Gauge

(noun.) a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc..

(noun.) the thickness of wire.

(noun.) the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train.

(noun.) accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared.

(verb.) mix in specific proportions; 'gauge plaster'.

(verb.) adapt to a specified measurement; 'gauge the instruments'.

(verb.) measure precisely and against a standard; 'the wire is gauged'.

(verb.) determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation; 'gauge the wine barrels'.

(verb.) rub to a uniform size; 'gauge bricks'.

拜伦整理

• That is the gauge, the test that has proved the inventor. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Gauge cocks to indicate the height of water, and a safety valve to regulate the pressure of steam, were employed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Thus I had one gauge. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• There is the width of the track, and it was only after a long and expensive contest that countries and corporations settled upon a uniform gauge. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The stock is delivered to the charging floor in iron boxes loaded on narrow-gauge buggies, and is charged into the furnaces by electric charging machines. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The gauge is attached to the gas burner and the pressure is read by means of a scale attached to the gauge. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The depth to which the shares or cultivator blades work in the ground may be adjusted by a gauge wheel upon the draught beam, or a roller on the back of the frame. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• His apparatus consisted of rude home-made rain-gauges, thermometers, and barometers. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Oh, she gauges everybody. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Incommunicative as he was, some time elapsed before I had an opportunity of gauging his mind. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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