English Dictionary

Last Updated ：2025/11/20

gauge

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

countable uncountable abbreviation alt-of ellipsis US broadly slang

Japanese Meaning

計量基準、測定の標準 / 寸法、距離、容量などを測定するための計器、測定器 / 測定行為、見積もり

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The company's quarterly earnings served as a reliable gauge of its financial health.

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会社の四半期ごとの収益は、その財務の健全性を測る信頼できる指標となった。

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Sense（1）

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

the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt

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Sense（2）

An act of measuring.

Sense（3）

An estimate.

Sense（4）

Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things

Sense（5）

A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.

Sense（6）

(rail transport) Ellipsis of track gauge..

Sense（7）

(rail transport) Ellipsis of loading gauge..

Sense（8）

(mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.

Sense（9）

(knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.

Sense（10）

(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.

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Sense（11）

(nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.

Sense（12）

(plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.

Sense（13）

Sense（14）

(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.

Sense（15）

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

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Sense（16）

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 […]

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Sense（17）

(slang, uncountable) 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. […]

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