Word Meanings - MISMEASURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To measure or estimate incorrectly.

Related words: (words related to MISMEASURE)

• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• INCORRECTLY
  Not correctly; inaccurately; not exactly; as, a writing incorrectly copied; testimony incorrectly stated.
• 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
• ESTIMATE
  1. To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic , or intrinsic , value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents
• 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.
• 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.
• OVERESTIMATE
  To estimate too highly; to overvalue.
• PASSYMEASURE
  See SHAK
• MISESTIMATE
  To estimate erroneously. J. S. Mill.
• WATER MEASURER
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
• ADMEASURER
  One who admeasures.
• MISMEASURE
  To measure or estimate incorrectly.
• UNDERESTIMATE
  To set to
• MISMEASUREMENT
  Wrong measurement.