.

I would not be the ruler, look ye, of such a community, for the hope of becoming Avoyer of Berne itself.

The Mightiest of All Men, the Excellent Ruler of the universe, who had reduced all hostility to nothing, who had won lustrous glory, ascended the golden baldachin resting on the backs of two elephants also covered in golden cloth.

More rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered here today, to try the two apostles, than had ever attended the sessions on John the Baptist or Jesus.

Therefore without any injustice rulers can have the children of Jews baptized, as well as those of other slaves who are unbelievers.