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| Sounds | gey'jh |
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| Rhymes | age, assuage, backstage, and 22 more rhymes in eyjh... |
| Meaning | A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. |
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| Synonyms | gage |
| Broader | measuring instrument, measuring system, measuring device |
| Narrower | anemometer, wind gauge, wind gage; depth gauge, depth gage; dipstick; gasoline gauge, gasoline gage, gas gauge, gas gage; pressure gauge, pressure gage; rain gauge, rain gage, pluviometer, udometer; strain gauge, strain gage; surface gauge, surface gage, scribing block; vacuum gauge, vacuum gage; water gauge, water gage, water glass; wire gauge, wire gage |
| Verbs | gauge |
| Meaning | Accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared. |
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| Synonyms | standard of measurement |
| Broader | standard, criterion, measure, touchstone |
| Verbs | gauge |
| Meaning | The distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train. |
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| Broader | distance, length |
| Narrower | broad gauge; narrow gauge; standard gauge |
| Meaning | The thickness of wire. |
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| Broader | thickness |
| Meaning | Diameter of a tube or gun barrel. |
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| Synonyms | bore, caliber, calibre |
| Broader | diameter, diam |
| Meaning | Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time). |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s PP; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
| Synonyms | estimate, approximate, guess, judge |
| Broader | calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure |
| Narrower | quantize, quantise; misgauge; place, put, set; give; lowball, underestimate; assess; make; reckon, count; truncate; guesstimate |
| Entailed by | punish, penalize, penalise |
| Meaning | Rub to a uniform size. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "gauge bricks" |
| Broader | rub |
| Meaning | Determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "gauge the wine barrels" |
| Broader | determine, find, find out, ascertain |
| Nouns | gauge |
| Meaning | Measure precisely and against a standard. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "the wire is gauged" |
| Broader | quantify, measure |
| Nouns | gauge |
| Meaning | Adapt to a specified measurement. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "gauge the instruments" |
| Broader | standardize, standardise |
| Meaning | Mix in specific proportions. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "gauge plaster" |
| Broader | blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge |
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