What does measure mean?

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[n] any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal(the situation called for strong measures the police took steps to reduce crime)[v] determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of(Measure the length of the wall)[n] how much there is or how many there are of

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measure - The Free Dictionary

[n] any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
(the situation called for strong measures the police took steps to reduce crime)

[v] determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
(Measure the length of the wall)

[n] how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify

[v] express as a number or measure or quantity
(Can you quantify your results?)

[n] a statute in draft before it becomes law
(they held a public hearing on the bill)

[v] have certain dimensions
(This table surfaces measures 20inches by 36 inches)

[n] the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
(the measurements were carefully done his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate)

[v] 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)

[n] a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
(the schools comply with federal standards they set the measure for all subsequent work)

[n] (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

[n] musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
(the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song)

[n] measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements

[n] a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance

Other vocabulary

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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.