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measurenoun an action planned or taken to achieve a desired resultsuch new security measures as metal detectors at all the entrances expedient, means, move, shift, step act, action, deed, doing, feat, thingcourse, procedure, proceeding, processaccomplishment, achievement, attainment, coup, exploit, success, triumphactivity, affair, business, dealing, enterprise, eventattempt, crack, endeavor, essay, fling, go, initiative, operation, pass, shot, stab, trial, try, undertaking, whackeffort, exertion, labor, pains, trouble, while, workproject, proposal, propositionmakeshift, resort, resource, stopgapcountermeasure, countermove, counterstep a given or particular mass or aggregate of mattereach day prisoners were given only a small measure of rice to live on something set up as an example against which others of the same type are comparedduring the Renaissance, man came to be viewed as the measure of all things bar, barometer, benchmark, criterion, gold standard, grade, mark, metric, par, standard, touchstone, yardstick case, example, instanceaverage, norm, ruleacme, apex, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, zenith aberration, abnormality, deviation the recurrent pattern formed by a series of sounds having a regular rise and fall in intensitythe song's soft, soothing measures make it a good lullaby beat, cadence, meter, rhythm accent, accentuation, emphasis, stressbackbeatdrum, throblilt, movement, sway, swinghexameter, pentameter, tetrameter, trimeter the total amount of measurable space or surface occupied by somethinga slipcover for the couch that was made to measure bulk, dimension, extent, magnitude, measurement, proportion, size areacapaciousness, commodiousness, roominess, spaciousnessampleness, amplitude, bigness, bulkiness, enormousness, grandness, greatness, grossness, heftiness, hugeness, immenseness, immensity, largeness, mass, massiveness, monstrousness, stupendousness, tremendousness, vastness, volume, voluminousness measureverbto find out the size, extent, or amount offor this experiment, you need to carefully measure all the chemicals before you mix them together gauge(also gage), scale, span weighcalibrate, caliperquantify, quantitatelay off, mark (off)calculate, cipher, compute, figure, reckon, work outappraise, assess, conjecture, estimate, evaluate, guess, guesstimate, judge, suppose, valuate, valueadd up, sum, tally, totalascertain, determine, discover, dope (out), figure out, find out to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)he carefully measured his response to the provocative question bridle, check, constrain, contain, control, curb, govern, hold, inhibit, keep, pull in, regulate, rein (in), restrain, rule, tame bottle (up), choke (back), hold back, mince, muffle, pocket, repress, sink, smother, squelch, stifle, strangle, suppress, swallowarrest, interrupt, stopblock, hamper, handcuff, hinder, impede, obstructgag, muzzle, silence lose liberate, loose, loosen, unleashair, express, take out, vent in the 13th century |