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UK
/mˈɛʒɐ/
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[ US /ˈmɛʒɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈmɛʒɝ/ ]
NOUN
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musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song - how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
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any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
the police took steps to reduce crime
the situation called for strong measures -
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate
the measurements were carefully done - measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
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a statute in draft before it becomes law
they held a public hearing on the bill - a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
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a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
they set the measure for all subsequent work
the schools comply with federal standards - (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
VERB
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determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
Measure the length of the wall -
have certain dimensions
This table surfaces measures 20inches by 36 inches -
evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
access all the factors when taking a risk
I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional -
express as a number or measure or quantity
Can you quantify your results?
How To Use measure In A Sentence
- Management claimed the lockout was a temporary measure and that the plant would be reopened on May 9.
- Based upon analysis of duplicate samples, reproducibility was better than 3% of the measured concentration of each element.
- It would not be so bad if these tests were actually based on science or some objective measure but they are usually exercises in bureaucratic futility. Barack Obama Elected President of the United States | One Year Later...What's Changed?
- It's a bit unexpected not to include any measures of syntactic complexity - even something as simple as mean sentence length.
- If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
- AERONET is a global network of more than 100 sun photometers that measure the amount of sunlight absorbed by aerosols (fine particles in the air) at wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared.
- Please be assured that eHarmony uses robust security measures, including password hashing and data encryption, to protect our members' personal information. TIME.com: Top Stories
- Take the white of one egg, and measure just as much cold water; mix the two well, and stir stiff with confectioners 'sugar; add a little flavoring, vanilla, or almond, or pistache, and, for some candies, color with a tiny speck of fruit paste. A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl
- Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU. Archive 2009-12-01
- Practical measures such as quality control and testing are very important in the manufacturing process.
