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As verbs the difference between gage and evaluate

is that gage is while evaluate is to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.

gage

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) gage, from later (etyl) or early (etyl) gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from (etyl) , from (etyl) (whence English wed). Doublet of wage, from the same origin through the Old Northern French variant wage. See also mortgage.

Verb

(gag)
  • (obsolete) To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
  • * Shakespeare
    • A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king.
  • (archaic) To wager, to bet.
  • * Ford
    • This feast, I'll gage my life, / Is but a plot to train you to your ruin.
  • To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Great debts / Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, / Hath left me gaged .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
  • * 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe :
  • *:“But it is enough that I challenge the trial by combat — there lies my gage .” She took her embroidered glove from her hand, and flung it down before the Grand Master with an air of mingled simplicity and dignity…
  • * 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom , Oxford 2003, page 166:
    • The gage was down for a duel that would split the Democratic party and ensure the election of a Republican president in 1860.
  • (obsolete) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
  • *1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
  • *:[I]t seemed to create a sort of material link between the Princess and himself, and at the end of three months it almost appeared to him, not that the exquisite book was an intended present from his own hand, but that it had been placed in that hand by the most remarkable woman in Europe.... [T]he superior piece of work he had done after seeing her last, in the immediate heat of his emotion, turned into a kind of proof and gage , as if a ghost, in vanishing from sight, had left a palpable relic.

    • Etymology 2

    See (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Verb

    (gag)
  • (to measure)
    • Usage notes
    The spelling gage'' is encountered primarily in American English, but even there it is less common than the spelling ''gauge .

    Etymology 3

    Named after the Gage family of England, who imported the greengage from France.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A subspecies of plum, .
    • Derived terms
    * blue gage * frost gage * golden gage * greengage

    evaluate

    English

    Verb

    (evaluat)
  • to draw conclusions from examining; to assess
    • It will take several years to evaluate the material gathered in the survey.
  • (mathematics) to compute or determine the value of (an expression)
    • Evaluate this polynomial.
  • To return or have a specific value.
  • * 2006 , Lev Sabinin, Larissa Sbitneva, Ivan Shestakov, Non-Associative Algebra and Its Applications , CRC Press (ISBN 9780824726690), page 201
    • Since element (15.1) evaluates' to an element of the center in any alternative algebra, (15.1) has to ' evaluate to a scalar multiple of the identity element of the Cayley-Dickson algebra.
  • * 2007 , James E. Gentle, Matrix Algebra: Theory, Computations, and Applications in Statistics , Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9780387708720), page 165
    • In one type of such an integral, the integrand is only the probability density function, and the integral evaluates to a probability, which of course is a scalar.

    Derived terms

    * evaluator * evaluatee

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