# ruled

Pronunciation: say "ROOLD" /ɹuːld/

## Verb

1. Past tense and past participle of rule. — simple past and past participle of rule
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of rule. Use it for controlling or deciding something that already happened.
   - _The dynasty ruled the region until the revolution swept it away._
   - _The colony was ruled from across the ocean for two hundred years._

## Adjective

2. Having lines printed or drawn across the surface, as on writing paper.
   - Simple: Having lines printed across the surface, the way a writing notebook does.
   - _He preferred ruled stationery for letters because his handwriting wandered otherwise._
   - _The accountant's ledger came with ruled columns for entering figures._
3. Describing a surface such that through every point on it there passes a straight line lying entirely within the surface.
   - Simple: Made of straight lines, so that a straight line lies on the surface at every point.
   - _A hyperboloid of one sheet is ruled, with straight lines passing through each of its points._
   - _Engineers exploit ruled forms to build doubly curved roofs from straight members._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/ruled (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).