Gauge
[geɪdʒ] or [gedʒ]
解释:
(noun.) a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc..
(noun.) the thickness of wire.
(noun.) the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train.
(noun.) accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared.
(verb.) mix in specific proportions; 'gauge plaster'.
(verb.) adapt to a specified measurement; 'gauge the instruments'.
(verb.) measure precisely and against a standard; 'the wire is gauged'.
(verb.) determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation; 'gauge the wine barrels'.
(verb.) rub to a uniform size; 'gauge bricks'.
拜伦整理--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To measure or determine with a gauge.
(v. t.) To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.
(v. t.) To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock.
(v. t.) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.
(v. t.) To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.
(n.) A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
(n.) Measure; dimensions; estimate.
(n.) Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.
(n.) Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
(n.) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.
(n.) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
(n.) The distance between the rails of a railway.
(n.) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.
(n.) That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
编辑:拉维恩
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Measure (a cask, &c.), find the contents of.[2]. Measure (as to ability), estimate.
n. Measure.
弗朗西斯整理
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Measure, fathom, probe
ANT:Survey, conjecture, view, {[ecan]?}, guess, observe, mismeasure
伯纳德录入
例句:
- That is the gauge, the test that has proved the inventor. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Gauge cocks to indicate the height of water, and a safety valve to regulate the pressure of steam, were employed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Thus I had one gauge. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- There is the width of the track, and it was only after a long and expensive contest that countries and corporations settled upon a uniform gauge. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The stock is delivered to the charging floor in iron boxes loaded on narrow-gauge buggies, and is charged into the furnaces by electric charging machines. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The gauge is attached to the gas burner and the pressure is read by means of a scale attached to the gauge. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The depth to which the shares or cultivator blades work in the ground may be adjusted by a gauge wheel upon the draught beam, or a roller on the back of the frame. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- His apparatus consisted of rude home-made rain-gauges, thermometers, and barometers. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Oh, she gauges everybody. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Incommunicative as he was, some time elapsed before I had an opportunity of gauging his mind. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
编辑:洛拉