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measure
1. n. A prescribed quantity or extent.
2. n. (obsolete) Moderation, temperance.
3. n. A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
4. n. An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
a measure of salt
5. n. The act or result of measuring.
6. n. (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
7. n. A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
Honesty is the true measure of a man.
8. n. Any of various standard units of capacity.
The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.
9. n. A unit of measurement.
10. n. The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
11. n. (now rare) The act or process of measuring.
12. n. A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
13. n. (mathematics, now rare) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor.
the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
14. n. (geology) A bed or stratum.
coal measures; lead measures
15. n. (mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, proba
16. n. Metrical rhythm.
17. n. (now archaic) A melody.
18. n. (now archaic) A dance.
19. n. (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
a poem in iambic measure
20. n. (music) 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 com
21. n. A course of action.
22. n. (in plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
23. n. A piece of legislation.
24. v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
We measured the temperature with a thermometer. You should measure the angle with a spirit level.
25. v. To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
The window measured two square feet.
26. v. To estimate the unit size of something.
I measure that at 10 centimetres.
27. v. To judge, value, or appraise.
28. v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
29. v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
30. v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
31. v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.
by
1. prep. Near or next to.
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval.
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July.
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of.
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour.
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of.
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of.
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination.
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed.
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of.
Our stock is up by ten percent.
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches.
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to.
He cheated by his own admission.
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of.
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker.
I watched as it passed by.
16. adv. In the vicinity, near.
There was a shepherd close by.
The shop is hard by the High Street.
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
I'll stop by on my way home from work.
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
18. adv. Aside, away.
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary.
20. n. (card games) A pass
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye
walking
1. v. present participle of walk
2. adj. Incarnate as a human; living.
Elizabeth knows so many words that they call her the walking dictionary.
Phil's mother is a walking miracle after surviving that accident.
3. adj. Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
4. adj. Characterized by or suitable for walking.
a walking tour
good walking shoes
5. n. (gerund of walk).
walk
1. v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times
To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.
2. v. (intransitive, colloquial, legal) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.
3. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.
4. v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believ
5. v. To travel (a distance) by walking.
I walk two miles to school every day. The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.
6. v. To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
I walk the dog every morning. Will you walk me home?
7. v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
8. v. To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.
9. v. To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
10. v. To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
I walked the streets aimlessly. Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.
11. v. (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
12. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.
13. v. To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
14. v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
15. v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
16. v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
17. v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
18. v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
19. n. A trip made by walking.
I take a walk every morning
20. n. A distance walked.
It’s a long walk from my house to the library
21. n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
22. n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year
23. n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
24. n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
25. n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone
26. n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
27. n. (Caribbean, Guyana, Belize) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.Lise Winer (ed.), Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad and Tobago, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008, p.(n
28. n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
29. n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
30. n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
31. n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
32. n. (finance) A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).

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