Word Meanings - MEASURED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Regulated or determined by a standard; hence, equal; uniform; graduated; limited; moderated; as, he walked with measured steps; he expressed himself in no measured terms. -- Meas"ured*ly, adv.

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• WALK-MILL
  A fulling mill. Halliwell.
• MODERATISM
  Moderation in doctrines or opinion, especially in politics or religion.
• MODERATRIX
  A female moderator.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• GRADUATOR
  1. One who determines or indicates graduation; as, a graduator of instruments. 2. An instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into small, regular intervals. 3. An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• MEASURING
  Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure. Measuring faucet, a faucet which permits only a given quantity of liquid to pass each time it is opened, or one by means of which the liquid which passes can be measured.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• UNIFORMLY
  In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly , to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of
• 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,
• STEPSTONE
  A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house.
• MODERATOR
  1. One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies. Sir W. Raleigh. Angling was ... a moderator of passions. Walton. 2. The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare
• EQUALIZE
  1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• GRADUATED
  Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the
• LIMITARY
  1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.
• MODERATE
  Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as: Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. Limited in degree
• SHOPWALKER
  One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• MESOCUNEIFORM; MESOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• IMMEASURABLY
  In an immeasurable manner or degree. "Immeasurably distant." Wordsworth.
• INEQUALITY
  An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.
• SIDEWALK
  A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.