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A prescribed quantity or extent.
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The act or result of measuring.
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Metrical rhythm.
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A course of action.
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A prescribed quantity or extent.
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The act or result of measuring.
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Metrical rhythm.
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A course of action.
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To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
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We measured the temperature with a thermometer. You should measure the angle with a spirit level.
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To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
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The window measured two square feet.
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To estimate the unit size of something.
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I measure that at 10 centimetres.
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To judge, value, or appraise.
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To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
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To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
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To adjust by a rule or standard.
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To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.
These are the measures the government has adopted to re- establish order and relieve your condition.
Payne in Madras, one tusk measures 6 ft.
The situation called for extreme measures.
She'd not yet figured out how to convert their measures of distance to miles.
He admired the security measures, noting that it was impossible for anyone to reach the landmines, unless the biohazard elimination field was down.
Through the adoption of standardized treaties, they can enter into economic agreements, adopt the same weights and measures, and agree to honor the intellectual property of the others.
After the War, the government created seven protected sites around the world with only one person at the site knowing what was there and security measures that were beyond anything the Peak had.
A tusk in the British Museum measures io ft.
It measures 1608 ft.
At Ecbatana new masses of treasure were seized, but when once the necessary measures which its disposal and the occupation of the Median capital entailed were taken, Alexander continued the pursuit.
But his measures speedily gave dissatisfaction to the Argentine or Creole party, who had long chafed under the disabilities of Spanish rule, and who now felt themselves no longer bound by ties of loyalty to a country which was in the possession of the French armies.
At the first hint of below freezing weather, Howie was on the job, covering everything and reading up on all preventive measures known to man.
Jackson was right; she could barely get through five or six measures before the tears started to flow.
Thus, in spite of his academic sympathy with liberal ideas, he became, together with Metternich, a champion of political stagnation, and co-operated willingly in the reactionary measures against the revolutionary movements in Germany, Italy and Spain.
The Hungarian Government could claim the right to take independent economic measures for her own territory in war-time; a joint arrangement was only possible for the territories of the Dual Monarchy - which were united for tariff purposes - by agreements between the Austrian and Hungarian Governments; and since neither Government was exclusively concerned to carry out an adjustment of economic conditions solely in accordance with what was necessary for waging war and holding out with the supplies at their disposal, but each had also to champion the interests of one half of the monarchy against the other, the negotiations between the two Governments were often attended with the greatest difficulties, and constantly ended unsatisfactorily.
To prevent the war being brought to a premature end by dearth of supplies, the Government took measures, modelled on those adopted in Germany, for ensuring that necessary goods should be supplied to the proper quarters - whether the army authorities, manufacturers of war material, or consumers - and at a moderate price.
Many other measures had also to be resorted to in order to maintain the industry of the country.
All these measures could not alter the fact that the national economy became less and less equal to the tasks imposed upon it by the war.
To these purely economic difficulties was added the growing opposition of the population to the measures of compulsion.
The Government tried to oppose the rise in prices by penal measures, and in public attributed the rise of foreign rates to speculation.
On his return he took strong parliamentary measures against Presbyterians, and consequently, at a provincial synod held at St Andrews in April 1586, he was accused of heresy and excommunicated, but at the next General Assembly the sentence was remitted as illegal.
Under a constitutional amendment, adopted by popular vote on the 8th of November 1898, 5% of the legal voters of the state may require the legislature to submit to popular vote at the next general election measures which they wish enacted into law, or measures already passed by the legislature which have not 'yet gone into force.
The governor's veto does not apply to measures passed by popular vote.
The southern of the two principal islands, Fukae-shima, measures 17 m.
In 1774 and 1775 he was president of the first and second Provincial Congresses respectively, and he shared with Samuel Adams the leadership of the Massachusetts Whigs in all the irregular measures preceding the War of American Independence.
It measures 4 m.
The harbour measures 180 yds.
In 1827 he obtained a seat in the supreme council, and in March 1835, after he had acted as the first governor of the proposed new presidency of Agra, he provisionally succeeded Lord William Bentinck in the governor-generalship. During his brief tenure of office (it lasted only for one year) he carried out several important measures, including that for the liberation of the press, which, while almost universally popular, complicated his relations with the directors at home to such an extent that he resigned the service of the Company in 1838.
Hence the meter is a watt-hour meter and measures electric energy.
The Bonapartes moved from place to place, mainly with the view of concerting measures for the recovery of Corsica.
An ancient Chinese law, moreover, prescribed the regularization of weights and measures at the spring equinox.
The king is an autocrat in practice as well as in theory, he has an absolute power .of veto, and the initiative of measures rests largely with him.
Measures of capacity are the tang or bucket, and the sat or basket.
His reign is a period of some importance in the legislative history of Scotland, as measures were passed with regard to the tenure of land, the reformation of the coinage, and the protection of the poor, while the organization for the administration of justice was greatly improved.
A friend can take you beyond the security measures.
It is more pleasing to point out certain of his public measures upon which no difference of opinion can arise.
Archimedes concluded from his measurements that the sun's diameter was greater than 27' and less than 32'; and even Tycho Brahe was so misled by his measures of the apparent diameters of the sun and moon as to conclude that a total eclipse of the sun was impossible.'
The obvious remedy is to make all measures on opposite sides of the fixed web before reversing in position-angle - a precaution, however, which no careful observer would neglect.
But in OS measures index error can be eliminated by bisecting both stars with the same web (or different webs of known interval fixed on the same frame), and not employing the fixed web at all.
For very refined work, however, the irregularities in the reproduction of the reseau may be studied by comparing the measures of the original reseau with the mean of corresponding measures of a number of photographed copies of it.
The excellent manner in which the scales and micrometers are mounted, the employment of a compound microscope for viewing the scales, with its ingeniously arranged and admirably efficient reversing prism, and the perfection of its slow motions for focusing and reading, combine to render this a most accurate and convenient instrument for very refined measures, although too slow for work in which the measures must depend on single pointings in each of two reversed positions of the plate, and where speed of working is essential.
The entrance almost invariably faces south, and measures, as a rule, 5 or 6 ft.
In 1820 he retired with a pension his estate at Hornau, near Hochst, in Hesse-Darmstadt; but as a member of the first chamber of the states of the grand-duchy he continued to take an active share in the promotion of measures for the welfare of his country.
Selim determined on war with Persia, where the heresy was the prevalent religion, and in order that the Shiites in Turkey should give no trouble during the war, "measures were taken," as the Turkish historian states, which may be explained as the reader desires, and which proved fully efficacious.
In 1671 the archbishop of Paris, by the king's order, summoned the heads of the university to his presence, and enjoined them to take stricter measures against philosophical novelties dangerous to the faith.
In 1677 the university of Caen adopted not less stringent measures against Cartesianism.
Caesar had projected remedial measures, but (as in so many cases) had never been able to carry them out, and it was not until the time of Claudius that the problem was approached.
Towards the close of the Palaeozoic era France had become a part of a great continent; in the north the Coal Measures of the Boulonnais and the Nord were laid down in direct connection with those of Belgium and England, while in the Central Plateau the Coal Measures were deposited in isolated and scattered basins.
In default of legislation the necessary measures are taken by decree of the head of the state; these decrees having the force of law.
His treatise on numerical divisions, weights and measures (Distributio) is extant, with the exception of the concluding portion.
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