Gauged vs Measure - What's the difference?
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(gauge)
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.
The quantity, size, weight, distance or capacity of a substance compared to a designated standard.
An (unspecified) quantity or capacity.
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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.
* Bible, Job xi. 9
The act of measuring.
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 rule, ruler or measuring stick.
A tactic, strategy or piece of legislation.
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, title= (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.
(geology) A bed or stratum.
An indicator; something used to assess some property.
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, title= To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
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, title= To estimate the unit size of something.
To judge, value, or appraise.
* (John Milton)
To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
(rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
* (William Shakespeare)
To adjust by a rule or standard.
* Jeremy Taylor
To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out'' or ''off .
* Bible, Matthew vii. 2
* Addison
As verbs the difference between gauged and measure
is that gauged is (gauge) while measure is to ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.As a noun measure is
the quantity, size, weight, distance or capacity of a substance compared to a designated standard.gauged
English
Verb
(head)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
* ----measure
English
(wikipedia measure)Noun
(en noun)- 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 tailor took my measure for a coat.
- The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
- (Shakespeare)
- a poem in iambic measure
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.}}
- the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
- coal measures'''; lead '''measures
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) metricHyponyms
* (mathematics) positive measure, signed measure, complex measure, Borel measure, , complete measure, Lebesgue measureVerb
(measur)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.}}
- Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite / Thy power! what thought can measure thee?
- A true devoted pilgrim is not weary / To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.
- To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires.
- With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
- That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.