to gauge
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3.5
- verb
- /ɡeɪdʒ/
- Most importantly, ask questions that can ensure active student participation and help you gauge student understanding.
- gauge the effectiveness
- gauge the impact
- difficult to gauge
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Watch on YouTubeI'm listening, but I can't quite gauge here through this virtual world.
- I'm listening, but I can't quite gauge here through this virtual world.
- Without sun, stars or moon, it was hard to gauge distance or direction.
- Gauging a crowd, you know, gauging how people are reacting to your presence.
- So learning to gauge food volume is important.
- And so that's how you're going to gauge what to use.
- I want to talk a bit about overtraining and gauging recovery.
- And the TI Super to try and gauge value there.
- I think if I'm to gauge who won this whole situation, it's Logan Paul.
- I'm, I'm, I'm I'm trying to gauge how I feel going into this new venture.
- What is the experience been for you guys sharing the movie and watching, gauging like audience reactions to it?
- But here's maybe another way of saying it and gauging the extent of the difference.
- And then you can gauge for yourself quote.
- You're going to have to gauge is your business doing enough videos.
- So what whereabouts do you live gauging that?
Examples
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Without sun, stars or moon, it was hard to gauge distance or direction.
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Terry was standing at the edge of the creek as if gauging whether he could cross.
Fiction book (1995) -
Sometimes you really have to gauge the situation.
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So learning to gauge food volume is important.
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You have to gauge interest early for it.
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For example, practicing a song allows you to gauge your performance with each note.
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Living in Las Vegas, it was easy to gauge the temperature of the betting public.
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As adults, we use it often to gauge our monthly and yearly expenditures.
Academic text (2008) -
Students often follow discussions and gauge when to speak during conversations by using visual cues.
Academic text (2008) -
In order to plan the event effectively, we need to gauge how many guests will attend.
Synonyms
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2.5
To form an opinion about someone or something
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1.0
To form an opinion or estimate without enough information
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2.8
To make a rough calculation of how much or how many something is
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1.0
To find the size, amount, or strength of something
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4.3
To make a rough guess about a number or amount
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3.6
To take an exact amount using a cup, spoon, or ruler
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9.9
To measure the size of a person or thing
To measure how much, how big and how good something is
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.8
A device that measures how hard a gas or liquid pushes inside a system
- Specialized
1
6.8
A railway track with rails closer together than on a standard railway
- Specialized
1
3.5
The distance between the inside edges of two rails used by most railways
- Specialized
1
7.3
A tool that measures very small distances or thicknesses using a fine screw
- Specialized
1
7.7
A railway track with wider space between the rails than the standard track, allowing larger trains
- Specialized
A tool that measures rain using a float on the top of the collected water
- Specialized
An instrument with a pointed tool on an adjustable stand used to mark and check flat surfaces like metal plates
How Certain
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gauge comes from an old French word jauge meaning 'a measure'. So to gauge something is to find its size, amount, or quality.