Usually measures. actions or procedures intended as a means to an end: to take measures to avert suspicion.
:a short rhythmical movement or arrangement, as in poetry or music.Compare meter.
:a particular kind of such arrangement.
:a metrical unit.
:Music. the music contained between two bar lines; bar.an air or melody.a slow, dignified dance.
:Printing. the width, measured in ems or picas, to which a column or page of printed matter is set.
:measures, Geology. beds; strata.
:Mathematics. an abstraction of the property of length; a set function assigning to each set of a collection of sets a value, usually having the properties of sigma finiteness and finite additivity, the functional value of the whole collection being greater than zero.
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meas·ured, meas·ur·ing.
:to ascertain the extent, dimensions, quantity, capacity, etc., of, especially by comparison with a standard: to measure boundaries.
:to mark off or deal out by way of measurement: to measure out two cups of flour.
:to estimate the relative amount, value, etc., of, by comparison with some standard: to measure the importance of an issue.
:to judge or appraise by comparison with something or someone else: to measure Corneille against Racine.
:to serve as the measure of: Her sacrifices measure the degree of her love.
:to adjust or proportion: to measure a portion to one's liking.
:to bring into comparison or competition: to measure one's strength with another's.
:to travel over; traverse: to measure a room with great strides.
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meas·ured, meas·ur·ing.
:to take measurements.
:to admit of measurement.
:to be of a specified measure.
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:measure up, to reach a certain standard: The exhibition didn't measure up to last year's.to be capable or qualified: As an administrator, he couldn't quite measure up.