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# {{cx|plastering|lang=en}} The quantity of [[plaster of Paris]] used with common [[plaster]] to make it [[set]] more quickly. |
# {{cx|plastering|lang=en}} The quantity of [[plaster of Paris]] used with common [[plaster]] to make it [[set]] more quickly. |
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# 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. |
# 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. |
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# {{context|firearms|lang=en}} 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. |
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# {{context|slang|lang=en|by extension}} A [[shotgun]] ([[synecdoche]] for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common [[chambering]] for combat and hunting shotguns). |
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#:{{quote-song|artist=Cypress Hill|title=Illusions|album=Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom|year=1996|passage=I'm tryin to find ways to cope / But I ain't fuckin' round with the '''gauge''' or a rope}} |
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#:{{quote-song|artist=Three 6 Mafia|title=Grab The Gauge|album=Underground Vol. 3: Kings of Memphis|year=2000|passage=It happens everyday don't make me grab the '''gauge''' / Dangerously I play, I best to kill with the '''gauge''' / And put ya body in the back of that grey Chevrolet}} |
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{{trans-top|a measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard}} |
{{trans-top|a measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard}} |
Revision as of 21:33, 30 July 2015
Englisch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) gage, (deprecated template usage) gaugen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ONF." is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (deprecated template usage) gauger (compare Modern (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French (deprecated template usage) jauger from Old French (deprecated template usage) jaugier), from (deprecated template usage) gauge, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *galga (“measuring rod, pole”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *galgô (“pole, stake, cross”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *g'hAlgh-, *g'hAlg- (“perch, long switch”). Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German (deprecated template usage) galgo, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Frisian (deprecated template usage) galga, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English ġealga (“cross-beam, gallows”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse (deprecated template usage) galgi, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse (deprecated template usage) gelgja.
Pronunciation
- enPR: gāj, (deprecated use of
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parameter)Audio (US): (file) - (deprecated use of
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parameter) Rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Nomen
gauge (plural gauges)
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence. p. 2.
- The record of philosophy vis-à-vis silence is generally dismal, as good a gauge as any to its overall failure.
- Burke
- the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt
- 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence. p. 2.
- An act of measuring.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
- (deprecated template usage) (rail transport) The distance between the rails of a railway.
- (deprecated template usage) (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- (deprecated template usage) (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- (deprecated template usage) (nautical) 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.
- (deprecated template usage) (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- (deprecated template usage) (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- 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.
- (deprecated template usage) (firearms) 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.
- (deprecated template usage) (slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
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Derived terms
- broad gauge
- Coulomb gauge
- gauge boson
- gauge field
- gauge theory
- lattice gauge theory
- Lorentz gauge
- narrow gauge
- quantum gauge theory
- rail gauge
- rain gauge
- standard gauge
- Weyl gauge
Verb
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- (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To estimate.
- (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- Shakespeare
- You shall not gauge me / By what we do to-night.
- Shakespeare
- (deprecated template usage) (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
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See also
References
- “gauge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Old French
Nomen
gauge oblique singular, f (oblique plural gauges, nominative singular gauge, nominative plural gauges)
- (deprecated use of
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parameter) Alternative form of jauge
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- English terms derived from Frankish
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/eɪdʒ
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Rail transportation
- en:Mathematics
- en:Mathematical analysis
- en:Knitting
- en:Nautical
- en:Firearms
- English slang
- English transitive verbs
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns