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measured

If something is measured, it has been determined by measurement. He ran over a measured mile. Something that is measured is deliberate but restrained. He argued in measured tones. Rhythmically written in meter; metrical.

measured

the rhythmic arrangement of syllables (= mensural) having notes of fixed rhythmic value (= deliberate) unhurried and with care and dignity walking at the same measured pace with all deliberate speed (= calculated) carefully thought out in advance a calculated insult with measured irony

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Simple sentences

Have you measured it?
Harvard scientists have measured the amount of male hormone in the saliva of 58 single and married men with or without children.
We measured the depth of the river.
It can't be measured in terms of money.
Our city's transport problems are minor when measured against capitals like London and New York.
Gross national product is a nation's total output of goods and services as measured in monetary value.
The value of a good education cannot be measured in terms of money.
The distance between stars is measured in light years.
Many European kitchens have scales because dry ingredients are measured by weight there, unlike in America, where they are measured by volume.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
He measured the length of the bed.
The value of a good education cannot be measured in money.
Electric current is measured in amps.
I'd like to be measured for a new suit.
The temperature is measured by a thermometer.

Movie subtitles

Look at what I got measured for.
Though I doubt if any suffering can be measured in dollars.
The strength of a sword is measured by the arm that wields it!
In this neck of the woods a man's age is measured by the number of split seconds he can take off his draw like this. See how I filed off that front sight?
And don't forget, the success of our evacuation is measured by the smallness of the military casualties, not the naval ones.
Who hath measured the ground?
Measured Parkins for a suit.
Would it be possible to be measured for a suit this afternoon?
Sweet lady, love is not measured in terms of time only in ecstasy.
Powder's automatically measured as you pour from the flask.
My lord Duke, Victors are not always measured By the number slain.
All the distances are measured from that point.
The world is more complex than that, and good must not be measured on a scale as small as Mr. Land's brash heroics.
The smallest measured nine feet in body length.
We measured the radio emission as a function of velocity and determined from those the positions of hydrogen clouds in the Galaxy. Not only in the equatorial plane, but also above and below.
Yeah, we'd like to get measured right away.
We came here to be measured for a suit of clothes.
Do? Have him measured for a suit of clothes directly?
You measured right up to him this afternoon.
Leaving behind the tropics and subtropics we then enter the third part of our mission, the so-called Palearctic, which very much equates with our measured latitudes.
Lifelong devotion is measured after the fact.
I went back afterwards and measured it.
The world is more complex than that, and good must not be measured on a scale as small as Mr Land's brash heroics.
I measured the footprints in the snow.
Especially since the scientific total life expectancy for a mesic atom, up to now, measured in laboratories, had been one two-millionth of a second.
I have a rich man's disease. Normally my blood pressure is very normal, but my blood pressure tends to be elevated when it's getting measured.
I should've known a guy has to be measured for one.
Go up and get measured for costumes.
Maybe he doesn't want to get measured for his polo mallet.
I myself I have measured the distance that is.
The wall remnants were measured and registered, and piece by piece, Kronborg yielded its secret.
Successful attacks were measured in hundreds of yards and paid for in lives by hundreds of thousands.
They've got me measured for the fall guy. Now, just a minute.
Why a particle of sunlight can't even be seen or measured.
People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ.
A garden of reassuring order, with clipped hedges and geometric paths, where we stroll with measured steps, side by side, day after day, at arm's length, never closer. Be quiet.

News and current affairs

Pride, dignity, and self-confidence do not figure in economic theory: they cannot be measured.
Measured against a disappointing past, even Germany is currently experiencing an economic boom.
The result was increased US spending and the descent of measured household savings into negative territory.
For example, despite widespread violent crime, Mexico and South Africa have high levels of innovation (measured by patent filing and trademark registration).
Exports are cheaper, and revenues from exports (measured in pesos) are up dramatically.
Hurricanes are measured according to three dimensions: frequency, intensity, and duration.
Two major factors limit China's soft power, as measured by recent international polls.
A RAND study projects that by 2015, China's military expenditure will be more than six times higher than Japan's, and its accumulated military capital stock will be roughly five times higher (measured at purchasing power parity).
Moreover, coordinating mechanisms should be - to the extent possible - objectives-based processes measured against international commitments and best practices.
Traditionally, society has measured business competence by a person's intellectual ability to examine problems broadly and deeply.
But in countries like Italy, Spain, and Greece, the length of a bankruptcy proceeding is measured in years, not months or weeks, as in the US.
After all, debt (which is measured in currency units) and GDP (which is measured in currency units per unit of time) yields a ratio in units of pure time.
As such, it must be reliable, predictable, and directed towards development needs in ways that can be monitored, measured, and evaluated.
No one can determine how much of America's productivity gains in recent years have resulted from squeezing human capital, because such things are not measured.
Instead of looking for changes in genes that take many generations to accumulate until they can be detected, we have measured natural selection directly.
We measured natural selection operating on women in Framingham, Massachusetts, where a long-term medical study on heart disease produced the data that we used.
In five other cases, scientists found women in developed countries maturing earlier, in two of them at smaller size (in the other three cases, size was not measured).
Second, we measured the effects of natural selection by noting that women who were shorter and first gave birth when younger had more children.
But, while the effects of biology on the traits that we measured are relatively small for humans living in complex modern cultures, even small effects, when repeated consistently, will accumulate.
The real cost of the crisis is not measured by the profit and loss statement of any central bank - or by whether or not the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), run by the Treasury Department, made or lost money on its various activities.
The private gains can be measured most directly in the form of executive compensation.
So far, the Chinese leadership has adopted a measured approach to inflation.
In the end he should be measured by what he has accomplished rather than by personal foibles or flatness of style.
This approach presupposes that bank assets and exposures can be accurately measured.
In today's crisis lies tomorrow's opportunity - economic opportunity, measured in jobs and growth.

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