Gouge vs Gauge - What's the difference?
gouge | gauge |
A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.
A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
* 1823 , ,
A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
An incising tool that cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc.
(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
(slang) Imposition; cheat; fraud.
(slang) An impostor; a cheat.
To make a mark or hole by scooping.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
* 1930 , ,
To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.
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.
In transitive terms the difference between gouge and gauge
is that gouge is to charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price while gauge is to chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.gouge
English
Noun
(en noun)- The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
- The "steeple" was a little cupola, reared on the very centre of the roof, on four tall pillars of pine that were fluted with a gouge , and loaded with mouldings.
- (Knight)
- (Raymond)
Verb
(goug)- Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
- He tried to clinch and gouge , but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out.
- They have no competition, so they tend to gouge their customers.
Synonyms
* (make a mark or hole by scooping) engrave * (charge an unreasonable price) swindleDerived terms
* gouge out * price gouging * regougeReferences
* English transitive verbs ----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.