gauge
see also: Gauge
Etymology
Gauge
Proper noun
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see also: Gauge
Etymology
From Middle English gauge, gaugen, from Anglo-Norman -, fro-nor - gauger (compare Modern French jauger from Old French jaugier), from gauge ("gauging rod"), from Frankish *galga, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- ("perch, long switch").
Pronunciation Noungauge
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- 1780, Edmund Burke, speech at The Guildhall, in Bristol
- the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt
- 1780, Edmund Burke, speech at The Guildhall, in Bristol
- An act of measuring.
- An estimate.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes, with lower numbers indicating larger size.
- (rail) Ellipsis of track gauge
- (rail) Ellipsis of loading gauge
- (mathematics, analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- A vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.
- (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
- (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
- (US, slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
- A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- Synonyms: ear gauge
- 2013, Destiny Patterson, Samantha Beckworth, Jennifer Proctor, Arose, page 150:
- Jenni didn't really look as though she fit in with the rest of the girls here, she had a nose piercing and angel bites, her long curly dark brown hair with red highlights was pulled back exposing gauges and many other ear piercings and a tattoo […]
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- 2000, Cynthia Palmer, Michael Horowitz, Sisters of the Extreme:
- When we settled, he said, “You've been smoking gauge, haven't you?”
- French: gabarit
- German: Meter, Messgerät, Maß
- Italian: calibro, unità di misura, strumento di misura
- Portuguese: medida, medição
- Russian: ме́ра
- Spanish: medida, patrón
- French: étalon
- German: Messgerät, Meter
- Italian: calibro
- Portuguese: medidor
- Russian: измерительный прибор
- Spanish: medidor, galga
gauge (gauges, present participle gauging; simple past and past participle gauged)
- (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- (transitive) To estimate.
- (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:
- You shall not gauge me / By what we do to-night.
- (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
- French: estimer, jauger
- Russian: оце́нивать
Gauge
Proper noun
- A male given name
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