Meaning & use
standardised
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“standardised” is a form of “standardize”. See that entry for the full set of meanings.
Meanings
adjectivebefore a noun
Made to follow one fixed pattern, size or set of rules, so that every item or case is treated or produced in the same way.
Grammar: Usually sits before a noun: a standardised form, not a form that is standardised.
Patterns
- a standardised test
- standardised procedures
All students sit the same standardised test at the end of the year.
The company introduced a standardised form for expense claims.
Standardised packaging makes the products easier to stack and ship.
verbtransitive
Past tense and past participle of standardise: changed something so that it matches a common set of rules or measurements.
Grammar: Takes an object: they standardised the process.
Patterns
- standardised something across something
- something was standardised
The two hospitals standardised their record-keeping last spring.
Railway gauges were standardised across the country in the nineteenth century.
We standardised the spelling of names before merging the lists.
Word forms
| base form | standardise |
|---|---|
| third person singular | standardises |
| -ing form | standardising |
Common combinations
- standardised test
- The standardised test covers reading and math.
- standardised procedure
- Nurses follow a standardised procedure when a patient arrives.
- standardised format
- Please send your data in a standardised format.
- fully standardised
- The system is not yet fully standardised across offices.
- highly standardised
- Fast-food menus are highly standardised from one branch to the next.
Synonyms and how they differ
- uniform
- Uniform describes things that look or behave alike, while standardised suggests that rules were set deliberately to make them alike.
- regulated
- Regulated stresses control by authority, whereas standardised stresses matching one agreed pattern.
- normalised
- Normalised often means made to seem normal or adjusted to a norm in data, while standardised means made to match a fixed specification.
- consistent
- Consistent says only that things do not vary, without implying that a fixed standard was imposed.
Opposites
Word family
- standard noun
- an agreed level, rule or measure
- standardisation noun
- the process of making things match a standard
- standardise verb
- to make things match one pattern
- substandard adjective
- below the required quality
Commonly confused: standardised or standardized?
standardised vs standardized
This is the American spelling of the same word; both are correct, but use one spelling consistently within a text.
Practice
Which sentence uses standardised correctly as an adjective?
Choose one answer.
Standardised comes before the noun test as an adjective. The other options break normal English word order or grammar.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “standardised”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.