Representative and Standard

Representative

Representative adjective - Having or showing the qualities associated with the members of a particular group or kind.
Usage example: a representative example of what that talented chef can do with even simple ingredients

Standard and representative are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Standard" instead the word "Representative" as an adjective or a noun.

Standard

Standard adjective - Having or showing the qualities associated with the members of a particular group or kind.
Usage example: he's pretty much your standard high-school jock

Representative and standard are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Representative" instead the word "Standard" as an adjective or a noun.

How words are described

good good representative good standard
female female representative female standard
better better representative better standard
ordinary ordinary representative ordinary standard
Other adjectives: current, legal, actual, male, main, personal, new, major, former, different.

Both words in one sentence

  • Gender-Equal Ensemble In a family scenario, this will often take the form of having a father, a mother, a son and a daughter, so that each standard role in a nuclear family has a representative.
  • Lethally Stupid T'Pol (the Vulcan representative and science officer) says that standard Vulcan policy for examining a new planet is to perform surveys from orbit for a week before flying down.
  • Easter Egg Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, when the standard FBI warning changes to the ELE screen, there is an intercut shot of three actual eggs, representative of the DVD's three hidden Easter eggs.
    Source: Easter Egg
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