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measuring

/mezh-er/US // ˈmɛʒ ər //UK // (ˈmɛʒə) //

测量,衡量,计量,测定

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    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.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    meas·ured, meas·ur·ing.

    • : to take measurements.
    • : to admit of measurement.
    • : to be of a specified measure.
  1. 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.

Phrases

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

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounweighing
Synonyms
aligning统一的,统一,统一口径,统一行动averaging均匀化,平均数,平均值,平均水平calculating计算方法,计算,计算的,计算能力calibrating校准,校正,标定,校准化checking检查,核对,核查,检验gauging测量,衡量,计量,测定grading评级,评语,评定leveling流平性,平坦化,均匀化,平整性mapping绘图,制图,测绘,映射rhyming押韵的,合辙的,押韵,韵律scaling缩放,缩放比例,缩放性,缩放率surveying测量,测绘,测量学,调查

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.

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