measure

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• October 7. 2012 by jonasmunk from wordnet.princeton.edu

  measure — noun — english

  any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal; "the situation called for strong measures"; "the police took steps to reduce crime"

• February 29. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  measure — noun — english

  how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify

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  measure — noun — english

  a statute in draft before it becomes law; "they held a public hearing on the bill"

• February 29. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  measure — noun — english

  the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate"

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  measure — noun — english

  a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated; "the schools comply with federal standards"; "they set the measure for all subsequent work"

• February 29. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  measure — noun — english

  (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

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  measure — noun — english

  musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song"

• February 29. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  measure — noun — english

  measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements

• February 29. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  measure — noun — english

  a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance