uniform
Syllables: u·ni·formUK/ˈjuːnɪfɔːm//ˈjunɪˌfɔɹm/
uniform adjective: unvarying; all the same. Also the alternative letter-case form of Uniform from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
Adjective
uniform (comparative more uniform, superlative most uniform)
- Unvarying; all the same.
- "Chocolate and cream," the standard colours of G.W.R. rolling stock for 21 years, are now being replaced by an all-over utility coating of reddish-brown. This is the third time that a uniform brown has been adopted as the standard livery of G.W.R. carriages.1943 March and April, “G.W.R. Rolling Stock Colours”, in Railway Magazine, page 106
- Some exponents of these ideas went so far as to maintain that the perfect society required all its members to be completely uniform in all respects-not only their rights and duties, but their way of life and thought, food and clothing, and even (according to Dom Deschamps and others) their physical...1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...
- Synonyms:
- regular, stable, invariable, of a piece, consistent, equable, equal, even, even-keeled, monotonous
- Antonyms:
- diverse
- Consistent; conforming to one standard.
- The only doubt is, about the manner of their unity; how far Churches are bound to be uniform in their Ceremonies, and what way they ought to take for that purpose.1593, Richard Hooker, “Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity”, in The Ecclesiastical Polity and Other Works of Richard Hooker, published 1830, page 313
- Synonyms:
- compliant, congruent, commensurate, compatible, conformable, conformant, congruous, consistent, in line, in step
- with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence
- Composed of a single macromolecular species.
- (of a polyhedron) That is isogonal and whose faces are regular polygons; (of an n-dimensional (n>3) polytope) that is isogonal and whose bounding (n-1)-dimensional facets are uniform polytopes.
Noun
uniform (plural uniforms)
- A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group, company, prison inmates, etc.
- The Hooverette [housedress] can be worn as a dress or as an apron.
This is the latest in uniforms, madam, according to Vogue.1932, Elmer Wheeler, Tested Selling Sentences (the Language of the Brain): Master Book - ‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.[…]’.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- The Hooverette [housedress] can be worn as a dress or as an apron.
- A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
- Skeletor held the gun against Speedo’s head, held Speedo between himself and the cops who stood, motionless and futile, where they’d stopped. Robinson, Lindfors, Carter, three uniforms and I watched helpless as Skeletor, dragging Speedy with him, inched out the gate, started backing down the hill.1996, S. J. Rozan, Concourse, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 265
- Four men flew out of it, three uniforms and one in what appeared to be an English riding outfit—boots, whip, the whole nine yards. […] He called out, “I’m the superintendent of police.”2001, Christine Wiltz, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld, Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 113
- In OpenGL, a global shader variable whose value does not change between rendering calls, serving as a parameter.
- Hence, uniforms of the same name in a vertex and fragment program will be the same uniform variable. Uniforms cannot be written to in a shader. This is sensible because an array of processors may be sharing the same resources […]2009, Randi J. Rost, Bill Licea-Kane, Dan Ginsburg, OpenGL Shading Language
Verb
uniform (third-person singular simple present uniforms, present participle uniforming, simple past and past participle uniformed)
- To clothe in a uniform.
- You can't erect an army by uniforming and drilling a few hundred thousand clerks and farmers.1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige
Also used as
uniform is also the alternative letter-case form of Uniform from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
uniform meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
uniform in Hindi
- distinctive outfit as a means of identifying members of a group
- वर्दी vardī, यूनिफ़ॉर्म yūnifŏrm
uniform in Tamil
- distinctive outfit as a means of identifying members of a group
- சீருடை cīruṭai
uniform in Urdu
- distinctive outfit as a means of identifying members of a group
- وَرْدی vardī, یُونِفارْم yūnifārm, یُونِیفارْم yūnīfārm
uniform in Bengali
- distinctive outfit as a means of identifying members of a group
- উর্দি urdi, ইউনিফর্ম iuniphormo
More languagesFewer languages
- uniform in Gujarati
- ગણવેશ m du gaṇveś
- uniform in Pashto
- وردي wǝrdi, يونيفورم yuniform
- uniform in Tagalog
- maligo, sanyusin
- uniform in Arabic
- زَيّ zayy, زِي zī, زَيّ مُوَحَّد zayy muwaḥḥad
- uniform in Malay
- seragam, uniform, pakaian seragam, temandang
- uniform in Indonesian
- seragam
- uniform in Thai
- เครื่องแบบ krʉ̂ʉang-bɛ̀ɛp, ยูนิฟอร์ม yuu-ní-fɔɔm
- uniform in Vietnamese
- đồng phục
- uniform in Myanmar
- ယူနီဖောင်း yunihpaung:, တူညီဝတ်စုံ tu-nyiwatcum
Examples of uniform in a sentence
- The sight of him in his new uniform made us all proud.
- Following Jackie Robinson's success, his uniform number, 42, became a retired number across all major league teams.
- We'd better put nametags in the children's school uniforms, in case they get mixed up.
Synonyms of uniform
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Antonyms
Forms of uniform
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more uniform |
| superlative | most uniform |
| Noun | |
| plural | uniforms |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | uniforms |
| present participle | uniforming |
| past participle | uniformed |
| past | uniformed |
Origin of uniform
Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin uniformis.
Words formed from uniform
- disuniform
- hyperuniform
- non-uniform
- non-uniform day
- overuniform
- postuniform
- quasiuniform
- semiuniform
- subuniform
- uniform act
- uniformally
- uniform antshrike
- uniform case
- uniform crake
- uniform distribution
- uniformise
- uniformism
- uniformist
- uniformity
- uniformization
- uniformize
- uniformly
- uniform metric
- uniformness
- uniform resource identifier
- uniform space
- ununiform
- full dress uniform
- mess uniform
- school uniform
- tango uniform
- uniformless
- uniform queen
Phrases with uniform
- uniform acts
- uniform cases
- uniform crakes
- uniform spaces
- uniform metrics
- uniform antshrikes
- uniform continuity
- uniform convergence
- uniform convergences
- uniform distributions
- Uniform Resource Locator
- Uniform Resource Locators
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Questions about uniform
- What does uniform mean?
- Uniform means unvarying; all the same.
- What is uniform in Hindi?
- Uniform in Hindi is वर्दी (vardī), यूनिफ़ॉर्म (yūnifŏrm). See Uniform meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is uniform?
- Uniform can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce uniform?
- Uniform is pronounced /ˈjunɪˌfɔɹm/ (US).
Words near uniform in the dictionary
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