gauge
noun
1. a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
Similar word(s): gage
Definition categories: man–made
2. accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
Definition categories: link, criterion, measure, standard, touchstone
3. the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
Definition categories: attribute, distance, length
4. the thickness of wire
Definition categories: attribute, thickness
5. diameter of a tube or gun barrel
Similar word(s): bore, caliber, calibre
Definition categories: attribute, diam, diameter
Sentences with gauge as a noun:
- A vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.
verb
1. judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
Similar word(s): overestimate, underestimate, approximate, estimate, guess, judge
Definition categories: cognition, calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon
2. rub to a uniform size
- gauge bricks
Definition categories: contact, rub
3. determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
- gauge the wine barrels
Definition categories: communication, ascertain, determine, find
4. measure precisely and against a standard
- the wire is gauged
Definition categories: change, measure, quantify
5. adapt to a specified measurement
- gauge the instruments
Definition categories: change, standardise, standardize
6. mix in specific proportions
- gauge plaster
Definition categories: change, blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix