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measure English

Meaning measure meaning

What does measure mean?
Definitions in simple English

measure Verb

— If you measure something, you calculate its size, mass, temperature, etc. using units like centimetres, kilograms, degrees, etc. Before clocks, time was measured by the movement of the moon and the sun. Ireland's smallest church measures 3.6 cm by 1.8 m.

measure Noun

— A measure is something that you do, usually to solve a problem. The police are taking all necessary measures to guarantee the safety of people. — A measure of something is a way to judge or assess it. — A measure of something is an amount of it.

measure

— verb determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of Measure the length of the wall — verb (= quantify) express as a number or measure or quantity Can you quantify your results? — verb have certain dimensions This table surfaces measures 20inches by 36 inches — verb (= evaluate, appraise) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional access all the factors when taking a risk — noun (= step) any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal the situation called for strong measures the police took steps to reduce crime — noun how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify — noun (= bill) a statute in draft before it becomes law they held a public hearing on the bill — noun (= measurement) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule the measurements were carefully done his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate — noun (= standard) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated the schools comply with federal standards they set the measure for all subsequent work — noun (= meter) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse — noun (= bar) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song — noun a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance — noun measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements

Synonyms measure synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as measure?

measure English » English

weigh survey size measurement quantity gauge dimension step standard degree amount estimate test scale extent meter limit criterion evaluate action weight number value magnitude calculate bar assess touchstone quantify measuring measure out examine valuate try rule proportion means count way volume metre mensuration judge indicator gage compare capacity appraise yardstick time

Topics measure topics

What do people use measure to talk about?
States Big

Measure
States

Big
States Big

Long
States Big Big area

Big container, volume
States

Quantity
Grammar General words

Do
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with cloth
States Quantity All

Some
States Time

Telling time

Conjugation measure conjugation

How do you conjugate measure?

measure · verb

Examples measure examples

How do I use measure in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Measure twice, cut once.
The ohm is the unit of measure for electrical resistance.
The second is the unit of measure for time.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Money is the measure of worth.
We are, in large measure, responsible for students' success in the entrance exam.
Can you measure the length?
No woman could measure up to his standard.
There is a second way to define the Gabriel-Roiter measure which may be more intuitive.
A ruler can measure something up to twelve inches in length.
Let's measure how tall you are.
We have to measure your intraocular pressure. Please open both eyes wide and look fixedly at this object here.
We want to measure your blood pressure.
The measure of love is to love without measure.
Measure the length of the stick with a ruler.
Please allow me to measure you.
Man is the measure of all things.
There are several ways to measure speed.
He has not become rich, but he had a certain measure of success.
Measure thrice, cut once.
Measure seven times, cut once.
Jail is a very harsh punitive measure.
We measure the depth of the river.

Movie subtitles

It's an obvious measure for a viceroy to take.
Ming China was the world's most sophisticated civilization by almost any measure.
Kepler will simply do one thing unbelievably well - measure the brightnesses of 1 00,000 stars over and over and over, looking for a few of those 1 00,000 stars that dim.
You'll have to make them in bigger sizes, but we can measure her once she's wearing her appliances.
Just a measure of caution, Mr Helius, - as well as this.
Also a measure of caution, Mr Turner?
Tape measure around the neck and pin-cushion on the hip.
And it'll earn a measure of reflected glory.. forhimthatfiredit and him that stopped it.
When I've brushed this fly off, I'll give you a dusting for good measure.
But I say unaffectedly that it would be a grief to me to be forced to take an extreme measure.
Friend, let us to our homeland give The noblest that our souls can measure.
I'd have hit them within an inch of their lives, but I'd no tape measure.
Measure your pourings carefully, boys, and keep those bars as uniform as possible.
The tailor has to measure you.
Kapteyn would measure the plates, while Gill continued ro collect new ones.
Our task was to measure the radio intensities at different frequencies.
Not only did they thwart my plan, but, for good measure, they also removed the Professor.
I think we better measure.
No, the measure's a foot too much.
How about your skeleton key just for good measure?
With this left over for good measure when he got there.
I don't measure in terms of seconds, but of years.
No parties. Theater's liable to be closed as a precautionary measure.
And how would you measure a man who would use a stick on a boy one third his size?
They measure the long march with their suffering by throwing themselves countless times to the ground and touching the ground with their foreheads.
We are talking about it just as a physical action measure. But the important thing is that these things are being mentioned over and over again.
Be sure to measure with the cup.
I told you to measure that water in a cup.
His Excellency and I thought it was a wise measure to plant only our very finest detectives as employees in the bank.
The Chief pulled a smart trick. Now when we pry into the vault, we'll get all the gold, and a heap of jewels for good measure.
I can take the measure of your cigarette case. and put my photograph in it. so that when we are not together you will be reminded of me.
But by what arithmetic am I to measure you?
You can repay me in some small measure For what you've done to me.
But she was in equal measure Stubborn, haughty, wilful, jealous.

News and current affairs

It is a measure of the seriousness of our problem that CO2 is already at 386 ppm, and is rising by two ppm each year.
That six-percentage-point difference in anticipated real yield is a measure of bond investors' extraordinary and irrational panic.
If they over-constrain the financial sector, risk may migrate outside the regulatory frontier, where it will be harder to measure and monitor.
Moderation, tolerance, and a capacity for reform in equal measure are the watchwords of today's German conservatism.
If this continues, a third party will emerge, committed to cleaning up American politics and restoring a measure of decency and fairness.
Productivity is a measure of output per hour worked.
But, then, military rule is only a temporary measure, or so we reason.
What makes the energy imposed as a tax substitution tax particularly attractive as a defense measure is that it leaves the welfare state intact while making Europe safer, greener, and richer.
Monitoring external balances can be an effective tool to measure future default risks, since sustained current-account deficits lead to a growth in net foreign debt.
By any sensible measure, Corzine's violation of the law was more serious than that of Tobias.
By what measure, and in relation to whom are they overpaid?
In time, strategic arms control treaties became the measure of the political relationship.
The expansion of military alliances, such as NATO, would be declared a threatening measure.
They must know that this measure will have as much effect on food inflation as rain dancing has on the weather.
The measure's second shortcoming, however, is that the spending reductions that it mandates are modest.
Today, that figure is 200,000, thanks in large measure to generous support from the United States (under its PEPFAR program) and the Global Fund in Geneva.
African civil society, whose mouthpiece is the press, cannot escape some measure of reproach for its failure to urge leaders to rescue fellow Africans.
Entire groups - Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - and their leaders owe their power to their willingness to kill Israelis, which has become the ultimate measure of political virtue.
A more radical measure, which some have advocated, would be direction intervene, with the state providing benefits for families with more girls.
Today, US authorities appear willing to contemplate any measure, no matter how inflationary, to insure that none of its major banks and investment houses fails.
Congress initially rejected the measure, but a dramatic 770-point drop in the stock market focused politicians' minds, bringing them back to the table - and to agreement.
The mandarins of northern Europe continue to measure out a drip-feed of support with coffee spoons.
September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point.
Liu's harsh prison sentence was meant as an exemplary measure, a stern warning to all other Chinese who might want to follow his path.
For some traits, we do not have to speculate - we can measure and compare on the basis of studies covering thousands of individuals over several generations.

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