All gauge synonyms
gauge
G g verb gauge
- measure β a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- guess β to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
- calculate β If you calculate a number or amount, you discover it from information that you already have, by using arithmetic, mathematics, or a special machine.
- ascertain β If you ascertain the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so.
- assess β When you assess a person, thing, or situation, you consider them in order to make a judgment about them.
- determine β If a particular factor determines the nature of a thing or event, it causes it to be of a particular kind.
- quantify β to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- weigh β to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- appraise β If you appraise something or someone, you consider them carefully and form an opinion about them.
- take account of β an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- calibrate β If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.
- count β A Count is a European nobleman with the same rank as an English earl.
- scale β a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- compute β To compute a quantity or number means to calculate it.
- peg β a female given name, form of Peggy.
- figure β a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- reckon β to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- tally β an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.
- meter β an instrument for measuring, especially one that automatically measures and records the quantity of something, as of gas, water, miles, or time, when it is activated.
- rate β the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation: a high rate of interest on loans.
- value β relative worth, merit, or importance: the value of a college education; the value of a queen in chess.
- adjudge β If someone is adjudged to be something, they are judged or considered to be that thing.
- check β Check is also a noun.
- size β any of various gelatinous or glutinous preparations made from glue, starch, etc., used for filling the pores of cloth, paper, etc., or as an adhesive ground for gold leaf on books.
- guesstimate β to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- evaluate β Form an idea of the amount, number, or value of; assess.
- judge β Alan L(aVern) born 1932, U.S. astronaut.
- estimate β Roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of.
- test β Zoology. the hard, protective shell or covering of certain invertebrates, as echinoderms or tunicates.
- cheque β A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
- eye β Each of a pair of globular organs in the head through which people and vertebrate animals see, the visible part typically appearing almond-shaped in animals with eyelids.
- metre β an instrument for measuring, especially one that automatically measures and records the quantity of something, as of gas, water, miles, or time, when it is activated.
noun gauge
- device β A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
- instrument β a mechanical tool or implement, especially one used for delicate or precision work: surgical instruments.
- tester β the teston of Henry VIII.
- standard β something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
- barometer β A barometer is an instrument that measures air pressure and shows when the weather is changing.
- benchmark β A benchmark is something whose quality or quantity is known and which can therefore be used as a standard with which other things can be compared.
- criterion β A criterion is a factor on which you judge or decide something.
- indicator β a person or thing that indicates.
- pattern β a distinctive style, model, or form: a new pattern of army helmet.
- yardstick β a stick a yard long, commonly marked with subdivisions, used for measuring.
- basis β If something is done on a particular basis, it is done according to that method, system, or principle.
- bore β If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
- capacity β The capacity of a container is its volume, or the amount of liquid it can hold, measured in units such as litres or gallons.
- degree β You use degree to indicate the extent to which something happens or is the case, or the amount which something is felt.
- depth β The depth of something such as a river or hole is the distance downwards from its top surface, or between its upper and lower surfaces.
- example β A thing characteristic of its kind or illustrating a general rule.
- exemplar β A person or thing serving as a typical example or excellent model.
- extent β The area covered by something.