measure
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English mesure, from Old French mesure, from Latin mēnsūra (“a measure”), mētior (“to measure”, supine stem in mēns-) + -tūra. Largely displaced native Old English metan ("to measure" whence modern mete) and ġemet (“a measure”). See also -ure.
Base: -ure
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: measures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: measures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: measuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: measured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: measured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A prescribed quantity or extent.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished.
gloss: A prescribed quantity or extent.
pos: noun
examples: Mom's rage has no measure.
Full to the utmost measure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend.
but there is never found a foolish man who knows the measure of his stomach
They have gloried to this day, the tedious interminable big-screen replays of that golden summer irritating beyond measure.
gloss: A prescribed quantity or extent.
pos: noun
examples: It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.
gloss: The act or result of measuring.
pos: noun
examples: a measure of salt
gloss: The act or result of measuring.
pos: noun
examples: Honesty is the true measure of a man.
City were also the victors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as a measure of their progress against the 19-time champions.
gloss: The act or result of measuring.
pos: noun
examples: The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.
gloss: The act or result of measuring.
pos: noun
examples: The fragments shrank by increments of about three kilodaltons (a measure of molecular weight).
gloss: The act or result of measuring.
pos: noun
examples: The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
gloss: The act or result of measuring.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: The act or result of measuring.
pos: noun
gloss: The act or result of measuring.
pos: noun
examples: coal measures; lead measures
For many years the coal measures on the shores of Lough Allen were worked only in the most primitive fashion, and the coal was transported laboriously in the inevitable ass carts of the Irish peasant.
gloss: The act or result of measuring.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
gloss: The act or result of measuring.
pos: noun
gloss: Metrical rhythm.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: Metrical rhythm.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar,— / "Now tread we a measure!" said young Lochinvar.
They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.
gloss: Metrical rhythm.
pos: noun
examples: a poem in iambic measure
gloss: Metrical rhythm.
pos: noun
gloss: A course of action.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: The president said the measures involve a ban on all visitors to the country via all ports of entry who aren't residents or diplomats. El Salvadorans or residents who return to El Salvador will be quarantined for 30 days..
gloss: A course of action.
pos: noun
examples: The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
gloss: To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We measured the temperature with a thermometer.
You should measure the angle with a spirit level.
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
gloss: To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
pos: verb
tags: stative
examples: The window measured two square feet.
This park is the first large-scale public park in Taiwan. It is located on the border of Nantzu District in Kaohsiung City and Chiaotou village, Kaohsiung County and this park measures 95 hectares.
Youth worker Rob, 25, is 5’ 3” tall but measures 6’ 6” around his girth – just an inch less than the height of England’s beanpole striker Peter Crouch.
Weave with Azure until the woven cloth measures 31¼".
gloss: To estimate the unit size of something.
pos: verb
examples: I measure that at 10 centimetres.
gloss: To judge, value, or appraise.
pos: verb
examples: ſince they meaſure our deſerts so meane,
That in conceit beare Empires on our ſpeares,
Affecting thoughts coequall with the cloudes,
They ſhalbe kept our forced followers,
Til with their eies they view vs Emperours.
Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite / Thy power! what thought can measure thee?
gloss: To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
pos: verb
gloss: To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
pos: verb
tags: rare
examples: A true devoted pilgrim is not weary / To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.
"And for a very sensible reason; there never was but one like her; or, that is, I have always thought so until to-day," replied the tar, glancing toward Natalie; "for my old eyes have seen pretty much everything they have got in this little world. Ha! I should like to see the inch of land or water that my foot hasn't measured."
gloss: To adjust by a rule or standard.
pos: verb
examples: To secure a contented spirit, you must measure your desires by your fortune and condition, not your fortunes by your desires
gloss: To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
pos: verb
tags: often
examples: With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.
gloss: To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To measure one’s own activity, to make it conform to these standards of clearness, brevity and truth, is practically a very difficult matter.
In its opening portrait of Madame Caillaux, the rightist and anti-Caillaux Illustration asked its readers to imagine not a wronged victim or a female ruled by emotion but a careful player who measured her every word.
He measured his actions with a critical eye and was an exemplary citizen and householder. He was, the author explained, a simple, good man, and like all simple, good men he had an ideal […]
Derived words: above measure
beyond measure
biomeasure
bushel measure
butter measure
by any measure
countermeasure
dry measure
fluid measure
for good measure
gentleman's measure
half measure
half-measure
hypermeasure
in a measure
in equal measure
in no small measure
last full measure
liquid measure
long measure
made-to-measure
Mahler measure
man is the measure of all things
measurebate
measure for measure
measureless
measure of central tendency
measure of location
measure stick
measure word
poulter's measure
premeasure
short measure
strike measure
struck measure
tape measure
the measure of a man
time-bound measure
tread a measure
unit of measure
weight measure
weights and measures
Winchester measure
commeasure
immeasurate
measurage
dick-measuring contest
measurable
measurement
measure off
measure one's length
measure out
measurer
measure strength
measure swords
measure swords with
measure swords with someone
measure the drapes
measure twice and cut once
measure up
measuring cup
measuring cylinder
measuring jug
measuring rod
measuring spoon
measuring tape
measuring worm
mismeasure
outmeasure
overmeasure
remeasure
time-delay measuring instrument
time-delay measuring system
undermeasure
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: ме́ра
roman: mjéra
lang: Bulgarian
word: мя́рка
roman: mjárka
lang: Finnish
word: mitta
lang: Finnish
word: koko
lang: Hindi
word: मात्रा
roman: mātrā
lang: Russian
word: ме́ра
roman: méra
lang: Tocharian B
word: yarm
lang: Ukrainian
word: мі́ра
roman: míra
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ölçülmə
lang: Bashkir
word: үлсәү
roman: ülsəw
lang: Bulgarian
word: разме́р
roman: razmér
lang: Bulgarian
word: мярка
roman: mjarka
lang: Catalan
word: mesura
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 測量 /测量
roman: cèliáng
lang: Dutch
word: meten
lang: Dutch
word: meting
lang: Estonian
word: mõõtmine
lang: Finnish
word: mittaus
lang: Finnish
word: mittaaminen
lang: Finnish
word: mittaustulos
lang: German
word: Messung
lang: Italian
word: misurazione
lang: Italian
word: misura
lang: Japanese
word: 測定
roman: sokutei
lang: Japanese
word: 計量
roman: keiryō
lang: Korean
word: 측정
roman: cheukjeong
lang: Korean
word: 계량
roman: gyeryang
lang: Central Kurdish
word: پێواندن
roman: pêwandin
lang: Latvian
word: mērīšana
lang: Malagasy
word: refy
lang: Old English
word: ġemet
lang: Persian
word: اندازهگیری
roman: andâze-giri
lang: Persian
word: سنجش
roman: sanješ
lang: Polish
word: pomiar
lang: Portuguese
word: medição
lang: Romanian
word: măsurare
lang: Russian
word: измере́ние
roman: izmerénije
lang: Russian
word: заме́р
roman: zamér
lang: Spanish
word: medición
lang: Swedish
word: mätning
lang: Tocharian B
word: yarm
lang: Ukrainian
word: вимі́рювання
roman: vymírjuvannja
lang: Bulgarian
word: мярка
roman: mjarka
lang: Bulgarian
word: теглилка
roman: teglilka
lang: Bulgarian
word: линийка
roman: linijka
lang: Bulgarian
word: ролетка
roman: roletka
lang: Bulgarian
word: аршин
roman: aršin
lang: Dutch
word: regel
lang: Dutch
word: meetlat
lang: Dutch
word: lat
lang: Dutch
word: liniaal
lang: Finnish
word: mitta
lang: Finnish
word: mittatikku
lang: Finnish
word: mittanauha
lang: Finnish
word: mittari
lang: Finnish
word: viivoitin
lang: Hebrew
word: סרגל
roman: sargél
lang: Hindi
word: मापन
roman: māpan
lang: Irish
word: miosúr
lang: Italian
word: righello
lang: Italian
word: regolo
lang: Latin
word: pertica
lang: Latin
word: decempeda
lang: Māori
word: rūri
lang: Old English
word: ġemet
lang: Persian
word: خطکش
roman: xatkeš
lang: Polish
word: miarka
lang: Portuguese
word: medidor
lang: Romanian
word: riglă
lang: Romanian
word: linie
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tomhas
lang: Spanish
word: regla
lang: Finnish
word: lainsäädäntötoimenpide