Synonym: appraise, assess, estimate, judge, measure, rate, size up. Similar words: fuel gauge, gaur, gaudy, gaunt, gauche, gauntlet, huge, rouge. Meaning: [geɪdʒ] n. 1. a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. 2. accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared 3. the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train 4. the thickness of wire 5. diameter of a tube or gun barrel. v. 1. judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) 2. rub to a uniform size 3. determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation 4. measure precisely and against a standard 5. adapt to a specified measurement 6. mix in specific proportions.
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151) Indeed, sitting through the replay it was difficult to gauge whether it was live or not.
152) After running the engine for a few miles, the gauge is up to the red.
153) It is difficult to gauge how far the internet might become a vehicle for free information.
154) Save for some washing out in direct sun, we have no complaints about the gauge cluster, either.
155) The gauge on a storage tank had been damaged and was leaking.
156) The company admitted responsibility, but managing director Peter Barrell said the gauge had been damaged by trespassers.sentencedict.com
157) That might explain what Dole is trying to gauge in the brief encounters along the campaign trail.
158) The whole is interwoven with narrow gauge tramways for transporting the harvest to the crushing plant.
159) They hope to find ways to gauge the effectiveness of drug rehab programs.
160) Talmi is so surprised by the tempo that he taps a finger on his wristwatch to gauge the metronome marking.
161) It relies on textbooks, repetitive problem-solving and drills to gauge what students know.
162) In patient 2 the tip of a fine 0.018 inch gauge guidewire was amputated in the liver parenchyma.
163) Most standard gauge machines like these acrylics, knitting art about tension six or seven[sentencedict.com], according to the make of machine.
164) As we headed up Hartshead Moor, I checked my fuel gauge and started sweating again.
165) This means that you need to use a fine yarn, two- or three-ply for standard gauge machines.
166) Some miles south and east there is another narrow gauge railway.
167) Key in the ignition, nothing in the glove compartment and the petrol gauge read empty.
168) My youth seemed interminable because my personal identity was unclear, and in the resulting fog the gauge of time became unmeasurable.
169) Such data include those from the Population and Agricultural Censuses as well as point data from rain gauge sites and radiation monitoring stations.
170) At least when you're knitting on the bigger gauges you have fewer rows to knit than on a fine or standard gauge.
171) She stands there tapping that thermometer against her wrist watch, eyes whirring while she tries to gauge this new man.
172) The fuel gauge reads below zero.
173) He looked at me, trying to gauge my reaction.
174) He took the gauge of the new secretary's ability.
175) This apparatus consists essentially of a flow meter, a pressure gauge.
176) The physical origin of the gauge transformation is a mystery.
177) "The fuel gauge is broken." — "Broken? How do you mean?".
178) A 12 - gauge shotgun was found at the crime scene.
179) My car's gas gauge indicated that there was little gas left.
180) The simplest type of pressure gauge is the open - tube manometer.