measure

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɛʒ.ə/    美 /ˈmɛʒ.ɚ/|/ˈmeɪ.ʒɚ/|/ˈmɪ.ʒɚ/|/ˈmeʒ.ə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A prescribed quantity or extent.; Moderation, temperance. obsolete
    — I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished.
  2. A prescribed quantity or extent.; A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
    — Mom's rage has no measure.
  3. A prescribed quantity or extent.; An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
    — It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.
  4. The act or result of measuring.; A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
    — a measure of salt
  5. The act or result of measuring.; A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
    — Honesty is the true measure of a man.
  6. The act or result of measuring.; Any of various standard units of capacity.
    — The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.
  7. The act or result of measuring.; A unit of measurement.
    — The fragments shrank by increments of about three kilodaltons (a measure of molecular weight).
  8. The act or result of measuring.; The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
    — The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
  9. The act or result of measuring.; The act or process of measuring. archaic
  10. The act or result of measuring.; A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
  11. The act or result of measuring.; A bed or stratum.
    — coal measures; lead measures
  12. The act or result of measuring.; A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor. archaic
    — the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
  13. The act or result of measuring.; 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
  14. Metrical rhythm.; A melody. archaic
  15. Metrical rhythm.; A dance. archaic
    — He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar,— / "Now tread we a measure!" said young Lochinvar.
  16. Metrical rhythm.; The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
    — a poem in iambic measure
  17. Metrical rhythm.; 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.
  18. A course of action.; Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans. in-plural
    — The president said the measures involve a ban on all visitors to the country via all ports of entry who aren't residents or diplomats. El Salvadorans or residents who return to El Salvador will be quarantined for 30 days..
  19. A course of action.; A piece of legislation.
    — The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
动词 v.
  1. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard. transitive
    — We measured the temperature with a thermometer.
  2. To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement) stative
    — The window measured two square feet.
  3. To estimate the unit size of something.
    — I measure that at 10 centimetres.
  4. To judge, value, or appraise.
    — ſince they meaſure our deſerts so meane, That in conceit beare Empires on our ſpeares, Affecting thoughts coequall with the cloudes, They ſhalbe kept our forced followers, Til with their eies they view vs Emperours.
  5. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
  6. To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over. rare
    — A true devoted pilgrim is not weary / To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.
  7. To adjust by a rule or standard.
    — To secure a contented spirit, you must measure your desires by your fortune and condition, not your fortunes by your desires
  8. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with. often
    — With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
  9. To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity. transitive
    — To measure one’s own activity, to make it conform to these standards of clearness, brevity and truth, is practically a very difficult matter.

词形变化

measures plural measures present,singular,third-person measuring participle,present measured participle,past measured past

词汇关系

下位词
Borel measure complete measure complex measure counting measure fuzzy measure Gibbs measure Lebesgue measure measure space measure theory outer measure positive measure probability measure pseudomeasure quasimeasure Radon measure semimeasure signed measure supermeasure σ-finite measure
衍生词
above measure beyond measure biomeasure bushel measure butter measure by any measure countermeasure dry measure fluid measure for good measure gentleman's measure half measure half-measure hypermeasure in a measure in equal measure in no small measure last full measure liquid measure long measure made-to-measure Mahler measure man is the measure of all things measurebate measure for measure measureless measure of central tendency measure of location measure stick measure word poulter's measure premeasure short measure strike measure struck measure tape measure the measure of a man time-bound measure tread a measure unit of measure weight measure weights and measures Winchester measure commeasure immeasurate measurage dick-measuring contest measurable measurement measure off measure one's length measure out measurer measure strength measure swords measure swords with measure swords with someone measure the drapes measure twice and cut once measure up measuring cup measuring cylinder measuring jug measuring rod measuring spoon measuring tape measuring worm mismeasure outmeasure overmeasure remeasure time-delay measuring instrument time-delay measuring system undermeasure

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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