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measure
/ˈmɛʒ.ɚ/
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What does measure mean?
noun
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
More meanings (25)
noun
- A standard against which something can be judged; a way of measuring it; a criterion for it.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- A unit of measurement.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- A bed or stratum.
- A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
- Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A piece of legislation.
- (obsolete) Moderation, temperance.
- (archaic) The act or process of measuring.
- (archaic) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor.
- (archaic) A melody.
- (archaic) A dance.
verb
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement).
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
- To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
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IPA pronunciation
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See this word in context.
The improvements in the art of navigation have, as to the facility of communication, rendered distant nations, in a great measure, neighbors.
On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a great measure by her extreme confusion of manner.
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Unless it decides otherwise, the Commission shall consolidate two or more proceedings before it pursuant to this Article regarding the same measure.
Unfortunately nothing in his previous experiences helped him in the least to measure or guess at the feelings of these curious Octavians.
This word crime overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept.