measure | |
1. s. A prescribed quantity or extent. | |
2. s. (obsolete) Moderation, temperance. | |
3. s. A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.) | |
4. s. An (unspecified) portion or quantity. | |
a measure of salt | |
5. s. The act or result of measuring. | |
6. s. (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance. | |
7. s. A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion. | |
Honesty is the true measure of a man. | |
8. s. Any of various standard units of capacity. | |
The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn. | |
9. s. A unit of measurement. | |
10. s. The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.) | |
11. s. (now rare) The act or process of measuring. | |
12. s. A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements. | |
13. s. (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. s. (geology) A bed or stratum. | |
coal measures; lead measures | |
15. s. (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. s. Metrical rhythm. | |
17. s. (now archaic) A melody. | |
18. s. (now archaic) A dance. | |
19. s. (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. s. (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. s. A course of action. | |
22. s. (in plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans. | |
23. s. 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. | |