measure
/ˈmɛʒ.ɚ/ sustantivo B1En español: medida, compás, providencia, medición
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.) · Mom's rage has no measure.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance. · a measure of salt
- A standard against which something can be judged; a way of measuring it; a criterion for it. · By what measure should we judge the performance of our teachers?· Honesty is the true measure of a man.
- Any of various standard units of capacity. · The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.
- A unit of measurement.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
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In an adjoining room Andrea saw also a tolerably clean table prepared for two, two bottles of wine sealed, the one with green, the other with yellow, a supply of brandy in a decanter, and a measure of fruit in a cabbage-leaf, cleverly arranged on an earthenware plate.
He had not yet taken the measure of this sire of his, who was as full of unexpectednesses as a girl at her first party.
(_Keep the measure, Nag._)
“A thorough, determined dislike of me--a dislike which I cannot but attribute in some measure to jealousy.
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