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Gauge vs Gouging - What's the difference?

gauge | gouging |

As nouns the difference between gauge and gouging

is that gauge is a measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard while gouging is a mark produced by gouging.

As verbs the difference between gauge and gouging

is that gauge is to measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of while gouging is .

gauge

English

(wikipedia gauge)

Alternative forms

* gage

Noun

(en noun)
  • A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
  • * 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence . p. 2.
    • The record of philosophy vis-à-vis silence is generally dismal, as good a gauge as any to its overall failure.
  • * Burke
    • the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt
  • 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.
    • 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.
  • The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
    • (Totten)
  • 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.

    • 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 gauge

    Verb

    (gaug)
  • 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
    • You shall not gauge me / By what we do to-night.
  • (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.

    • See also

    * gage * gouge

    References

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    gouging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mark produced by gouging.
  • * 1943 , Bulletin of the Imperial Institute (volumes 41-42, page 230)
    • The damage consists in general of more or less deep cuts or gougings on the flesh side of the hide, often penetrating through the hide to the grain side.