Word Finder - gauge

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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.

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To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.

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To estimate.

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To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.

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To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.

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To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.

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To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.

You can gauge the risk.

His tone was unassuming, but his gaze was intent, as if he were trying to gauge if she recognized him or not.

Narrow gauge and normal gauge railways of local interest covered 3905 m.

You also want to gauge your level of activity.

The gauge throughout is 2 ft.

Cutting heavy gauge wire with your good pair of wire cutters may dull the blades.

Always check your gauge by knitting several rows.

If you spy a pattern you like and you can get gauge with a cotton yarn, go ahead and try it.

Gauge is not important for this project.

Simple quizzes to gauge grocery shopping habits, emotional eating tendencies, types of dieters, a chocoholic predisposition, and more.

It doesn't take much to gauge what people are talking about or "Tweeting" about your brand.

More advanced athletes can use this data to gauge the effectiveness of their training strategies, and beginners or those with health conditions are safe to have a canary that warns them to back off if they exceed a safe level of exertion.

While you sleep, it keeps track of your heart rate and can help you gauge how restful your night was.

Pre-planning will help you gauge your success.

To help you gauge if you are ready, the first DVD of the program, which consists of 10 DVDs total, contains the Insanity Fit Test.

Unfortunately, there's no easy way to gauge whether or not you're experiencing an increase in testosterone with exercise.

Use a thermometer with an alarm to gauge this exact point.

You could interpret the price you're offered for a policy as a gauge of your health.

To gauge the amount of money you will be paying for life insurance, you may want to look into obtaining a set rate that never changes as long you keep the same coverage level.

The body of the still is provided with one or more openings at different heights to serve for the discharge of the residue in the still, and sometimes with a glass gauge to record the quantity of matter in the still.

The standard gauge in South Africa is 3 ft., 6 in.

Another line (179 m.) on a two-foot gauge runs N.W.

If any observations exist upon the drainage area itself they are commonly only from a single gauge, and this gauge, unless the area is very level, may give results widely different from the mean fall on the whole area.

The site helps with information regarding the size needles or hook you need, amount of yarn, difficulty level, finished measurements, gauge and helpful tips.

Just be sure you check the gauge and that the yarn you use is compatible with the pattern.

Instead, they'll identify a yarn weight and hook size to get the right gauge.

They also provide you with a means to gauge portion size, which is probably one of the most difficult aspects of healthy eating.

This information can be helpful for planning your workouts and giving you a means to gauge your progress.

Visit store sale racks often, to gauge when certain lingerie pieces go on sale.

Intimo pajamas are made of 100% heavy gauge silk that can be machine washed on cold.

His profound knowledge of popular assemblies enabled him, alone among contemporary sovereigns, accurately to gauge from the first the scope and bearing of the French Revolution.

From Kalabas Kraal on the Cape TownClanwilliam railway, a narrow gauge line runs via Hopefield to Hoetjes Bay-126 m.

Thus on the average, gauge C recorded 20% more than gauge D only ft.

Such examples show the importance of placing any rain-gauge, so far as possible, upon a plane surface of the earth - horizontal, or so inclined that, if produced, especially in the direction of prevailing winds, it will cut the mean levels of the area whose mean rainfall is intended to be represented by that gauge.

Then, in order to connect with these the effect of the rightand left-hand slopes, there should be at least one gauge on each side about the middle height, and approximatel y in a line perpendicular to the axis of the valley passing through the central gauge.

The gauge in the bottom of the valley farthest from the source will in a wide valley generally record the least rainfall, and one of those on the south-west side, the highest.

Each gauge should have for io or 15 yds.

The earliest records of such gauges should be carefully examined, and if any apparently anomalous result is obtained, the cause should be traced, and when not found in the gauge itself, or in its treatment, other gauges should be used to check it.

The central gauge is useful for correcting and checking the others, but in such a perfectly simple case as the straight valley above assumed it may be omitted in calculating the results, and if the other four gauges are properly placed, the arithmetical mean of their results will probably not differ widely from the true mean for the valley.

Thus in any period of 50 years the driest year (not at an individual gauge but upon such an area) will be about 63% of the mean for the 50 years.

The gauge has a plain dial, marked off to indications given by the application of standard tons and cwts.; it could probably be read to about 2% of the load weighed.

At this place was a gauge for measuring the discharge of the river.

Farther south a narrow gauge (60 cm.) railway III m.

In northern Angola the railway (metre gauge) from Loanda was carried to Malanje (375 m.) and was bought in July 1918 by the Portuguese Government.

The steepness of the Lebanon railway, and the break of gauge at Rayak, the junction for Aleppo, have prevented the diversion of much of the trade of North Syria to Beirut.

For strategical reasons the Spanish gauge was made different from that of France; and military considerations long postponed the construction of any railway across the Pyrenees.

Second only to the compass in its value to the sailor is Thomson's sounding apparatus, whereby soundings can be taken in 100 fathoms by a ship steaming at 16 knots; and by the employment of piano-wire of a breaking strength of 140 tons per square inch and an iron sinker weighing only 34 lb, with a selfregistering pressure gauge, soundings can be rapidly taken in deep ocean.

Thomson's tide gauge, tidal harmonic analyser and tide predicter are famous, and among his work in the interest of navigation must be mentioned his tables for the simplification of Sumner's method for determining the position of a ship at sea.

She didn't like the ominous words and looked up at Dustin again, seeking to gauge just how serious the situation was.

Darkyn was always right; the sense he gave her to gauge when someone around her had an ulterior motive was tingling.