NOUN | artifact | gauge, gage | 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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relation | gauge, standard of measurement | accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared | |
attribute | gauge | the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train | |
attribute | gauge | the thickness of wire | |
attribute | gauge, bore, caliber, calibre | diameter of a tube or gun barrel | |
VERB | cognition | gauge, estimate, approximate, guess, judge | judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) |
contact | gauge | rub to a uniform size | |
communication | gauge | determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation | |
change | gauge | measure precisely and against a standard | |
change | gauge | adapt to a specified measurement | |
change | gauge | mix in specific proportions |
Sounds | gey'jh | |
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Rhymes | age ... wage: 25 rhymes with eyjh... |
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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Synonym | standard of measurement | |
Broader | standard, criterion, measure, touchstone | A basis for comparison |
Spanish | medida estándar | |
Verbs | gauge | measure precisely and against a standard |
Meaning | The distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train. | |
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Narrower | broad gauge | A railroad track (or its width) broader than the standard 56.5 inches |
narrow gauge | A railroad track (or its width) narrower than the standard 56.5 inches | |
standard gauge | railroad track having the standard width of 56.5 inches | |
Broader | distance, length | size of the gap between two places |
Spanish | trocha |
Meaning | The thickness of wire. | |
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Broader | thickness | The dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width |
Spanish | calibre |
Meaning | diameter of a tube or gun barrel. | |
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Synonyms | bore, caliber, calibre | |
Broader | diameter, diam | The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference |
Spanish | calibre, diámetro, medida estándar | |
Catalan | calibre |
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 | |
Entailed by | punish, penalize, penalise | impose a penalty on |
Narrower | assess | Estimate the value of (property) for taxation |
give | Estimate the duration or outcome / outcome of something | |
guesstimate | Estimate based on a calculation | |
lowball, underestimate | make a deliberately low estimate | |
make | calculate as being | |
misgauge | gauge something incorrectly or improperly | |
place, put, set | Estimate | |
quantize, quantise | Approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values | |
reckon, count | take account of | |
truncate | Approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one | |
Broader | calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure | make a mathematical calculation or computation |
Spanish | calcular, echar, estimar, tasar | |
Catalan | apreciar, calcular, taxar |
Meaning | rub to a uniform size. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "gauge bricks" | |
Broader | rub | Move over something with pressure |
Meaning | Determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "gauge the wine barrels" | |
Broader | determine, find, find out, ascertain | Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment / experiment, survey, or study |
Nouns | gauge | a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. |
Meaning | Measure precisely and against a standard. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "the wire is gauged" | |
Broader | quantify, measure | Express as a number or measure or quantity |
Nouns | gauge | accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared |
Meaning | adapt to a specified measurement. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "gauge the instruments" | |
Broader | standardize, standardise | Cause to conform to standard or norm |
Meaning | mix in specific proportions. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
Example | "gauge plaster" | |
Broader | blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge | mix together different elements |
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