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Word Meanings - METERAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring.

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  • 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.
  • MEASURER
    One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
  • MEASURABLE
    1. Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation. 2. Moderate; temperate; not excessive. Of his diet measurable was he. Chaucer. -- Meas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Meas"ur*a*bly, adv. Yet do it measurably, as it becometh
  • MEASURELESS
    Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable. -- Meas"ure*less*ness, n. Syn. -- Boundless; limitless; endless; unbounded; unlimited; vast; immense; infinite; immeasurable. Where Alf, the sacred river ran, Through canyons measureless to man, Down to
  • MEASURE
    The space between two bars. See Beat, Triple, Quadruple, Sextuple, Compound time, under Compound, a., and Figure. The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic
  • MEASURED
    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.
  • MEASUREMENT
    1. The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required. 2. The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
  • IMMEASURABLY
    In an immeasurable manner or degree. "Immeasurably distant." Wordsworth.
  • IMMEASURED
    Immeasurable. Spenser.
  • ADMEASURE
    To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. (more info) 1. To measure.
  • REMEASURE
    To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.
  • OUTMEASURE
    To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. Sir T. Browne.
  • WATER MEASURE
    A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel. Cowell.
  • OVERMEASURE
    To measure or estimate too largely.
  • PASSYMEASURE
    See SHAK
  • UNMEASURABLE
    Immeasurable. Swift. -- Un*meas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*meas"ur*a*bly, adv.
  • WATER MEASURER
    Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
  • COMMEASURABLE
    Having the same measure; commensurate; proportional. She being now removed by death, a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had one. I. Walton.
  • ADMEASURER
    One who admeasures.
  • IMMEASURABLENESS
    The state or quality of being immeasurable. Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone. F. W. Robertson.
  • MISMEASURE
    To measure or estimate incorrectly.

 

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