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Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
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Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
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A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
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A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
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An act of measuring.
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An estimate.
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Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
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A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
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The distance between the rails of a railway.
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A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
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The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
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Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
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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.
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The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
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(plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
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That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
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A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
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(by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
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A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
Examples of gages in a Sentence
The car's primary gages are contained within a single round instrument binnacle - similar to the hot rods of the era.
This way the body stores up energy and with breakfast the following morning, biker's fuel gages should be on almost full.
Gages can be filled with a variety of fluids including glycerin, mineral oil and silicone oil.
In the lower seams mandrills were sometimes used as gages to measure the length for wooden props.
Suitable gages have been made, although I rely more heavily on my digital micrometer than the track gage.
The analog tachometer takes center stage and is surrounded by the electronic speedometer, temperature, oil and fuel gages.
The OM2 modules interface directly with sensors or analog signals such as strain gages, mV, thermocouples and RTD 's.
The company sells albums in several colors, along with packages of extra gages, clear page protectors, and gift boxes to store and present the scrapbooks.