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Gauge   /geɪdʒ/   Listen
Gauge

noun
1.
A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc..  Synonym: gage.
2.
Accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared.  Synonym: standard of measurement.
3.
The distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train.
4.
The thickness of wire.
5.
Diameter of a tube or gun barrel.  Synonyms: bore, caliber, calibre.
verb
(past & past part. gauged; pres. part. gauging)  (Written also gage)
1.
Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time).  Synonyms: approximate, estimate, guess, judge.
2.
Rub to a uniform size.
3.
Determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation.
4.
Measure precisely and against a standard.
5.
Adapt to a specified measurement.
6.
Mix in specific proportions.



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"Gauge" Quotes from Famous Books



... yet another test that we have not provided. A strain gauge to find out how much thrust a mosquito puts out. There's one in the physics lab. ...
— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond
... weight and without a jar bore him away to a secure hiding-place for healing and recovering. He who studies the great men of yesterday will find in the last analysis that gentleness has always been the test of gianthood, and fine considerateness the measure of manhood and the gauge of personal worth. No other hero moving through the crowds has ever been so courteously gentle, so sweetly considerate in his personal bearing as this Christ—who never failed to kindle in men ...
— The Investment of Influence - A Study of Social Sympathy and Service • Newell Dwight Hillis
... tell you, when the nine-piece orchestra—all home talent—strikes up the grand march and Chief Dobbs, with his wide-gauge mustache and vacuum-cleaned uniform, leads the company around the hall, every hero with the girl or wife of his heart on his arm and a full hundred couples of the mere laymen crowding in behind, in a long and many-looped ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch
... while they were discussing all manner of trifles before her, sometimes when they thought her sleeping, that in the intervals between sadder and weightier things her nice instincts were taking the gauge of all their characters unconsciously, but surely; how they might have been ashamed if they had known that while they were busy with all affairs in the universe but those which most nearly concerned them, the little ...
— Queechy, Volume I • Elizabeth Wetherell
... a part for Florine in a play of his which was about to be produced at the Gymnase. Then Nathan went to Florine and made capital with her out of the service done by the promise of a conditional engagement. Ambition turned Florine's head; she did not hesitate. She had had time to gauge Lousteau pretty thoroughly. Lousteau's courses were weakening his will, and here was Nathan with his ambitions in politics and literature, and energies strong as his cravings. Florine proposed to reappear on the stage with ...
— A Distinguished Provincial at Paris • Honore de Balzac


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