MPage 137
- English Word Measure Definition A regulated movement corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed; but, especially, a slow and stately dance, like the minuet.
- English Word Measure Definition The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats.
- English Word Measure Definition The space between two bars.
- English Word Measure Definition The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure.
- English Word Measure Definition A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; as in the phrases, the common measure, the greatest common measure, etc., of two or more numbers.
- English Word Measure Definition A step or definite part of a progressive course or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political measures; prudent measures; an inefficient measure.
- English Word Measure Definition The act of measuring; measurement.
- English Word Measure Definition Beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead measures.
- English Word Measure Definition To ascertain by use of a measuring instrument; to compute or ascertain the extent, quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by a certain rule or standard; to take the dimensions of; hence, to estimate; to judge of; to value; to appraise.
- English Word Measure Definition To serve as the measure of; as, the thermometer measures changes of temperature.
- English Word Measure Definition To pass throught or over in journeying, as if laying off and determining the distance.
- English Word Measure Definition To adjust by a rule or standard.
- English Word Measure Definition To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; -- often with out or off.
- English Word Measure Definition To make a measurement or measurements.
- English Word Measure Definition To result, or turn out, on measuring; as, the grain measures well; the pieces measure unequally.
- English Word Measure Definition 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; as, cloth measures three fourths of a yard; a tree measures three feet in diameter.
- English Word Measured Definition of Measure
- English Word Measured Definition Regulated or determined by a standard; hence, equal; uniform; graduated; limited; moderated; as, he walked with measured steps; he expressed himself in no measured terms.
- English Word Measureless Definition Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable.
- English Word Measurement Definition The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.