Measure

(noun.) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify.

(noun.) any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal; 'the situation called for strong measures'; 'the police took steps to reduce crime'.

(noun.) a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance.

(noun.) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; 'the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song'.

(verb.) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of; 'Measure the length of the wall'.

(verb.) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of; 'I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional'; 'access all the factors when taking a risk'.

(verb.) have certain dimensions; 'This table surfaces measures 20inches by 36 inches'.

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• Sell her her waste, please, and give her good measure if you can make up your mind to do the liberal thing for once. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I signified my readiness to proceed, but our guides protested against such a measure. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• When a man cannot measure, and a great many others who cannot measure declare that he is four cubits high, can he help believing what they say? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• A thorough, determined dislike of me--a dislike which I cannot but attribute in some measure to jealousy. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• The measure of our self-consciousness will more or less determine whether we are to be the victims or the masters of change. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• One good deed or one bad one is no measure of a man's character: the Last Judgment let us hope will be no series of decisions as simple as that. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The palliative measures we may pass by quickly. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There were numerous dragon flies--one found in the Belgian coal-measures had a wing span of twenty-nine inches! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He spoke of the state of England; the necessary measures to be taken to ensure its security, and confirm its prosperity. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The error is in implying that we must adopt measures of subordination rather than of utilization to secure efficiency. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Yes or no, and no half measures! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• In 1639 Galileo, then old and blind, dictated to his son one of his books in which he discussed the isochronal properties of oscillating bodies, and their adaptation as time measures. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The colonists took counter-measures. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Rivers and pipes have their metres, so that now the velocity and volume of rivers and streams are measured and controlled, and floods prevented. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In effect, the voyage of the voice across the continent is instantaneous; if its speed should be accurately measured, a fifteenth of a second would probably be nearly exact. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The speed with which sounds travels through the air, or its velocity, was first measured by noting the interval (54. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Every event was measured by the emotions of the mind, not by its actual existence, for existence it had none. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• You can speak of her in that measured way, as simply a beautiful creature--only something to catch the eye. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I mean, as to the worth and value of her friend,' Mrs Lammle explained, in a measured voice, and with an emphasis on her last word. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• When the gas cock is closed, the mercury stands at the same level in both arms, but when the cock is opened, the gas whose pressure is being measured forces the mercury up the opposite arm. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• We treat it simply as a privation because we are measuring it by adulthood as a fixed standard. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Voltmeters (Fig. 236), or instruments for measuring voltage, are like ammeters except that a wire of very high resistance is in circuit with the movable coil. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• In measuring time we cannot rely on our inward impressions; we even criticize these impressions and spe ak of time as going slowly or quickly. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The thought of our own times has not out-stripped language; a want of Plato's 'art of measuring' is the rule cause of the disproportion between them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• One light-measuring scale depends upon the law that the intensity of illumination decreases with the square of the distance of the object from the light. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Those who spoke of justice as a cube, of virtue as an art of measuring (Prot. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• What was needed was some device to serve as an accurate speed governor--and the attainment of this essential device is the one thing on which accurate time measuring depends. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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