Measure vs Reform - What's the difference?
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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
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct.
* Jonathan Swift
To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a person of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
(intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.
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As nouns the difference between measure and reform
is that measure is the quantity, size, weight, distance or capacity of a substance compared to a designated standard while reform is reform.As a verb measure
is to ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.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.
Derived terms
* measurement * measure stick * measure theoryExternal links
* * * 1000 English basic wordsreform
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* reformation * amendment * rectification * correctionDerived terms
* monetary reformVerb
(en verb)- to reform''' a profligate man; to '''reform corrupt manners or morals
- The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
- This product contains reformed meat.
- The regiment reformed after surviving the first attack.
- The pop group reformed for one final tour.
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