Can you measure the desk to see if it'll fit into that corner?.The nurse weighed me and measured my height.Surgeons use a laser with a beam measuring less than the width of a human hair.They measured it all out painstakingly.The value of government support to the industry can not be measured in terms of cash expenditures.Long enough that he stopped looking around, stopped measuring his relationship to his surroundings.Electrodes were attached to his chest in order to measure his heart rate.The yacht measures eighty-four feet and is fitted out to the highest standards.Rabbits and other hunted animals do not need to measure distance accurately.Some species of python have been measured at over 28 feet long.Income must equal expenditure when all the sources of income and types of expenditure are classified and measured.Again, how many could be one in a set period of time would be measured.Put the soil into a sack measuring 50 centimetres across.The tree in the backyard measures 30 feet in height.The foam seat pad measures 19 by 22 inches and is a quarter-inch thick.When full grown, the Blue Whale measures 110 feet in length.→ measure somebody/something against somebody/something → measure something ↔ off → measure something ↔ out → measure up → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus measure 4 TM if a piece of equipment measures something, it shows or records a particular kind of measurement An odometer measures the number of miles your car travels. The earthquake measured 6.5 on the Richter scale. 3 TM MEASURE to be a particular size, length, or amount The room measures 6 x 6 metres. measure something by something Education shouldn’t be measured purely by examination results. measuring jug/cup/tape (=one used for measuring ) 2 JUDGE to judge the importance, value, or true nature of something SYN assess Doctors say it is too early to measure the effectiveness of the drug. measure something in something We can measure the energy that food provides in calories. measure somebody for something (=measure someone in order to make clothes for them ) She was being measured for her wedding dress. ![]() S2 W2 verb 1 TM MEASURE to find the size, length, or amount of something, using standard units such as inch es, metres etc The rainfall was measured over a three-month period.Measurably ≠ immeasurably From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Measurement ldoce_221_e measure mea‧sure 1 / ˈmeʒə $ -ər / Measurable ≠ immeasurable measured measureless
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