measure / ˈmɛʒ ər /

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measure4 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  2. a system of measurement: liquid measure.
  3. an instrument, as a graduated rod or a container of standard capacity, for measuring.
v. 有主动词 verb

meas·ured, meas·ur·ing.

  1. to ascertain the extent, dimensions, quantity, capacity, etc., of, especially by comparison with a standard: to measure boundaries.
  2. to mark off or deal out by way of measurement: to measure out two cups of flour.
  3. to estimate the relative amount, value, etc., of, by comparison with some standard: to measure the importance of an issue.
v. 无主动词 verb

meas·ured, meas·ur·ing.

  1. to take measurements.
  2. to admit of measurement.
  3. to be of a specified measure.
v. 动词组 verb
  1. measure up, to reach a certain standard: The exhibition didn't measure up to last year's.to be capable or qualified: As an administrator, he couldn't quite measure up.

measure 近义词

n. 名词 noun

portion, scope

n. 名词 noun

standard, rule

n. 名词 noun

preventive or institutive action

n. 名词 noun

bill, law

measure 的近义词 7
measure 的反义词 2
n. 名词 noun

beat, rhythm

measure 的近义词 7
measure 的反义词 2
v. 动词 verb

calculate, judge

measure构成的短语

  • measure up
  • beyond measure
  • for good measure
  • in some measure
  • made to measure
  • take someone's measure

更多measure例句

  1. By some measures, such as the number of people on job retention schemes, the US looks like it’s on a different planet.
  2. The District of Columbia, home to only around 700,000 residents, actually leads the way by that measure.
  3. It’s a measure of how likely it is that I would by accident find a difference as big as the one I found here.
  4. Ukraine ranked first worldwide on Chainalysis’s Global Crypto Adoption Index, which includes measures of cryptocurrency value received, exchanged, and deposited.
  5. It was vastly more expensive than had the City Council just placed a measure on the ballot.
  6. Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
  7. But the inability to measure progress in the ISIS campaign is widespread.
  8. With that, there is no means to consistently measure progress.
  9. There would, then, likely be significant police resistance to this measure.
  10. A petition has been delivered in Nevada that will put a similar measure to the one in Washington on the ballot in 2016.
  11. Yet if there is a measure of untruth in such pretty flatteries, one needs to be superhuman in order to condemn them harshly.
  12. (p. 054) At this period it appears that tobacco was used as money, and as the measure of price and value.
  13. Not only have its fundamental principles been fully vindicated but in most details the working of the measure has been successful.
  14. The alternate hexameter and pentameter are, for most purposes, a more agreeable measure than the hexameter by itself.
  15. The early recognition of pictured objects, of which certain animals have a measure, is often strikingly discerning.