gauge

gauge is a 5-letter English word with 25 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To measure or determine with a gauge. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 25 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To measure or determine with a gauge.
2. transitive verb. To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.
3. transitive verb. To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock.
4. transitive verb. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.
5. transitive verb. To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.
6. noun. A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
7. noun. Measure; dimensions; estimate.
8. noun. Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.
9. noun. Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
10. noun. Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, 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.
11. noun. The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
12. noun. The distance between the rails of a railway.
13. noun. The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.
14. noun. 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.
15. noun. a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.

    Synonyms: gage

16. noun. diameter of a tube or gun barrel

    Synonyms: bore, caliber, calibre

17. noun. the thickness of wire
18. noun. the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
19. noun. accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
20. verb. mix in specific proportions

    "gauge plaster"

21. verb. adapt to a specified measurement

    "gauge the instruments"

22. verb. measure precisely and against a standard

    "the wire is gauged"

23. verb. judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)

    "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"

    Synonyms: approximate, estimate, guess, judge

24. verb. determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation

    "gauge the wine barrels"

25. verb. rub to a uniform size

    "gauge bricks"

Synonyms

gage, bore, caliber, calibre, approximate, estimate, guess, judge

Common word forms

gauged, gauger, gauges, gauging, gaugeable

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