measure
suomi-englanti sanakirjameasure englannista suomeksi
mitta
toimenpide, keino
olla mitoiltaan
runomitta
normi, mittapuu
mitata
lakiehdotus
arvottaa
tahti
Substantiivi
unspeciefied amount of something is expressed by partitive case of that something; jossain määrin, jonkin verran a measure of
mitta anything; mittatikku ruler, stick, mittanauha tape, mittari apparatus, viivoitin ruler
Verbi
measure englanniksi
A prescribed quantity or extent.
Moderation, temperance. (defdate)
(RQ:KJV)
A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.) (defdate)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(quote-book): The Words of the High One a Personal Interpretation|author=J Coarguo|year=2005|passage=but there is never found a foolish man who knows the measure of his stomach
(quote-journal)
(quote-journal) and what it means for (w)'s team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.
The act or result of measuring.
A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance. (defdate)
(ux)
A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion. (defdate)
Any of various standard units of capacity. (defdate)
A unit of measurement. (defdate)
1993, ''Scientific American'' February 33.3:
- The fragments shrank by increments of about three kilodaltons (a measure of molecular weight).
The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in (m).) (defdate)
- The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
The act or process of measuring. (defdate)
A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements. (defdate)
A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor. (defdate)
''the greatest common measure of two or more numbers''
''coal measures; lead measures''
A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like. (defdate)
Metrical rhythm.
A melody. (defdate)
A dance. (defdate)
(RQ:Scott Marmion)
(quote-book)|title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days|chapter=2/2/2|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1519647W|passage=They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.
The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot. (defdate)
''a poem in iambic measure''
A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar. (defdate)
A course of action.
(quote-journal)| title=https://www.straitstimes.com/world/americas/its-coronavirus-free-but-el-salvador-is-banning-all-foreign-travellers It's coronavirus-free, but El Salvador is banning all foreign travellers| passage=The president said the measures involve a ban on all visitors to the country via all ports of entry who aren't residents or diplomats. El Salvadorans or residents who return to El Salvador will be quarantined for 30 days..
A piece of legislation. (defdate)
(quote-journal)| title=Obama goes troll-hunting| passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
(quote-journal)| title=Towards the end of poverty| passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
To estimate the unit size of something.
To judge, value, or appraise.
(RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)
*(RQ:Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona)
1859, Ferna Vale, ''Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds''
- "And for a very sensible reason; there never was but one like her; or, that is, I have always thought so until to-day," replied the tar, glancing toward Natalie; "for my old eyes have seen pretty much everything they have got in this little world. Ha! I should like to see the inch of land or water that my foot hasn't measured."
To adjust by a rule or standard.
(RQ:Taylor Holy Living)
To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with ''out'' or ''off''.
- With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
(RQ:Spectator)
- That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.