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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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