measure

measure

englanti

  1. mitta

  2. määrä

  3. toimenpide

Esimerkkejä measure sanan käytöstä:

take measures – ryhtyä toimenpiteisiin

Liittyvät sanat: measurement

Synonyymisanakirja

measure

  1. taktinen liike, manööveri, taktinen manööveri, keino, toimenpide, vastatoimi, hainkarkote, shark repellent, suojaava yritysjärjestely, juridinen myrkkypilleri, seismografia, kvantitatiivinen analyysi, kvantitatiivinen kemiallinen analyysi, mittaus, mittaaminen, mitta.

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Käännökset

englanti

mitta

toimenpide, keino

olla mitoiltaan A prescribed quantity or extent.
puhekieltä moderation Moderation, temperance. (defdate)
c. 1390, (w), Piers Plowman, I:

Mesure is medcynee · þouȝ þow moche ȝerne.
1611, Bible, Authorized Version, Jer. XXX:
I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished.
A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.) (defdate)
1667, (w), Paradise Lost, V:
Full to the utmost measure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend.
(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
2009, Mike Selvey, The Guardian, 25 Aug 2009:
They have gloried to this day, the tedious interminable big-screen replays of that golden summer irritating beyond measure.
An (unspecified) portion or quantity. (defdate)
2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads Englands rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian'', 6 September 2013)http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/06/england-moldova-world-cup-qualifier-matchreport:
It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.

(ux)

The act or result of measuring.
puhekieltä A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance. (defdate)
A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion. (defdate)
{{quote-journal|date=October 23, 2011|author=Phil McNulty|work=BBC Sport
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)
Bible, Job xi. 9
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
puhekieltä The act or process of measuring. (defdate)

(rfquotek)

A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements. (defdate)
puhekieltä 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

puhekieltä A bed or stratum. (defdate)

coal measures; lead measures

puhekieltä 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.
puhekieltä A melody. (defdate)
puhekieltä A dance. (defdate)
1808, (w), Marmion:
Now tread we a measure! said young Lochinvar.
(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.
puhekieltä The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot. (defdate)

a poem in iambic measure

puhekieltä 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.
puhekieltä action Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans. (defdate)
A piece of legislation. (defdate)
(quote-magazine)
To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
To estimate the unit size of something.
To judge, value, or appraise.
(w)
Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite / Thy power! what thought can measure thee?
To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
puhekieltä To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
A true devoted pilgrim is not weary / To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.
To adjust by a rule or standard.
Jeremy Taylor
To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires.
To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.
Bible, Matthew vii. 2
With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Addison
That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.

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force majeure, kure, houre, kuumehoure, suure, vakiosuure, satunnaissuure

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