measure

• how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
• evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
• musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
• (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
• a statute in draft before it becomes law
• a basis for comparison
• any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
• the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
• measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals
• a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
• determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
• express as a number or measure or quantity
• have certain dimensions
• A standard of dimension
• An instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like
• The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard
• The contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured
• Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds
• Determined extent, not to be exceeded
• The quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying and selling
• Undefined quantity
• Regulated division of movement
• A regulated movement corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed
• The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats
• The space between two bars
• The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables
• A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder
• A step or definite part of a progressive course or policy
• The act of measuring
• Beds or strata
• To ascertain by use of a measuring instrument
• To serve as the measure of
• To pass throught or over in journeying, as if laying off and determining the distance
• To adjust by a rule or standard
• To allot or distribute by measure
• To make a measurement or measurements
• To result, or turn out, on measuring
• To be of a certain size or quantity, or to have a certain length, breadth, or thickness, or a certain capacity according to a standard measure

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