Dictionary Entry
gage
gage is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
- 2noun
A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.
- 3noun
A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.
- 4noun
To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
- 5noun
To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
- 6noun
A measure or standard. See Gauge.
- 7transitive verb
To measure. See Gauge. t.
- 8noun
a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
Synonyms
- 9noun
street names for marijuana
- 10verb
place a bet on
"Which horse are you backing?"
"I'm betting on the new horse"
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