measure
措施,衡量,计量,衡量标准
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Definitions
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- : a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- : a system of measurement: liquid measure.
- : an instrument, as a graduated rod or a container of standard capacity, for measuring.
- : the extent, dimensions, quantity, etc., of something, ascertained especially by comparison with a standard: to take the measure of a thing.
- : the act or process of ascertaining the extent, dimensions, or quantity of something; measurement.
- : a definite or known quantity measured out: to drink a measure of wine.
- : any standard of comparison, estimation, or judgment.
- : a quantity, degree, or proportion: in large measure.
- : a moderate amount: to live with a measure of enjoyment.
- : a limit, or an extent or degree not to be exceeded: to know no measure.
- : reasonable bounds or limits: to know no measure.
- : a legislative bill or enactment: The senate passed the new measure.
- : Usually measures. actions or procedures intended as a means to an end: to take measures to avert suspicion.
- : a short rhythmical movement or arrangement, as in poetry or music.Compare meter.
- : a particular kind of such arrangement.
- : a metrical unit.
- : Music. the music contained between two bar lines; bar.an air or melody.a slow, dignified dance.
- : Printing. the width, measured in ems or picas, to which a column or page of printed matter is set.
- : measures, Geology. beds; strata.
- : Mathematics. an abstraction of the property of length; a set function assigning to each set of a collection of sets a value, usually having the properties of sigma finiteness and finite additivity, the functional value of the whole collection being greater than zero.
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meas·ured, meas·ur·ing.
- : to ascertain the extent, dimensions, quantity, capacity, etc., of, especially by comparison with a standard: to measure boundaries.
- : to mark off or deal out by way of measurement: to measure out two cups of flour.
- : to estimate the relative amount, value, etc., of, by comparison with some standard: to measure the importance of an issue.
- : to judge or appraise by comparison with something or someone else: to measure Corneille against Racine.
- : to serve as the measure of: Her sacrifices measure the degree of her love.
- : to adjust or proportion: to measure a portion to one's liking.
- : to bring into comparison or competition: to measure one's strength with another's.
- : to travel over; traverse: to measure a room with great strides.
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meas·ured, meas·ur·ing.
- : to take measurements.
- : to admit of measurement.
- : to be of a specified measure.
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- : 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.
Phrases
- measure up
- beyond measure
- for good measure
- in some measure
- made to measure
- take someone's measure
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
By some measures, such as the number of people on job retention schemes, the US looks like it’s on a different planet.
The District of Columbia, home to only around 700,000 residents, actually leads the way by that measure.
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.
Ukraine ranked first worldwide on Chainalysis’s Global Crypto Adoption Index, which includes measures of cryptocurrency value received, exchanged, and deposited.
It was vastly more expensive than had the City Council just placed a measure on the ballot.
Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
But the inability to measure progress in the ISIS campaign is widespread.
With that, there is no means to consistently measure progress.
There would, then, likely be significant police resistance to this measure.
A petition has been delivered in Nevada that will put a similar measure to the one in Washington on the ballot in 2016.
Yet if there is a measure of untruth in such pretty flatteries, one needs to be superhuman in order to condemn them harshly.
(p. 054) At this period it appears that tobacco was used as money, and as the measure of price and value.
Not only have its fundamental principles been fully vindicated but in most details the working of the measure has been successful.
The alternate hexameter and pentameter are, for most purposes, a more agreeable measure than the hexameter by itself.
The early recognition of pictured objects, of which certain animals have a measure, is often strikingly discerning.