gaugeverb [ T ]
US also gage uk/ɡeɪdʒ/us/ɡeɪdʒ/gauge verb [ T ] (MEASURE)
to calculate an amount, especially by using a measuring device:
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Calculations & calculating
- aggregate
- algorithm
- amount
- amount to sth
- average
- come to sth
- commutative
- computational
- compute
- equate
- figure
- get/have your sums right/wrong idiom
- grand total
- guesstimate
- instantaneous velocity
- miscalculate
- projected
- put
- put sth at sth
- result
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gauge verb [ T ] (JUDGE)
to make a judgment about something, usually people's feelings:
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Analysing and evaluating
- analyse
- analyser
- analyst
- analytical
- analyze
- critical
- go through sth
- have the measure of sb/sth idiom
- inspect
- inspection
- interpretive
- measure
- proof
- sell sb/yourself/sth short idiom
- set great, little, etc. store by sth idiom
- sift
- sit
- sit in judgment on/over sb idiom
- size sth/sb up
- survey
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gaugenoun
US also gage uk/ɡeɪdʒ/us/ɡeɪdʒ/gauge noun (MEASURE)
[ C ] a device for measuring the amount or size of something:
[ C ] a device used to measure the pressure of the air in a tyre:
[ C ] specialized engineering the distance between the rails (= the two long metal bars attached to the ground) on a railway line:
[ C ] specialized engineering the thickness of something, especially metal or wire
[ C ] specialized US UK bore engineering the space inside a pipe or tube, or the diameter of (= measurement across) this space:
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Measuring, weighing, & counting devices
- calculator
- calipers
- dipstick
- gradation
- hydrograph
- instrument
- light meter
- manometer
- meter
- micrometer
- potometer
- rangefinder
- ruler
- scope
- sensor
- spirit level
- tachometer
- tape measure
- theodolite
- weighbridge
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gauge noun (JUDGING)
[ S ] a way of judging or showing something, especially how successful or popular something is:
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Measuring & weighing
- cost-of-living index
- decibel
- life-size
- measure sb/sth up
- measure sth out
- measurement
- mmHg
- mmol
- pace
- pinhole
- plumb
- point
- proof
- quantifiable
- record
- short
- sound
- system
- timer
- tolerance
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