Meaning

19 senses
  1. A prescribed quantity or extent.

    (countable, uncountable)A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)

    Mom's rage has no measure.

    грани́цаgraníca, ме́раméra, преде́лpredél

    межа́mežá, мі́раmíra

  2. (countable, uncountable)An (unspecified) portion or quantity.

    Maß, Mass

    коли́чествоkolíčestvo, ме́раméra

    кі́лькістьkílʹkistʹ, мі́раmíra

  3. The act or result of measuring.

    (countable, uncountable)A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.

    a measure of salt

    ме́раméra, ме́ркаmérka

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

  4. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Maß, Maßstab

    крите́рийkritɛ́rij, мери́лоmerílo, ме́раméra

    міри́лоmirýlo, мі́раmíra, мі́ркаmírka

    a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated

  5. (countable, uncountable)Any of various standard units of capacity.

    The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.

    ме́раméra

  6. (countable, uncountable)A unit of measurement.

  7. (countable, uncountable)The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)

    Maß

    ме́раméra, разме́рrazmér

    мі́раmíra

  8. (countable, uncountable)A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.

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

  9. (countable, uncountable)A bed or stratum.

    coal measures; lead measures

  10. (countable, uncountable)A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

  11. Metrical rhythm.

    (countable, uncountable)The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.

    a poem in iambic measure

    разме́рrazmér

  12. (countable, uncountable)A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.

    Takt

    тактtakt

    тактtakt

Examples

556 sentences
  1. Have you measured it?

    Ти це поміряв?

    ruТы его измерил?

    deHast du es vermessen?

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  2. Measure the volume.

    Поміряй об'єм.

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  3. What did you measure it with?

    ruЧем ты это измерил?

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  4. Do you have a tape measure?

    ruУ тебя есть рулетка?

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  5. The measure became law in October.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 7
prescribed quantity or extent:
act or result of measuring:
limit that cannot be exceeded:
unspecified portion or quantity:
standard against which something can be judged, criterion:
musical designation:
action to achieve some purpose:
Русский
By meaning 8
prescribed quantity or extent:
act or result of measuring:
something to take measurements:
limit that cannot be exceeded:
unspecified portion or quantity:
standard against which something can be judged, criterion:
musical designation:
action to achieve some purpose:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
act or result of measuring:
unspecified portion or quantity:
standard against which something can be judged, criterion:
musical designation:
action to achieve some purpose:

Origin

From Middle English mesure, from Old French mesure, from Latin mēnsūra (“a measure”), mēti

From Middle English mesure, from Old French mesure, from Latin mēnsūra (“a measure”), mētior (“to measure”, supine stem in mēns-) + -tūra. Largely displaced native Old English metan ("to measure" whence modern mete) and ġemet (“a measure”). See also -ure.

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Forms

plural: measures
Singularmeasure
Pluralmeasures

regular

Synonyms

18 synonyms
musical designation:barA1
Close in meaning
  • how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify:quantityamount
  • any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal:step
  • musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats:bar
  • measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements:measuring stickmeasuring rod
  • a statute in draft before it becomes law:bill
  • the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule:measurementmeasuringmensuration

Word family

32 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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