Gauge

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard

   “1780, Edmund Burke, speech at The Guildhall, in Bristol the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt”

2. isim An act of measuring.
3. isim An estimate.
4. isim Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
5. isim A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes, with lower numbers indicating larger size.
6. isim Ellipsis of track gauge.

   “It was Locke who concisely won the argument for a standardised gauge of 4ft 8½ inches over Brunel's 7ft 0 ¼in preference. […] Today, over 60% of the world's railways use that gauge.”

7. isim Ellipsis of loading gauge.
8. isim A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
9. isim The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
10. isim Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.

    “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. isim The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
12. isim The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
13. isim 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.
14. isim A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
15. isim A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).

    “I'm talking about cocking a gauge in between your eyes.”

16. isim A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.

    “Jenni didn't really look as though she fit in with the rest of the girls here, she had a nose piercing and angel bites, her long curly dark brown hair with red highlights was pulled back exposing gauges and many other ear piercings and a tattoo […]”

17. isim Cannabis.

    “[…] smoking gauge was a new phenomenon to Himes: “When I looked up after turning the corner, all the grimy facades seemed to be a blaze of bright colors, gold, scarlet, blue, green, like an array of peacocks. […]”

18. fiil To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
19. fiil To estimate.
20. fiil To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.

    “You shall not gauge me / By what we do to-night.”

21. fiil To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
22. fiil To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
23. fiil To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
24. özel isim A male given name.