Measure vs Allowance - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between measure and allowance

is that measure is the quantity, size, weight, distance or capacity of a substance compared to a designated standard while allowance is the act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.

As verbs the difference between measure and allowance

is that measure is to ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard while allowance is to put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

measure

English

(wikipedia measure)

Noun

(en noun)

The quantity, size, weight, distance or capacity of a substance compared to a designated standard.

An (unspecified) quantity or capacity.

* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban'' (in ''The Guardian , 6 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/06/england-moldova-world-cup-qualifier-matchreport]

It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.

The precise designated distance between two objects or points.

The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated.

The tailor took my measure for a coat.

* Bible, Job xi. 9

The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

The act of measuring.

(Shakespeare)

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.

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(music) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats.

(dancing) A regulated movement, especially in a slow and stately dance, corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed.

(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

A rule, ruler or measuring stick.

A tactic, strategy or piece of legislation.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}

(mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.

(arithmetic, dated) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor.

the greatest common measure of two or more numbers

(geology) A bed or stratum.

coal measures'''; lead '''measures

An indicator; something used to assess some property.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport

, title= Man Utd 1-6 Man City , passage=City were also the victors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as a measure of their progress against the 19-time champions.}}

Synonyms

* (musical designation) bar * (precise designated distance) metric

Hyponyms

* (mathematics) positive measure, signed measure, complex measure, Borel measure, , complete measure, Lebesgue measure

Verb

(measur)

To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Towards the end of poverty , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

To estimate the unit size of something.

To judge, value, or appraise.

* (John Milton)

Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite / Thy power! what thought can measure thee?

To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.

(rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.

* (William Shakespeare)

A true devoted pilgrim is not weary / To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.

To adjust by a rule or standard.

* Jeremy Taylor

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires.

To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out'' or ''off .

* Bible, Matthew vii. 2

With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

* Addison

That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.

Derived terms

* measurement * measure stick * measure theory

External links

* * * 1000 English basic words

allowance

English

(wikipedia allowance)

Alternative forms

* allowaunce (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.

* Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --

Acknowledgment.

* The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --

That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.

* I can give the boy a handsome allowance. -- .

Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.

* After making the largest allowance for fraud. -- .

(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

A child's allowance; pocket money.

She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.

(minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.

(obsolete) approval; approbation

(Crabbe)

(obsolete) license; indulgence

(John Locke)

Synonyms

* (money) * (minting) (l), (l)

Verb

(allowanc)

To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.

Our provisions were allowanced .