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measuring

(= 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

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The thermometer is an instrument for measuring temperature.
The carpenter is measuring the floor.
I like to eyeball my ingredients, mostly because I don't feel like washing my measuring cups over and over.
A ruler is a flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with graduations in units of measurement.
For nearly 40 years, NASA has been measuring how much sunshine powers our home planet.
We are measuring the depth of the river.

Movie subtitles

If they want to get into a jurisdictional dick-measuring contest, I'm all for it.
And we understand him well, how he comes o'er us with our wilder days, not measuring what use we made of them.
It's three eggs separated, two measuring cups of milk. a third of a cup of shortening.
Father had an appreciation for fine living, but he wasted it in this store emptying flour barrels and measuring cotton cloth.
Don't just sit there measuring me for a straitjacket!
When you start as late as I did. you find yourself measuring who and what you give your time to.
Just look at him measuring his strength with the youngsters, straining his flabby muscles to show off in front of that cute girl.
And one was in the water, his trousers rolled up, measuring the skeleton.. preparing to take off the head and the bill.
Measuring.
Measuring?
I might even spend a pleasant hour measuring the size of a cloud.
I saw one measuring yesterday.
Measuring equipment.
But measuring what?
And the idea was born. That he could collaborate With David Gill from the Cape Observatory to perform that huge task of measuring all the plates Gill had been collecting.
These denominations are used in measuring distances and.
The exact measuring of body and skull shapes was carried out by anthropologist Dr. Bruno Beger who studies human races in this area of scientific research.
Just doing a bit of measuring Lestrade.
Measuring the indentations on the ground I'd say the weight was around 3000 pounds.
How good it is to know a man who doesn't live his life measuring time in bits and pieces.
Don't just sit there measuring me for a straitjacket! Do something! Get on the phone!
What do you suppose he's doing that measuring for?
No wonder he was measuring.
Oh, just measuring you.
By measuring the grains and the direction of the ice crystals, by readings on a micro altimeter, by checking our gravity meter to tell us what the rock floor is like, we can calculate the rate of flow rather precisely.
But some are not measuring up to the necessary standards of discipline that I insist upon.
It means taking off the lock again, putting on the light, measuring the meal.
And we understand him well, now he comes o'er us with our wilder days, not measuring what use we made of them.
In Venice, there are 177 canals measuring 28 miles, and there are 156 bridges connecting 114 islands.
I'm measuring how much garland I'll need for the decorating.
You see, it's a way we have of measuring the speeds at which we fly.
The two of them are back at the house now measuring will the Deepfreeze fit in.
I can see I've been measuring you by the wrong yardstick.
Measuring the planet now, captain.
The planet below, the mass of which we are measuring, attained zero gravity.
Also, Braithwaite took his usual upside-down look at this lot and started measuring your chair size.
Measuring the silence, you will appear like the future itself.

News and current affairs

One should be careful, however, about reading too much into national opinion polls measuring the candidates' popular support.
Finally, I have learned that meticulous record-keeping and measuring results is critical to reaching more children.
Insurance companies face inherent difficulties in measuring risks, and they must tailor their policies creatively around the human foibles that limit uptake.
They are working hard to understand why, and to develop new approaches to measuring and monitoring risk, which is the main current concern of many banks.
Haldane rightly complained that banking regulation has evolved from a small number of very specific guidelines to mind-numbingly complicated statistical algorithms for measuring risk and capital adequacy.
Some analysts argue that military power is of such restricted utility that it is no longer the ultimate measuring rod.
Investors are interested in financial returns, so there is no problem about measuring distinct values - in the end it all comes down to money.
The most reliable data suggest that he was successful at reducing inequality; during his rule, Venezuela's Gini coefficient, a 100-point scale measuring income inequality, fell from 50 to 39, the biggest decline in Latin America.
Another major problem is measuring progress in a given country over time.
They could merely create an indexed unit of account to replace currency for measuring economic quantities and defining prices.
He also initiated the now common practice of measuring and comparing political and economic freedom across countries, helping to shape opinion in countries that are viewed as limiting freedom.
And measuring turns out to be much harder than one might expect.
In concrete terms, the ECB is measuring its policy's success today according to the expected inflation rate in 2020-2025.
Unfortunately, China's data are not nearly as reliable as those measuring a developed economy, which makes it difficult for anyone to be sure of what is happening.
Rather than simply looking at project inputs and outputs, the emphasis has turned towards measuring the overall impact of an operation.
This observation is now backed by neuroscience, which has identified how the brain develops over that period and has created a system for measuring learning gaps.
Measuring the quality of output is difficult, although The Times Higher Education Supplement attempts to do so every year.
Measuring INGOs' impact on policy outcomes is more an art than a science.
And yet, for the last 15 years, according to the conventional way of measuring global warming, the planet does not seem to have become any hotter.
The total amount of heat contained in oceans responds to changes in emissions, and is therefore a better metric for measuring such responses.
But the readings are unreliable and change constantly, prompting statisticians to think about different ways of measuring an economy's very different products.

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