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Gauge vs Mila - What's the difference?

gauge | mila |

As a noun gauge

is a measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.

As a verb gauge

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

As a proper noun mila is

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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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    mila

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1992 Sally Armstrong, Mila , Macmillan Canada, ISBN 077159156X, page 59:
    • At the end of the evening?and remember it was a sad occasion?Auntie Fanny says, 'Shoiley, do me a favour, ask Myla'?she never called her Mila ?'for the recipe.'
  • * 1996 , The Music of Dolphins , Scholastic Inc.(1998), ISBN 0590897985, page 52:
    • My name is Mila'. '''Mila''' is the name others gave me. The ones who found me. ' Mila is miracle.
  • * 2003 Dina Mehta, Mila in Love , Penguin Books, ISBN 0143030191, page 4:
    • And she persisted in calling me Mila after I had decreed that people should now use my full name: Sharmila.
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