Antonyms for gauge
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : geyj |
| Phonetic Transcription : geɪdʒ |
Definition of gauge
Origin :- "ascertain by exact measurements," mid-15c., from Anglo-French gauge (mid-14c.), from Old North French gauger (Old French jauger), from gauge "gauging rod," perhaps from Frankish *galgo "rod, pole for measuring" or another Germanic source (cf. Old Norse gelgja "pole, perch," Old High German galgo; see gallows). Related: Gauged; gauging. The figurative use is from 1580s.
- noun measure, standard
- verb measure, judge
- Nevertheless, he has liberated a force that no gauge made by man can measure.
- Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr
- But it is not every man that can gauge the value of a working mine so well as John Kenyon.'
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- The gauge is a narrow one, so that the locomotive can be made of small dimensions.
- Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 417 » by Various
- The battery was exhausted, but this fact had not been indicated on the gauge.
- Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout » by Victor Appleton
- I was trying cautiously to gauge him, to get from him all the information I could.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 » by Various
- I had no way to gauge my own feelings because I had never had such an experience before.
- Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey
- Mind, it is simply as a gauge of the fellow's veracity that this story has any value for us.
- Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever
- You meet with clever fellows every day in the week who have no gauge of their own cleverness.
- Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
- He checked the gauge with his watch—ninety minutes of oxygen to zero.
- Extract from : « Shipwreck in the Sky » by Eando Binder
- I tried to gauge the distance; it was not over two miles from here.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 » by Various
Synonyms for gauge
- adjudge
- appraise
- ascertain
- assess
- barometer
- basis
- benchmark
- bore
- calculate
- calibrate
- capacity
- check
- check out
- compute
- count
- criterion
- degree
- depth
- determine
- estimate
- evaluate
- example
- exemplar
- extent
- eye
- figure
- figure in
- guess
- guesstimate
- guide
- guideline
- have one's number
- height
- indicator
- look over
- magnitude
- mark
- meter
- model
- norm
- pattern
- peg
- quantify
- quantitate
- rate
- reckon
- rule
- sample
- scale
- scope
- size
- size up
- span
- take account of
- tally
- test
- thickness
- touchstone
- type
- value
- weigh
- width
- yardstick
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