English Dictionary

measure

/ˈmɛʒ.ə/

noun

(obsolete) Moderation, temperance. / A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.) / An (unspecified) portion or quantity.

He used a measure of caution when crossing the street.

意味（1）

(obsolete) Moderation, temperance.

I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished.

意味（2）

A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)

Full to the utmost measure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend.

意味（3）

An (unspecified) portion or quantity.

It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.

意味（4）

(now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.

a measure of salt

意味（5）

A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.

City were also the victors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as a measure of their progress against the 19-time champions.

意味（6）

Any of various standard units of capacity.

The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.

意味（7）

A unit of measurement.

The fragments shrank by increments of about three kilodaltons (a measure of molecular weight).

意味（8）

The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)

The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

意味（9）

(now rare) The act or process of measuring.

意味（10）

A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.

意味（11）

(mathematics, now rare) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor.

the greatest common measure of two or more numbers

意味（12）

(geology) A bed or stratum.

coal measures; lead measures

意味（13）

(mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.

意味（14）

(now archaic) A melody.

意味（15）

(now archaic) A dance.

He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar,— / Now tread we a measure! said young Lochinvar.

意味（16）

(poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.

a poem in iambic measure

意味（17）

(music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.

意味（18）

(in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.

The president said the measures involve a ban on all visitors to the country via all ports of entry who aren't residents or diplomats. El Salvadorans or residents who return to El Salvador will be quarantined for 30 days..

意味（19）

A piece of legislation.

The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.