Word Meanings - GAUGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock. The vanes nicely gauged on each side. Derham. 4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment. 5. To measure

Additional info about word: GAUGE

To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock. The vanes nicely gauged on each side. Derham. 4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment. 5. To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of. You shall not gauge me By what we do to-night. Shak. (more info) jauge; of uncertain origin; perh. fr. an assumed L. qualificare to determine the qualities of a thing ; but cf. also F. 1. To measure or determine with a gauge. 2. To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GAUGE)

• Calibre
• Gauge
• diameter
• ability
• capacity
• force
• strength
• power
• Fathom
• pierce
• measure
• sound
• probe
• Measure Mete
• estimate
• gauge
• value
• appraise
• Sound
• Probe
• investigate
• Standard
• Measure
• criterion
• test
• rule
• exemplar
• banner
• flag
• type
• model
• scale
• plummet
• trutination

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GAUGE)

• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion
• Miscompute
• misestimate
• disesteem
• disregard
• vilipend
• underrate
• undervalue
• underestimate
• despise
• contemn
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to GAUGE)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• GAUGE
  To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock. The vanes nicely gauged on each side. Derham. 4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment. 5. To measure
• BANNERED
  Decorated with a banner or banners "bannered host." Milton.
• BANNEROL
  A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.
• FATHOMER
  One who fathoms.
• MISCOMPUTE
  To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne.
• ABILITY
  The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then
• STRENGTHFUL
  Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• PROBE
  1. To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe. 2. Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly. Dryden. The growing disposition to probe the legality of all acts, of the crown. Hallam.
• GAUGER
  One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• GAUGEABLE
  Capable of being gauged.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• TRUTINATION
  The act of weighing. Sir T. Browne.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• ADORABILITY
  Adorableness.
• AMENABILITY
  The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• EQUABILITY
  The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray.
• COMMENSURABILITY
  The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.
• DEFLAGRABILITY
  The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.
• IMMEABILITY
  Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• GUNTER'S SCALE
  A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales
• INEVITABILITY
  Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.
• EFFUMABILITY
  The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. Boyle.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT