Gauge vs Calculate - What's the difference?
gauge | calculate | Synonyms |
A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
* 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence . p. 2.
* Burke
An act of measuring.
Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
(rail transport) The distance between the rails of a railway.
(mathematics, analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
(knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
To estimate.
To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
* Shakespeare
(textile) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
(mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
(mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
(intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
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, title= To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
* (William Shakespeare)
To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
* Archbishop Tillotson
As verbs the difference between gauge and calculate
is that gauge is to measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of while calculate is to determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.As a noun gauge
is a measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.gauge
English
(wikipedia gauge)Alternative forms
* gageNoun
(en noun)- The record of philosophy vis-à-vis silence is generally dismal, as good a gauge as any to its overall failure.
- the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt
- A vessel has the weather gauge''' of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee '''gauge when on the lee side of it.
- (Totten)
Derived terms
* broad gauge * Coulomb gauge * gauge boson * gauge field * gauge theory * lattice gauge theory * Lorentz gauge * narrow gauge * quantum gauge theory * rail gauge * rain gauge * standard gauge * Weyl gaugeVerb
(gaug)- You shall not gauge me / By what we do to-night.
See also
* gage * gougeReferences
* ----calculate
English
Verb
(calculat)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated , might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
- A cunning man did calculate my birth.
- [Religion] is calculated for our benefit.