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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
standardize
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
test
▪ Students at schools such as Benjamin Franklin and Alhambra Traditional routinely score high on standardized tests.
▪ The bankers used economics as a sort of standardized test of general intelligence.
▪ Are the children assessed through standardized tests?
▪ However, a study of work-inhibited students' standardized achievement tests yielded dramatic information.
▪ By contrast, it is easier to confirm an academic skill weakness through the use of standardized achievement tests.
▪ In an attempt to know how well students are learning these basic skills, school systems administer standardized achievement tests.
▪ One has to wonder why we believe that just because kids pass a standardized test they know something.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At first there were several competing designs of electric plug-sockets, but these were standardized in the 1920s.
▪ The committee hopes to standardize school curriculum and teaching techniques.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Everyone does not need the same kind of lawyer, yet our lawyers are becoming standardized.
▪ He understands that the government can not efficiently standardize an industry that literally changes by the minute.
▪ Product management is developing a standardized suite of managed services that will be offered in the new data centers.
▪ Restaurants can back this up with a standardized recipe for the item and a nutritional analysis of the recipe.
▪ The bankers used economics as a sort of standardized test of general intelligence.
▪ There they were, those pretty young girls all in a row, wearing standardized bathing suits, glamour gowns and smiles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Standardize

Standardize \Stand"ard*ize\ (-[imac]z), v. t. (Chem.) To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
standardize

1857, a hybrid from standard (adj.) + -ize. Related: Standardized; standardizing. Earlier verb was simply standard (1690s).

Wiktionary
standardize

vb. (alternative spelling of standardise English)

WordNet
standardize
  1. v. cause to conform to standard or norm; "The weights and measures were standardized" [syn: standardise]

  2. evaluate by comparing with a standard [syn: standardise]

Usage examples of "standardize".

During the fourth week of school, Miss Perine administered the standardized tests, received the results, and then sent an urgent request home with Michelle for a parent-teacher conference.

Such capitalization preferences, found in the book version and inconsistently in the serialization, have been adopted and standardized in this edition.

This just makes clear once again the importance of having standardized procedures for verifying the identity of anybody requesting information, especially in a case like this where the caller was asking for help in obtaining access to confidential records.

The Sharonians, like the Union of Arcana itself, seemed to stick to fairly standardized designs for things like portal forts.

At this time, chemical notion had not yet been standardized, and Dalton used pictorial symbols of different kinds to represent the atoms of different elements.

The sulci and gyri are fairly standardized from brain to brain, and the more prominent ones are named and mapped.

I also have a large group of workers able to run the standardized routines to translate all interfaces to Neptunian formats.

Finally, it makes no more sense to purchase a standardized or prepackaged food storage program than it does to buy your weekly bag of groceries selected and bagged by a supermarket clerk, without regard to your personal preferences.

Rather than studying natural free behaviour, I have been experimenting with the possibility of developing standardized languages for the analysis of any natural transaction.

Collectively, these fountains invented and standardized numerous treats, including milk shakes and banana splits.

Teachers should be rewarded on the basis of performance -especially student performance on standardized, nationwide tests, and improvements in student performance on such tests from one year to the next.

These new restaurant chains featured straightforward menus, very quick service, uniformity, standardized food, and reasonable prices.

They were accompanied by the rise of trade associations, publishers organizations, literary agents, author contracts, royalties agreements, mass marketing, and standardized copyrights.

To achieve more precise control over the response and quantify it, the researchers immobilized the slug by pinning it to a stage and standardizing the tactile stimulus by using a jet of water delivered with a water-pick.

Cheap but serviceable, I can repair it with standardized parts most anywhere if need be, and nobody pays much attention to rustbuckets like that.